Post 9- Dear AP Psych Student
What is your advice for students taking AP Psych in the future?
-PSYCH IS NOT THAT HARD. It's only hard if you have terrible time management, are lazy, believe it's a complete blow-off class, assume it's a free 100, or can't remember words for your life.
Honestly, if you just study, occasionally look at the powerpoint, and use her practice sets, you should be perfectly fine (fine as in you should probably get an A).
- The vocabulary that you learn this class is insane. If you think 300 words from Ms.Butz's English class is strenuous, you haven't seen this amount. I strongly recommend looking over the vocabulary everyday bit by bit, but the actual writing of this vocab, which is based on: drawing a picture and/or writing an real life example, defining the word and/or writing the def. in 5 words, I consider it optional. However, if you don't do this practice, as progressive tests start piling up your workload gets much larger and it gets harder to study because you don't have written notes previously taken by it. Then again, that's what other students quizlets are for!!
-USE QUIZLET TO YOUR ADVANTANGE! IT'S YOUR FRIEND. Other studentds including your teacher have already put up quizlets for you to look at.
What was your favorite activity or project?
My favorite activity or project was disecting the orange and placing pieces of candy into nooks and crannies of the orange to represent the different parts of our head.
What do you think I should leave out next year?
Rather than leave anything out (well maybe brain dumps) , I think it would be better if you revised your methods of teaching us (I DON'T MEAN THIS IN A BAD WAY)
an example would be-
-Goose Chase- While I'm physically active and enjoy running around the school, I could understand how such an activity is tedious. While I think the intention of the game is extremely amusing, which is to run around the school finding answers, I don't necessarily learn anything new from the game. This is due to everyone focusing on the time crunch and speeding their way to finish the game rather than understanding the curriculum behind it.
I think that if you gave a presentaiton the day before going over the words or ideas that will be introduced in the game, it would be a great review game. Rather than a learning game, a review game fits it much better because it's a game based on fast recolleciton of your past studies.
Do you have any suggestions or ideas for things I could do next year in AP Psych?
PRESENTATIONS AND NOTES!! The times I've learned the most in your class is when your up in the front explaining to us what the power points mean. When you're the one personally teaching I feel that's when the class understands the most.
***Rather than having the weekly brain dumps I feel you spending your time personally teaching us has a much greater effect, ***
because in all honesty, I can barely remember what's going on in the brain dump. And I understand that's WHY YOU DON'T WANT US SPLITTING THE WORK. However, we do it as a group (not all the time, but most times...) and even when we do, the kids that have a better ability in finding information end up carrying or doing all the heavy-lifting as the time crunch is still apparent with the 4 to 8 page packets of unknown information with 45 minutes, which causes students to focus on finishing the packets rather than learning.
Again there are surely students that will attest your brain dumps help them learn. But, I believe the vast majority of students have a hard time learning from these methods and games in comparison to you teaching the curriculum in the front of the class. Your games are wonderful, but they should be used as review tools rather than when we currently don't know the information yet.
HERE'S A LINK TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ON HOW TO STUDY PROPERLY CAUSE SCHOOL DOESN'T TEACH US THIS! - JUST CLICK THE TEXT
What is your advice for students taking AP Psych in the future?
-PSYCH IS NOT THAT HARD. It's only hard if you have terrible time management, are lazy, believe it's a complete blow-off class, assume it's a free 100, or can't remember words for your life.
Honestly, if you just study, occasionally look at the powerpoint, and use her practice sets, you should be perfectly fine (fine as in you should probably get an A).
- The vocabulary that you learn this class is insane. If you think 300 words from Ms.Butz's English class is strenuous, you haven't seen this amount. I strongly recommend looking over the vocabulary everyday bit by bit, but the actual writing of this vocab, which is based on: drawing a picture and/or writing an real life example, defining the word and/or writing the def. in 5 words, I consider it optional. However, if you don't do this practice, as progressive tests start piling up your workload gets much larger and it gets harder to study because you don't have written notes previously taken by it. Then again, that's what other students quizlets are for!!
-USE QUIZLET TO YOUR ADVANTANGE! IT'S YOUR FRIEND. Other studentds including your teacher have already put up quizlets for you to look at.
What was your favorite activity or project?
My favorite activity or project was disecting the orange and placing pieces of candy into nooks and crannies of the orange to represent the different parts of our head.
What do you think I should leave out next year?
Rather than leave anything out (well maybe brain dumps) , I think it would be better if you revised your methods of teaching us (I DON'T MEAN THIS IN A BAD WAY)
an example would be-
-Goose Chase- While I'm physically active and enjoy running around the school, I could understand how such an activity is tedious. While I think the intention of the game is extremely amusing, which is to run around the school finding answers, I don't necessarily learn anything new from the game. This is due to everyone focusing on the time crunch and speeding their way to finish the game rather than understanding the curriculum behind it.
I think that if you gave a presentaiton the day before going over the words or ideas that will be introduced in the game, it would be a great review game. Rather than a learning game, a review game fits it much better because it's a game based on fast recolleciton of your past studies.
Do you have any suggestions or ideas for things I could do next year in AP Psych?
PRESENTATIONS AND NOTES!! The times I've learned the most in your class is when your up in the front explaining to us what the power points mean. When you're the one personally teaching I feel that's when the class understands the most.
***Rather than having the weekly brain dumps I feel you spending your time personally teaching us has a much greater effect, ***
because in all honesty, I can barely remember what's going on in the brain dump. And I understand that's WHY YOU DON'T WANT US SPLITTING THE WORK. However, we do it as a group (not all the time, but most times...) and even when we do, the kids that have a better ability in finding information end up carrying or doing all the heavy-lifting as the time crunch is still apparent with the 4 to 8 page packets of unknown information with 45 minutes, which causes students to focus on finishing the packets rather than learning.
Again there are surely students that will attest your brain dumps help them learn. But, I believe the vast majority of students have a hard time learning from these methods and games in comparison to you teaching the curriculum in the front of the class. Your games are wonderful, but they should be used as review tools rather than when we currently don't know the information yet.
HERE'S A LINK TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ON HOW TO STUDY PROPERLY CAUSE SCHOOL DOESN'T TEACH US THIS! - JUST CLICK THE TEXT
MISS HALFEN! IF YOU READ THIS, CAN YOU SEND ME AN EMAIL? I really want to know your opinions on my opinions!
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