High school teacher Madeline Beveridge has always been good at learning. So, she decided to create a resource to help high school students to become better learners.

Madeline said her downloadable six week study guide ‘Structuring Preparation for Examinations’ is perfect for students learning from home at the moment. 

Madeline, like many others, is now working from her Goonellabah home and teaching students at Xavier Catholic College. 

As she herself transitions from traditional teaching to a blended learning delivery mode, she is learning what works best for each class and adapting a teaching and learning style to suit different classes.

“Now that parents are getting more involved in home schooling, it’s important that they help their children to plan and adapt their days to allow more effective study and stress management,” she said. 

“My study guide has tips on how to structure a study session, and examples of planners to plan a whole week of learning and allocate time to them.

“It’s important to work out when is the best time for you to study. Is it morning? Then plan your day around that. 

“There’s good tips on setting goals and sections for students to reflect on assessment tasks by looking at feedback and then using that to plan and strengthen their performance in a subject.”

High school teacher Madeline Beveridge when she graduated from University.

Madeline said she was inspired to write the study guide after she completed her PhD in education and she discovered she was good at art.

“I enjoyed studying and found it easy and when I thought about what made me a good learner, it inspired my PhD which looked at developing people’s learning skills,” she said.

“After my PhD, I felt there was a gap in what we teach, after speaking to students about it. We needed to have less focus on content, and more support for students’ learning across subjects.

“They wanted to know ‘how do I manage exams?’ or ‘what do I study for two hours a night?’

“So, I combined my PhD with my love of creativity and art to write the study guide and made it visually clean and aesthetically pleasing – it even has plant drawings which can be coloured in.”

Madeline said that parents had already been buying it for their own children or nieces or nephews. The study guide costs $9.95 as a digital download, which can be printed at home.  

To access the guide, visit https://www.madelinebevs.com/shop/six-week-study-guide