Learning Foundations: Learning How to Learning 

Too often, students are expected to function, compete, achieve and excel without the tools and skills they need.  

You do not need to be a “poor” student to benefit from this program of instruction. But neither do you need to be in school to be a student. This is a course in doing all the things I wish someone would have taught me about working and performing in school before I got to college, including how to:

  • Organize self, time and work               

  • Take effective, meaningful notes

  • Listen more effectively and get more out of classes

  • Study more effectively for tests          

  • Read more effectively and quickly

  • Maximize comprehension and memory

  • Study with maximum results             

  • Focus Attention more powerfully and effectively            

  • Reduce anxiety

 

 

““In only a short time with this stuff, I feel like I’m learning in an entirely different way — I enjoy it, I spend less time, and the really big thing: I have very little anxiety about tests.  Or at least, a lot less than I used to have, even as I’m consistently getting the highest grades in class.  I want to spread the word to everyone I know.””
— 1st year graduate student in Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Some Student Mindmaps

Hand-drawn mind map of bacterial classifications, showing connections between different types like Proteobacteria and Gram-positive bacteria, with notes and subcategories in various colored circles and lines.
Handwritten notes and diagrams on skeletal system functions and bone growth, including sections on bone cells, types of bone, and ossification processes.
Large paper sheet with handwritten notes and diagrams on skeletal and muscular systems, lying on wooden floor next to a box of toys.
Handwritten notes on domains of life, including details on bacteria, archaea, algae, fungi, protozoa, viruses, viroids, and prions. Includes a section on Vital Force Theory and Koch's Postulates with related diagrams and text.