Study Skills
We are continuing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This article focuses on the EF skills of focus and self-control. What do “focus” and “self-control” mean? Focus is the ability to concentrate on one thing and ignore everything else (to an extent). Focus helps you stay on task or on […]
Executive Functioning Skills: Focus and Self-Control
With this post, we are continuing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This article focuses on the EF skills of organization and time management. What do “organization” and “time management” mean? When many people think of someone with executive functioning skills, they picture someone who is well organized and […]
Executive Functioning Skills: Organization and Time Management
We are continuing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This article focuses on the EF skill of cognitive flexibility. What does “cognitive flexibility” mean? Have you ever gotten stuck? Not literally, but stuck in the sense that you were moving right along when something unexpected happened that stopped you […]
Executive Functioning Skills: Cognitive Flexibility
In our last article in the series, we explained what executive functioning (EF) skills are. This article focuses on the EF skills of planning, prioritizing, and task initiation. What do “planning, prioritizing, and task initiation” mean? Planning refers to the ability to create a roadmap to reach a goal or achieve a […]
Executive Functioning Skills: Planning, Prioritizing, and Task Initiation
Maintaining a school-life balance is extremely important while you’re in college. You are obviously there to study and learn, but that should not take up all of your time. College is also about making new friends and being a part of something new, but again, these experiences should not make up your entire life. […]
How to Maintain a School-Life Balance
College is a time for both explorative and well-defined education. No matter where you go to school, you’ll have to complete a number of general education courses (e.g. math, science, English, and public speaking) and you’ll be given the option to take a number of elective courses of your choosing. Colleges require […]
Science vs. Arts Degrees: What’s the Difference and Does it Matter?
It can be distressing to think that a classmate doesn’t like you or that one of your friends isn’t as into your friendship as you are. It’s even more distressing to think that a teacher doesn’t like you or doesn’t want you to do well in their class, but it’s […]
What to Do When You Think Your Teacher Hates You
Un idioma no es algo fácil de obtener a la perfección; hay que estudiar mucho y para mejorar tus habilidades debes practicar lo oral y lo escrito. Hay algunas opciones para practicar la parte oral como ya te hemos contado en nuestro último artículo. Mientras una de ellas es hacer un […]
Libros y revistas en inglés para estudiantes de cada nivel
For high school and college students alike, getting a bad grade can cause disappointment, fear, anger, embarrassment, and grief. Those emotions are difficult enough to manage, but students who have to break the news to their families undergo additional anxiety. Talking to your parents about a bad grade is never […]
How to Talk to Your Parents about a Bad Grade
Some people are lucky enough to walk straight from college graduation into the next steps of their career (looking at you, doctors and lawyers), but others take a more meandering path. My path led me from college to the National Park Service, to a French bistro, to graduate school, and […]
Life Skills that Will Help You Both at School and in Your Career
Hay muchas cosas que, como profesor de lengua inglesa y también como estudiante de otro idioma, recomiendo a mis alumnos al aprender inglés. Uno de mis consejos es probar nuevas metodologías de adquisición de idioma y buscar los modos que más les ayuden a canalizar sus estudios, ya sea asistiendo […]
Las siete mejores aplicaciones para aprender inglés
Cheating can take many forms, from copying a friend’s homework to peeking at your neighbor’s answers while you’re taking a quiz to stealing the answers to the final exam from your teacher’s desk. You may let someone else copy your homework when they’re in a hurry (in which case you’re […]