Every page in Study for Success is designed to help you. You will become confident as you work with new subjects, homework, exams, schedules and projects. Based on scientific research and successfully used with middle and high school students, you can learn the tools that you need for mastery, success and with less stress. Learning how to study teaches life-long skills. This book fits perfectly with the maxim Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. You can take Study for Success with you for high school, college, graduate school, and into your career because you will know how to master new materials.
Our society and therefore, our children, expect immediate results. They are told they are brilliant and gifted. So, what IS IT that happens as they begin to mature? Why doesn’t learning come easily, quickly verifying that the child is a genius? The answer lies in how a student studies. The term toddler means just that…a young child is learning how to walk. The number of times they fall is without number, yet they themselves get back up, determined to continue on. The same can be said about riding the first bicycle and learning how to swim-the child would never stop, the challenge is too much fun!
The student wanting to succeed in a class can have the same approach, a can do attitude, instead of the fear of failure. Working for mastery is NOT an impossible task; it is actually enjoyable and rewarding when the student follows the steps within Study for Success. Years after graduation students still return to Mrs. Lotz to say thank you for teaching them how to study.
Margaret Lotz has been a teacher for over 40 years, and she remains as passionate about her work now as when she first began. Graduating from California State University with honors, she was initiated into the honorary history society, Phi Alpha Theta. She then joined a masters program at the University of Wisconsin after which she began her teaching career. Margaret has been an administrator, designed award-winning curriculum, and taught in both public and private schools in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, southern California, and in the Monterey Bay area. She credits Dr. Roger Taylor’s work Curriculum Design for Excellence with much of her creativity in interdisciplinary teaching. Widely traveled and with an insatiable universe of interests, Margaret considers herself blessed beyond measure to be a teacher, mother and grandmother.
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OMNI Learning Center Educational Guides: Guide to Study for Success, Guide to Manners & Etiquette, Guide to Theater in the Classroom, Guide to Reading Comprehension Strategies.
