READY, GO, TIME FOR SOME TARTS – DONE!

WHEN I'M READING, I cannot sit there for hours and simply just read. The information does not seep in to my brain; it goes in one ear and out the other. So when I’m reading a chapter, it is essential for me to take some form of notes. I used to always just read a chapter or parts from a book and be done. However, the TART and Ready, Go, Done techniques have helped truly understand and remember the information I read. Although both strategies work well on their own, I find it helpful to combine the two. In my PSC 121 class, the chapter and lecture are very important sources. These two strategies help to incorporate the lecture information with the text. TART is useful during lecture. Prior to class I always highlight important terms and TART requires you to create abbreviations, they help you become more familiar with them.

AFTER THE LECTURE, you create test questions with the terms. This helped me because not only was I familiar with the terms before class, but also I was able to ask myself questions that could potentially be on the next exam. The only main difference between TART and Ready, Go, Done is that RGD requires a graphic organizer. With my test questions that I created from TART I then created a graphic organizer with one of the topics I was struggling with.

L A M E

These two strategies helped me understand the reading more because I am the type of Learner who needs to constantly reiterate information. The Action I took with these strategies was combining them because for this specific class, PSC 121, the lecture and text complement each other. By having to reiterate the info from the lecture and the text, I am able to truly understand the topics. The Materials are term lists, test questions and graphic organizers. With the highlighted notes and readings from lectures, these 3 things are easy to create. My Evaluation of this strategy is very positive. I was having a tough time with the “Culture Wars” section in one of the chapters. But by making a graphic organizer and re-reading highlighted words constantly, the info is in my brain!