Fully updated to include new material on: · Information Literacy · Online Learning · Reading Across the Disciplines · Memory and Brain-based Learning · Learning Preferences · Emotional Intelligence And more! New Coverage NEW! Life skills covered in the context of academic skills or Academic preparation. Growing numbers of students are entering college without adequate academic skills. Currently, the numbers requiring remediation are high and climbing -- 2.5 million students are taking remedial math and 1.5 million are taking remedial English in the first year of college. Chapter 3 on Resource Management pairs Time and Money management-two of students'' greatest concerns. Poor management in either of these areas is a leading reason for stopping out or leaving college altogether. Chapter 4 on goal setting and achievement now covers group goals.
The importance of teamwork, cross-cultural, and communication skills are covered in that context instead of being treated separately in a late chapter in the text. NEW! Improved, and more integrated, theme reinforces Habits that promote success. Many students do not have or use basic habits -- persisting, managing impulses, precise and clear communication -- that could support their success in the classroom as well as in the workplace. To help students jumpstart their college career, the text incorporates a set of competencies, or "Habits for Success," which strengthen their ability to manage time, relate with others, think critically, and take responsibility for learning. This edition, based on reviewer and student feedback, makes the Habits for Success more accessible, applied, and integrated. · New! Chapter 1 provides a walk-through of the process of building a habit. · Revised! Each chapter offers four opportunities to practice that chapter''s Habit. · New! Three end-of-part exercises ask students to practice putting a habit to use and then assess their progress over the term.
· New! A Habits-based self-assessment opens and closes the text. NEW! More coverage of Self-management skills (time and money). Two of the most significant reasons why students drop out are poor time management and money problems (many of which come from the inability to manage a budget and/or solicit financial aid). Students need to tackle these issues head-on when they enter school. These issues are especially crucial in the current economic downturn, which significantly affects many of these students and their schools. NEW! More extensive reading, memory, and test coverage. The reading material is now covered in two chapters. The first chapter focuses on comprehension, SQ3R, reading print and online materials, and taking text notes.
The second reading chapter highlights cross-disciplinary reading. Memory now has its own chapter, with expanded coverage of how memory works (with new material on brain based learning) and how it relates to test preparation. Test taking has become two chapters as well, with the first focused on test preparation and objective tests and the second on subjective tests and group projects. New and Revised Features and Exercises NEW! Real People. This feature is a case based on a real person who has put the chapter''s Habit for Success to use. Thought questions engage readers to think more deeply about the situation and how to relate it to themselves. For added interest, a brief description of a well-known person who has also applied this Habit appears at the end of the feature. NEW! By the way.
Several times in each chapter, the authors "interrupt" to bring students an interesting fact about college and student life to keep them engaged. NEW! Inside Tips. New this edition, each chapter will feature an "Inside Tip" from one of the three authors. Carol will focus on careers, Joyce on technology, and Sarah on self-management. Strengthened Exercises Help You Own Information NEW! Test Prep: Start It Now!" Exercise. In addition to the end-of-chapter critical-thinking and teamwork exercises, the authors included a "Test Prep: Start It Now" exercise to build the success habits involved with test preparation skills. Find out how preparing for tests starts on the first day of class. NEW! Self-assessments.
These self-assessments appear once or twice per chapter, within the chapter text -- giving you a chance to build self- awareness about the chapter topic and learn more about how you think. Revised! Take Action. As with the previous edition, these in-text exercises allow you to apply your learning immediately. They have been revised to reach different types of learners. Each exercise has students rely on at least two types of intelligences. Revised! Note the Important Points. The chapter summary is a set of guided notes with questions that hit on high points of each of the chapter topics. This exercise builds your ability to summarize text information.
Extensive Instructor Teaching Resources/Supplements Package · Offers a full array of teaching materials to feel confident and prepared for class, including instructor''s manual, test bank, PowerPoint, video library, and more! · The Habits for Success theme is completely integrated in all the supplements---the Instructor''s Manual give tips for teaching the habits, the Test Item File assesses the habits, the PowerPoints include slides on the habits. Seminars and Services for Faculty · Course Consulting Service-- Provides professors with author written course advice based on their classroom teaching and learning experiences. Authors are also available to answer questions via their email addresses: Dr. Joyce Bishop - jbishop@gwc.cccd.edu or Carol J. Carter - caroljcarter@lifebound.com, or toll free at 877-737-8510.
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