Welcome to school! Exciting days await you, and great teachers want you to have a great time learning in their classes. This page will help give you some tools that are needed to make your work a little easier. There will be

• templates that will assist in organization,
• ideas in quiz and test preparation,
• tips on how to do long-range planning,
• student procedures manual, and
• links to other pages on my website

Homework can be very daunting, but here's a Homework Survival Kit that enables you to have all your supplies in one place. This will keep you from being distracted in looking for supplies, as well as avoiding those last minute trips to the store, especially when the pressure to get that all-important term paper completed that is breathing down hard on you.

What about some of those big projects that teachers like to give? Some teachers especially like working over a longer period of time. In my classes, I provided you a research schedule that has all the dates filled in when certain parts are due. But what about that teacher who doesn't? This long-range planner will allow you to fill in dates and help you get the big picture so that you can work with a lot less pressure and concentrate more on getting that elusive "A".

And as long as you're working toward that "A", be sure to check out the Proofreading Checklist, chock full of things teachers happen to look for when grading major projects. If you are going to do your best, make it count by looking at the small details, too. It's the small areas that distinguish an excellent grade (like that "A"), or getting it bumped down to a B or C.

I mentioned all these areas to my students, but it still surprised me when they just didn't seem to listen and think that this applies to everyone else except them! Because I'm still a details-oriented person, I notice when individuals don't look as closely as they could (or should). The long-range planner and the Proofreading Checklist work "hand-in-glove" to complete an intense process. Use them carefully and both of them can be your very best friend. When it's all said and done, you do want to look good, don't you?

There are also times in which you need to be prepared for those quizzes and tests, too. The textbook study checklist will help you to organize your thoughts into a systematic fashion, and go into the quiz or test period with confidence that you can and will do well.

You may have also seen my Student Procedures Manuals listed in the Teachers seaction of my website. However, if you'd like to have another copy for your notebook, that also available right here on this page. But may I pass along a helpful word? Don't lose handouts that your teachers give to you! They have taken the time to prepare these for you, and you don't want to look like a lazy slacker when your teacher asks you to get it out, and you either can't find it readily, or have simply lost it. That's not good, and it has a tendency to make teachers wonder if you are really serious about making a good grade in their class, or if you're simply wasting their time. At any rate, you want to look good and be a good student in all that you do, no matter what the class may be.