Student's Guide: Strategies for Curiosity and Competence in Education

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a student's approach to fostering curiosity and competence in higher education. It begins with an introduction to the concept of creative learning and its importance. The main body of the report details the student's core learning abilities, specifically focusing on communication and collaboration, and the strategies employed to enhance these skills. It also identifies core study skills like time management and stress management, outlining the strategies used to improve them. The report emphasizes the importance of active listening, positive body language, and thoughtful communication. Furthermore, it explores the use of to-do lists, task prioritization, and breaks to manage time and reduce stress. The report concludes by summarizing the key points and referencing relevant books and journals. The student's journey highlights the importance of self-awareness, strategic planning, and continuous improvement in achieving academic success and overall personal development.

A students guide to being
curious and competent

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
The core learning ability you feel assured in and the reason why you feel confident for it........1
The strategies used to built the effective commination and the collaborative skills. .................1
Core study skills need to acquire in me and why ........................................................................2
Strategies I will used to develop my stress and time management .............................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Learning is the action used by the individual to gain the improved understanding or the
knowledge as it will have the affirmative reflect on the individuals behaviour, attitude or the
though process. When accomplished, it might helps the individual to alter their potential or the
productivity in the growing manner. Creative learning is basically the action performed to
learned the new actions or the skills with the usage of different techniques rather than just
garbing the theoretical knowledge. However, this project report primarily covers on the standing
of creative learning in the students studying or the higher education. Role of core study skills and
their different ways are carry through in this project report (Grossman, 2021).
MAIN BODY
The core learning ability you feel assured in and the reason why you feel confident for it.
The core study that I have is communication and the collaboration. Effective
communication is basically exchanging the opinions, thoughts or the ideas to other person
regardless of their judgements or the comments. This communication is build on the trust ground
initially which is further locomote for the development of the empathy or the true respect for
each other. This also act as a base for developing the cooperative relationship as it will support
the individual to reach the goals while working with other classmates in the effective manner
(Castro, and Tumibay, 2021).
I am confident while communicating with my classmates or the teachers as I always
make sure to actively listen my friends or educator view while maintaining the eye contact and
the smile during he sessions. Whenever, I have doubts I asked them in steady rate to ensure that
they understand my view in proper manner. I never interrupt in between the lectures and try t
clear my views by delivery the accurate opinions or doubts without having the fear of being
mocked or teased by others. Confidence carry through when I communicate as I try to built a
strong relation with others wile having the polite tine and the positive opinions (Supianti and et.
al., 2022).
The strategies used to built the effective commination and the collaborative skills.
Effective communication helps the individual student to accomplished the success in
diverse phase in their life. When being the learner, effective communication enhances my
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productivity in acquiring knowledge and building the relationship with other classmates.
Strategies I have used to build the effective communication skills are :
 Actively listen – I always ensure to listen the teacher perspective or thought in the right
manner to avoid the worsen understanding of their opinions which might create the
misunderstanding. Also make sure that talk to one at a time so as to make the speaker
believe that their thoughts matters to me.
 Developing the body language – Body language is very important when connecting to
one in face-to face. My this nature supports me to built the relationship with the other
classmates and the educator in the trustful mode. Positive body language support my
mind to engage in the class lectures as my attitude and expression accelerates my
thought process. However, it will support to active listen and learn. When having
conversation with the others in polite and smile it will also revert the same response by
others (Mowafi, Abumuhfouz and Redifer, 2019).
 Evaluate before saying – when delivery your view first think what actually you want to
deliver and the way you are delivering is bring out the same meaning or not. This habit
of mine has helped me to deliver the compact and purposeful conversation with the
others. As through this I have learned to value everyone time.
Core study skills need to acquire in me and why
Core study skills that is need to be develop in me is time management and the forth
coming stress with the modify academic instance. When I am not able to complete my projects
or the workload on time, tier is increase is amount of tension which accelerates the strain in my
health and its is also seen sometimes in my mental and physical well-being. While developing
the time management skill, I will be able to accomplish the academic success in the wise manner.
I will not be only involved in the academics as my work will be completed on time so I can have
time to make new friends and learn new activities with them. It will also accelerate my focus as I
will not have the on going stress of pending assignments and the distraction I face during my
study hours. My stress will be overcome which will also inherit back my regular sleeping and
mind will also be relaxed (Silber‐Varod, Eshet‐Alkalai and Geri, 2019).
Strategies I will used to develop my stress and time management
To develop my effectiveness I might begin creating the to do list daily so as to analyse
what all task have to completed by today. It will provide me with the set of plan of a day and will
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divide my work into short assessment as big task creates the automatic anxiousness in mind. I
will focus in completing 1 task at a time so to be safer from the puzzle created. I can use the
break technique so as to increase my productiveness in a improved mode. However, by
accomplishing these all steps accurately will reduce the stress of life automatically but so as to
improve the mental health, I should start practising the meditation or just a walk so calm out my
mind. It will improve the blood circulation and helps to enhance the mood to.Integrate the
healthy meals will progress better learning (Turner, Hughes and Presland, 2020).
CONCLUSION
This project report covers about the different core study skills that are important in
student life. Project covers on my effective communication and collaborative skills which I have
acquire through utilizing different strategies. These strategies have supported me to achieve good
interaction with my teachers and friends. Other than this I have to learn the time management as
to overcome my stress as it will accelerate my overall development in effective manner.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Castro, M.D.B. and Tumibay, G.M., 2021. A literature review: efficacy of online learning
courses for higher education institution using meta-analysis. Education and Information
Technologies, 26(2), pp.1367-1385.
Grossman, P. ed., 2021. Teaching core practices in teacher education. Harvard Education Press.
Mowafi, Y., Abumuhfouz, I. and Redifer, J., 2019, August. A play-based interactive learning
approach for fostering counting and numbers learning skills for early childhood
education using QR codes mobile technologies. In International Conference on Mobile
Web and Intelligent Information Systems (pp. 16-26). Springer, Cham.
Silber‐Varod, V., Eshet‐Alkalai, Y. and Geri, N., 2019. Tracing research trends of 21st‐century
learning skills. British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(6), pp.3099-3118.
Supianti, I.I., Yaniawati, P., Ramadhan, A.G., Setyaji, M. and Puspitasari, P., 2022. Improving
Connection Ability and Mathematical Disposition of Junior High School Students with
Connecting, Organizing, Reflecting, Extending (CORE) Learning Model. Jurnal
Pendidikan Matematika, 16(2), pp.187-202.
Turner, K.L., Hughes, M. and Presland, K., 2020. Learning loss, a potential challenge for
transition to undergraduate study following COVID19 school disruption. Journal of
Chemical Education, 97(9), pp.3346-3352.
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