Academics

• Have a positive attitude and stay motivated
• Stay engaged during instruction, follow along with your teacher during live demonstrations.
• Practice active listening: listen with a purpose, ask clarifying questions, and take notes
• Use comments within your code to take notes directly within your code.
• Manage your time wisely by staying focused and engaged during class

• Utilize notes from instruction and credible online resources to assist you. 
• In order to learn, you must do. For each assignment is a learning opportunity.
• Perseverance is critical. You will encounter difficulties with new concepts and skills.
• Celebrate mistakes, these are opportunities to grow and learn
• Test and Compile in increments.
• There is a clear distinction between collaboration and plagiarism.
• Learn constantly within and outside of the classroom: have your own “passion project” that you can apply the skills you are learning.

• Utilize your notes, quizzes, videos, and handouts to help you study for a test. Pay special attention to the learning objectives shared by the teacher.
• Attend study and review sessions, even if they are optional.
• Create a study group with your peers. Work together to make study guides and practice tests. If this is not possible, use quizzes and graded work to create your own practice test.
• Get a good night’s sleep, eat breakfast, and arrive on time.

• Approach learning with a positive attitude and all necessary supplies. 
• If instruction is online, use headphones and make sure you are only focused on the video. Multi-tasking will not help in the learning process.
• Take notes and highlight areas of confusion in order to remember to ask for help.
• If instruction is face-to-face, be engaged and participate in constructive discussions with your peers. Ask questions if you are confused and make connections to prior learning whenever possible.

• Complete assigned work in a timely manner, leaving time to ask questions in case of confusion. 
• Utilize your notes from instruction. They will help you remember new learning and increase comprehension on tough material. 
• Submitted work should be produced at the best of your abilities, revised and edited to reflect critical thinking and background knowledge. 
• If there is room for improvement, work hard to learn from setbacks and make revisions until you get it right.

• Utilize your notes, quizzes, videos, and handouts to help you study for a test. Pay special attention to the learning objectives shared by the teacher.
• Attend study and review sessions, even if they are optional.
• Create a study group with your peers. Work together to make study guides and practice tests. If this is not possible, use quizzes and graded work to create your own practice test.
• Get a good night’s sleep, eat breakfast, and arrive on time.

• If the instruction is online, use headphones so you can hear, see, and write. This combination will help the concept ‘sink in’.
• As you take notes, put a ? beside things that seem confusing, then ask for help.
• After you take notes on a topic, write a summary of the steps, rules, or guidelines. Make sure you use words that are meaningful to you.  Highlight the summary in your notes (color, box it, etc.)

• Don’t skip the problems that are difficult for you. These are the problems you should be doing!
• Use your notes and the examples as guidelines to complete the practice problems.
• If there is a way to check your work, do it so you will know if you are getting the correct answer.
• If you don’t understand how to complete the problem or you make a mistake, put a ?, then ask for help.
• Always fix mistakes.
• If you make several mistakes, keep practicing the same type of problem until your confidence grows.
• If you need additional practice problems, use the resources your teacher provides, or ask a teacher to give you additional problems that are specific to what you need to practice.

• As you practice, create a practice test for yourself in another section of your notebook. Make sure to include all types of problems.   Use the problems you made mistakes with.   Write the answers to each problem on the back of the paper.
• Before a quiz or a test, review your highlighted notes.
• Take your personalized practice test 2 days before the test. This will help lessen your anxiety and raise your confidence level.
  • Put yourself in a real testing situation: no phone, no distractions, time limit. 

Grade yourself.  If you need additional problems to practice ask your teacher.

• Take notes digitally or by hand
• Listen, think, ask questions!

• Actively take notes during virtual instruction.
• Annotate notes to highlight keywords, identify questions, and draw connections
• Use headphones to minimize distractions
• Put information in your own words (don’t copy and paste)

• Look back to your notes
• Review using online study aid (Ex. Quizlet, Quizizz)

• Complete assigned work in a timely manner, leaving time to ask questions in case of confusion. 
• Utilize your notes from instruction. They will help you remember new learning and increase comprehension on tough material. 
• Submitted work should be produced at the best of your abilities, revised and edited to reflect critical thinking and background knowledge. 
• If there is room for improvement, work hard to learn from setbacks and make revisions until you get it right.

• Utilize your notes, quizzes, videos, and handouts to help you study for a test. Pay special attention to the learning objectives shared by the teacher.
• Attend study and review sessions, even if they are optional.
• Create a study group with your peers. Work together to make study guides and practice tests. If this is not possible, use quizzes and graded work to create your own practice test.
• Get a good night’s sleep, eat breakfast, and arrive on time.