This is very true - we don't realize how role modeling is a tool.  Others learn so much from us, just by watching what we do.

Thanks for sharing your expertise here, geline!

There are a list of books that help teach students how to study from Jr. High thru College - a set of books for each grade level, including home school and adults who return to college. It's at slssystem.com  It's worth looking over.

I usally teach study skills in my first tutoring lessons.  What I first do is go over different note taking ideas.

The first thing I tell my students for taking notes is to have a seperate folder, binder, etc.  for each subject and make sure that subject is labeled and not to mix up any other subjects in that binder, folder, or whatever.

I then tell them to make a Table of Contents page for each subject and make sure that is their first page in their notes.  I then tell them to number each page of notes and to date the first page of notes for each day of school.  So, if they took three pages of notes on the first day of class, page 2 would state the date and pages 2-4 would be numbered.

The final thing I tell my students is to put in their Table of contents the date on the far left of when they took notes, and on the far right the page numbers of their notes, and in the middle all subjects covered in their notes that day.  That way the student can easily reference back to a particular subject area without having to look all over their notes for a tiny piece of information.

I then tell them how to study the notes that they took.  I tell them first to bracket off any areas that they do not know.  That way when they look over the notes they will not look at the areas they already know.  I then tell them the second time they go through their notes and put a symbol such as a * or @ by what they do not have down into their memory.  I then tell them to keep on doing this coming up with new symbols by the notes they do not know.  This way they never re-read anything that they already know.  Everything they are studying is stuff that they do not know and this also reduces study time and usually increases grades.

I am doing a research project on the effectiveness of teaching study skills (to middle school children specifically).  Does anyone know of some good studies or research that has been done on effectiveness?
Thanks

yes but what if you are tutoring someone who well not listen to what you say and trys to miss lead you