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Help your students brainstorm and/or revise for their personal statements/UC Personal Insight Questions. I built this resources from research and attending UC Personal Insight Question workshops.

How to create one pagers + tips & tricks!

Help your students be organized by consistently tracking and preparing for their personal statements and resumes. This doc is built from a compilation of sources to provide students with a breadth of topics to be able to include.

This is a master doc for students to research universities they're interested in. It takes into consideration everything from the admissions process to alumni outlook and concludes with students reflecting on the reasons they can and cannot see themselves attending here. I attach this doc as an assignment on Google Classroom, so that each student can edit directly. I also have my students add the Doc to a folder on their Google Drive labeled "College" where they store all things college related

Have students keep a running list of feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts for each historical figure and others affecting them. This will help them understand each figure on a deeper level by having them select the most significant info, provide an efficient study tool, and help them on exams by making educated guesses based on their deep understanding of historical figures. For IB History, my students complete this for each US president we study, and it’s kept in their interactive notebook

VST is a tool to help students break down prompts and remain relevant to the question being asked. V: Verb {what the prompt asks you to do} S: Skill {definition of the verb} T: Topic {key words from the prompt} Included in this Google Slides: 1. Directions for VST 2. Prompt outlines for the following verbs: analyze, discuss, examine, explain, how, why, compare and contrast, evaluate, to what extent 3. An outline of how to combine with the CER writing structure is also included This is a Google S

Use this system to track your students' accomplishments, so that when Letter of Rec season comes around, it's easy to transfer into a written doc. Tip & Trick: set a reminder in your phone to update once per month

Add this tool to your study guide to help your students effectively answer their study guide and narrow their focus of study to create an efficient study system.

A fun way to have your students review for a unit test or final by encouraging them to critically select the most significant terms and concepts. I have my students complete this in groups and then after collecting all of the responses, I turn it into a Google Forms. Students then vote for the MOST significant of all the provided terms/concepts for each letter.

Learn what the Ladder of Inference is and how to NOT climb it. This is a great tool for mental well-being and emotional intelligence.

Use this worksheet to guide students in using their time more effectively. Starting big projects is the hardest part, so accomplishing small parts in small amounts of time adds up in a great way!

Track your habits to focus on self-care and self-improvement.

Includes: 1. Overall Plan All classes tracker one pagerE-mail tracker system2. Weekly Plan Goal-settingPrioritized to do list {Container-gy}Hour by hour schedule3. Table of contents for easy navigation 4. Google Drive directions/how to

Template to track happy moments! Short-term benefit: focus on the positive Long-term benefit: have something to look back at when you're having a tough day

Help students adapt to distance learning by determining what system will work best for them with online learning at home.