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Supporting Your Student During Finals Season
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📗 Supporting Your Student During Finals Season
As your student’s first semester comes to an end, they will need to manage: final examinations and projects, term papers, and special activities. A little bit of stress can help motivate students to study, but too much stress can be harmful. Will your student be proactive and prepared, or procrastinate and panic? Along with talented and committed Cabrini faculty and staff members, you can help your student use his or her strengths to achieve success!
Here are some tips you can share with your student as we approach finals week.
Suggest that your student:
1. Start preparing now: It’s never too early to plan for finals, set schedules for studying, organize notes and other materials, talk with faculty about any special concerns, and visit the Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) for extra support, like tutoring and academic counseling (time management, study skills, and other academic concerns).
2. Create and maintain a healthy routine: Some of the stress of finals is that a student’s normal schedule is interrupted. Suggest that your student work to maintain a healthy pattern of eating, sleeping, exercising, and relaxing.
3. Avoid “catastrophizing:" Help your student turn the negative self-talk into positive, motivating reminders like: “I can prepare well and I am able to complete this test.”
4. Speak with their faculty advisor: In addition to working one-on-one with faculty members teaching specific courses, your student has a faculty advisor. In the first semester of the first year, advisors are teaching your student COL 101 College Success Seminar. These advisors are already a part of your student’s life and are ready to address the concerns your student may have.
5. Establish a personal reward system for studying: In addition to taking small breaks when studying to refresh and revive, building in rewards—going to a movie, enjoying an ice cream sundae, bowling—for meeting study goals can be energizing.
6. Send your student supportive messages like “You can do it, we believe in you!” in emails, texts, phone conversations, and cards can be uplifting and can help your student remember how many people are rooting for them!