University of Phoenix Material Tyrell Taylor
US/101
August 19, 2013

Effective Study Habits Worksheet

Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each:

1. Describe your ideal study environment.

My ideal study environment would be at home at my work desk. Without my kids of course because I can not study with them asking me 101 questions every couple of seconds. I do work and study better with some background noise, maybe the television or radio playing. A computer on hand and my phone just incase I need to call and ask someone a questions if it pertains to my studies.

2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom.

Some things that would distract me are my kids, phone calls, people knocking at my door or my dog barking outside. Text messages are a huge distraction for me because I am glued to my phone. I am a social media person Facebook use to be one of my biggest addictions but I have slowly let go of Facebook. I am only on occasionally each day. Work is a big distraction too, only because I work five days a week and my hours are very odd afternoon to late evenings. I feel as if I never have time to get anything don’t in the mornings and after work I am usually very tired so I eat and go to bed. That is going to be my biggest struggle.

3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions?

Well school for my kids is about to start in a week or so, so that will take them out of the equation. I will be up every morning with them so I will have time to do my school work before I have to go to work. My phone I will just have to put it away for a while and just check it every so often incase there is an emergency and I need to go. Facebook is nothing to worry about right now I am managing my Facebook time wisely already. As far as my work, I will do my best to do my school work before I have to go to work so I do not have to worry and stress about coming home to do school work.

4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal Learning style affect your study habits?

My personal learning style is usually hands on because I am a quick learner so that will be hard to apply that to my school studies. My personal learning style affects my studies by me not being able to have someone show me how to do something or tell me how to do it. I can pick up quick but when I do it by myself I find myself reading things over and over again to make sure I am doing my work right which has been wasting time. I don’t think there is anything wrong with double checking my work as long as I can turn it in on time.

5. List 5 effective study strategies from this week that you will use. Explain why you selected them and why they are effective strategies for online learning. The five effective study strategies I have chosen are my top five from the analysis and they are: interpersonal, naturalistic, visual, body, and logic. Interpersonal is when you study in groups, share information with others, and teaching other the information which does have to do with the online learning environment. Naturalistic is studying outside, labeling the information, or keeping each topic separate; which I do for each class. Visual is when I create a mental picture in my mind when I am trying to understand the information at hand. If I can see it then it does help me understand the information better. Body is when you do not confine yourself to one place to work or study. I usually study at my desk at home but I can never sit still so I end up getting out of my chair more than studying. I will use this to take the time to go outside and study in my garden with my laptop or on my front porch since my neighborhood is pretty quiet. The last one I chose is logic. Math is my favorite subject and I find it easier than anything else. I do catch myself making charts for a lot of things I do at home so why not use charts or diagrams for my studies too.

6. Identify one change you can make immediately to increase the effectiveness of your study habits. Explain how this will help you become more effective.

The one change that I can make right now to increase the effectiveness of my studies would be having the internet at home. I just finally had the internet fixed at my house and I will now be able to take my laptop and do my studies where ever and when ever I can while I am home. When I wake up each morning I run six miles and then I can sit and study before work.

7. How does your personal learning style relate to your ideal workplace and your personal work competencies?

My personal learning style relates to my ideal work place and competencies by me being able to show people hands on how to do certain things. Being able to teach them the information they will need to do their job. At my job now I am a contracted employee and I can teach their employees how to do their job because I have been watching them for two and a half years now. I ask questions all the time to figure out how to do different things and how I should handle different situations.

8. How is understanding your ideal learning environment applicable to selecting your ideal workplace?

I think this plays an important role when thinking about your ideal work place. For me if I were to work in a place where I had to read manuals to figure out how to do my job I would not make it very far. Many people are accustomed to someone telling them and showing them how to do their job. Sometimes it takes a couple hours of training or a couple days of training. Reading a manual could take a while and then if you have a question about something you would have to go back to the manual to figure it out, but it would be easier if you had someone there with you to answer all your questions. I think having someone there with you makes it easier when you are just learning a new job.