190: 12 Skills We assume Students Know (But They Don’t)




The College Prep Podcast show

Summary: There are some basic life and school skills that adults assume teens know how to do — but they really don’t!<br> Gretchen and Megan break down 12 seemingly simply skills they’ve observed in their practices and urge their adult listeners to support students in learning how to do these things.<br> Tune in as they tell stories about how they discovered students don’t know how to:<br> <br> * set the time in their alarm clock<br> * study skillfully for tests<br> * work with “to do” lists<br> * take decent notes<br> * make an outline<br> * clean out an email inbox<br> * organize files on the computer<br> * title computer documents in a way they can be found again<br> * use a digital calendar<br> * follow the rules of plagiarism<br> * approach reading a difficult book without overwhelm<br> * visualize what day-to-day life in college is like.<br> <br>