Study Skills Workshop

Bree helps students develop their study skills and learn how to “study smarter, not harder” by starting with a study skills baseline survey and then focusing on the following areas in her Study Skills Workshop:

  • Rules and Tools for Success: Learn how to manage your time, develop organizational systems, and cultivate interpersonal skills
  • Skill Building: Learn how to employ active reading and annotating strategies alongside effective note taking and outlining practices, and vocabulary building strategies
  • Retention and Performance: Learn how to study and process information to make it stick, plus effective multiple choice test-taking techniques
  • Goal Setting: Learn how to set and achieve your goals

Format: 4-hour workshop that covers Rules and Tools for Success, Skill Building, Retention and Performance, and Goal Setting. If you prefer to schedule one topic-only, rather than the complete workshop, we can arrange one-hour study skills private lessons on any of the four aforementioned areas.

Availability: Group Study Skills Workshops are offered throughout the year and can also be booked on demand; either privately or via new group formation. Please email Bree at KoziAcademy@gmail.com Copy to Clipboard with any study skills inquiries.

The Importance of Study Skills

While students are often told to “study smarter, not harder,” many students struggle with study skills; they either don’t know where to start or the results they’re getting do not reflect their substantial efforts and they don’t know why. While there’s no silver bullet, Bree’s study skills lessons and workshops provide students with a comprehensive approach to improving their ability to learn more effectively.

Ideally, developing and applying a robust set of study skills throughout middle and high school will help students excel at all stages of life and minimize stress along the way. Additionally, strong study skills can help students avoid remediation and frustration and graduate from college.

  • Teens report higher stress than ever before with grades, homework, and preparing for college listed as the greatest sources of stress for both genders. (The American Psychological Association)
  • Beyond that, many students enter college underprepared and are forced to take remedial classes (which generally have the same tuition costs and structure as other college courses, but do not confer credit toward a degree).
  • More than 50 percent of students entering two-year colleges and nearly 20 percent of those entering four-year universities are placed in remedial classes. (Complete College America study)
  • Once admitted, the overall dropout rate for undergraduate college students is 40 percent, with approximately 30 percent of college freshmen dropping out before their sophomore year. (National Center for Education Statistics)