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"Develop an awareness of how you learn, or have learned best in the past. This will help you focus your energies in the most productive way, and alert you to areas where you may need help."


Study Skills for High School Students

  • Are you satisfied with your current study habits and the results they bring? Interested in learning techniques to help you get organized, manage your time and memorize more? Learn the skills and how to apply them in this interactive workshop. Prepared students perform better!

  • 1.5 to 3 hour workshops for students offered in schools or privately for small groups. Contact us or your school to arrange.

Exam Preparation for High School Students

  • Knowing how to study for exams is a skill that takes time to develop. When students are taught simple exam prep strategies and put them into practice, they can begin to take control of their learning, and become more engaged and creative with their approach to the course content.

  • 1.5 to 3 hour workshops that focus on building exam skills and applying them in a practical way. Students learn how to: Overcome Exam Anxiety; Organize for Studying; Prepare for Exams; Approach Different Question Types. Workshop offered in schools or privately for small groups. Contact us or your school to arrange.

Study Skills for Middle School Parents & Students

  • Homework and studying can sometimes become a battlefield at home. Workshop topics include: creating a supportive study environment, effective sudy skills and strategies, creating homework guidelines, communicating about homework.

  • 1.5 workshop - parents and students learn separately then come together to practice their new skills. Workshop offered in schools. Contact us or your school to arrange.

Other Workshops

Peer Tutor Presentations
Presentations to Peer Tutor groups are interactive and consider the needs of peer tutors. These presentations are offered for free by Smart Tutor Referrals as a way of giving to the community: supporting schools, students and peer tutors. Topics include: Effective Listening, Memory Techniques, Exam Preparation

Professional Development for Teachers: Preparing Students for Provincial Exams,
2-hour workshop providing an overview of how to prepare students for provincial exams. Teachers consider the students' perspective and learn techniques for helping students organize. Interactive and active exercises lead teachers through sample lessons that they can present to their students. Topics Covered: Students' key issues with exams; Addressing fears; Demystifying exams; Helping students to organize (materials/time); Tips for memorizing & approach exam questions.

Some feedback from this workshop:
"Your presentations were very well organized - you must be teachers!"

"This handout is exactly what I'm looking for. Sometimes I work with students, pulling assignments out of lockers, and digging notes out of bags. This handout will be perfect for helping me to help my students get organized!"

Click here to read what teachers say students never ask about exams - from the May 2005 teacher professional development workshop on preparing students for exams.

Some Feedback from Workshop Participants:

“I learned how to achieve on exams and why it’s important to stay cool.”

“Now I understand that when you cram, you only remember the last and the first part of what you study.”

“This workshop taught me how to study way better and to organize.”

“Finally I know how to get rid of my anxieties!”