Study Skills for Adult Learners

This class has been developed in response to the requests from many of you who want to take advantage of the empowering new skills and insights from the latest in brain-based learning. For all who are learners or who want to support learners at a higher, more productive level, this is the course you have been waiting for.

The Stressless Tests® Method help students:

  • Identify their dominant, brain-determined, learning style
  • Discover how their learning style affects test-taking, focusing, subject-matter challenges, procrastination, organization, and more
  • Learn proven techniques and strategies to enhance learning style, engage more of their brain’s capabilities, build confidence, and improve performance
  • Incorporate new concrete behavior and skills into their everyday work, taking action to boost their academic standing

Topics Covered

  • Learning style assessment
  • Correlates of learning style and predictable academic challenges
  • Discovering and using new brain-based skills you didn’t know you have
  • Strengths and challenges of visual learners
  • Test taking skills
  • Focusing, concentration and memory and getting organized
  • Mastering long-term projects
  • Note taking
  • Top study strategies

Who Will Benefit From This Class?

All who want to understand brain-based learning styles as they apply to more effective and productive studying, including:

  • college students
  • parents of Stressless Tests® middle and high school students
  • returning college students
  • volunteer mentors
  • homeschool parents
  • tutors
  • adult learners with ADD
  • others – call to see if this will benefit your situation 

Class Format

The class will meet for three two-hour sessions. It will be stimulating and interactive, with plenty of opportunity for questions, discussions, and personal application of the material. All will benefit from the purposeful diversity of the class, ranging from parents who want to understand their children to volunteer mentors to adults enrolled in college classes.

Fee

The course fee of $135 includes all instruction, class materials and a copy of What’s My Style?

Private Sessions Available

For those who complete this course and desire more one-on-one support, private sessions are available. 

Changes and Refunds

The course fee applies only to cases in which the student takes the entire course as originally scheduled. For any changes in course dates, or for registration to make up classes missed (or that students expect to miss) there is a $20 fee. (This does not apply to changes due to school closings.)

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All requests for a refund must be made in writing and received at least 48 hours before the class. All refunds are subject to a $25 processing fee. Any credit extended for make up classes must be used before the end of the semester in which the student was originally enrolled.

Location

Burleigh Manor Middle School
4200 Centennial Lane
Ellicott City, MD 21042

Scheduled Classes

None scheduled at this time. Please sign up here to indicate your interest in a class and receive a notice when it will be held.


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Contact Information

Bcaldwell@comcast.net
(410) 740-4659