The Toolbox for Active Learners provides numerous study skills that will help you excel in all of your college courses. As you learn these new strategies, you'll have the opportunity to practice applying them to solve academic challenges. With improved critical and creative problem-solving, you'll be able to achieve greater success in all parts of your life.
Another self-assessment before and after the Toolbox for Active Learners will show you how much you've learned about being an effective learner. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
As you develop these skills, you'll find yourself making more effective choices and achieving greater success in college and in life. Miriam, a freshman Calculus student at Louisiana State University, made What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance.
For over a decade Saundra McGuire has been acclaimed for her presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning because the tools and strategies she shares have enabled faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success. This book encapsulates the model and ideas she has developed in the past fifteen years, ideas that are being adopted by an increasing number of faculty with considerable effect.
The methods she proposes do not require restructuring courses or an inordinate amount of time to teach. They can often be accomplished in a single session, transforming students from memorizers and regurgitators to students who begin to think critically and take responsibility for their own learning. Saundra McGuire takes the reader sequentially through the ideas and strategies that students need to understand and implement.
Next, she presents a specific study system that can quickly empower students to maximize their learning. She pays particular attention to academically unprepared students, noting that the strategies she offers for this particular population are equally beneficial for all students.
While stressing that there are many ways to teach effectively, and that readers can be flexible in picking and choosing among the strategies she presents, Saundra McGuire offers the reader a step-by-step process for delivering the key messages of the book to students in as little as 50 minutes. Free online supplements provide three slide sets and a sample video lecture.
This book is written primarily for faculty but will be equally useful for TAs, tutors, and learning center professionals. For readers with no background in education or cognitive psychology, the book avoids jargon and esoteric theory. Lesson 1: College is different from high school, and even those who were at the top of their class will need practical advice on how to successfully transition to college life. This updated and expanded third edition of College Rules! Because College Rules! A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with.
Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can help their kids master these skills as well. Now in this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying. We all have the tools to learn what might not seem to come naturally to us at first--the secret is to understand how the brain works so we can unlock its power. Featuring the essential learning strategies for becoming a better student, this book helps students learn how to prepare for class, develop textbook reading strategies, use effective note-taking techniques, strengthen their test-taking skills, and use technology effectively.
The new edition includes a dedicated chapter 12 entitled Using Technology, providing guidance on how students can use electronic tools to improve their study skills, conduct research and avoid plagiarism , and succeed in online courses. An Oxford Revision Course guide to Active Study Skills This short introduction to active study skills is built on many years of experience as a study skills coordinator and tutor. Designed with the student in mind, each chapter addresses common study skills problems and offers quick and creative solutions.
Dealing with time management, setting goals, making good notes and creative techniques to improve study. With chapters on stress reduction and good exam preparation. Colin Murphy is a psychology teacher and study skills coordinator. He is passionate about finding creative solutions that will actually help students to learn in more effective manners.
Many of the techniques are tried and tested with his students to find what works best for them. Colin first became interested in study skills techniques when studying Psychology in University College Dublin in the 's. This book was built around the suggestions of his students about the most common problems that they had in study. At the heart of this book is the belief that study can and should be interesting and that creative approaches to study, working alongside traditional methods, produces better results.
Oxford Revision Course was set up to offer high quality and accessible education to as wide a group as possible, using the best tutors and running a series of courses for English-speaking and international students. Oxford Revision Course guides are designed to share the skills of these tutors to as large a group of people as we can.
They also link to top quality courses that help students achieve the best results. The guides are designed to be short and affordable. SMART Study Skills Christian School Edition will help any student become an independent learner, get better grades, prepare for any test or exam, and master memory strategies for any subject.
This book covers the whole spectrum of studying, from creating a SMART Study Plan to the process of evaluating the effectiveness of strategies. It is a must have for any student learning to study! Transferable Academic Skills Kit American Edition Transferable Academic Skills Kit is a flexible learning resource that has been carefully designed to develop the key transferable skills that promote students' success in university and college study.
Whether you are a student or an instructor, TASK provides a tried and tested teaching and learning tool suitable for a broad range of academic disciplines. A series of supported exercises relates theory to practice and provides students with the tools to develop a framework of skills that can then be used in a wide range of contexts both inside and outside the academic world.
Each module also has web work and extension activities that offer additional information and practice relating to the skills covered in that module. TASK can be followed as a complete program of study, or individual modules can be selected to address specific needs. The modules are organized as follows: 1. Academic Culture 2. Critical Thinking 4.
Essay Writing 5. Scientific Writing 6. Presentations 9. Assessments, Exams and Review This is accomplished through case studies, where students can apply strategies they learn to scenarios before creating their own academic skills plan.
A self-assessment tool at the beginning of the text helps students to identify behaviors and beliefs they may wish to change in order to achieve more of their potential in college and in life. Students have an opportunity to revisit their self-assessment at the conclusion of the text.
Written in a positive, motivational style, ON COURSE empowers students with the tools they need to take charge of their success in college and in life. Downing's powerful guided journal entries have been retained from the original ON COURSE, International Edition text to encourage students to explore essential life skills such as personal responsibility, self-motivation, interdependence, and self-esteem.
The 2nd edition highlights the very process of learning how to solve academic challenges with improved study skills. Students engage in critical and creative problem solving that will enable them to achieve greater success in all parts of their lives. The 2nd edition also features expanded coverage of diversity, emphasizing the many ways in which people are different and how these differences often influence the choices they make.
Other new topics include a discussion of academic integrity, how to thrive in the college culture, and a research-based section on the importance of developing a growth mindset. Everyone who is trying to improve their academic standing needs help and this easy-to-use book with handy, practical tips is just the ticket.
Learn the importance of regular study time, create a study environment that is free of distractions and learn the importance of personal organization. Learn to learn by using the limited amount of time you have more effectively. You will learn: the essentials of good study habits; time management; how to set priorities; schedule study time when you are at your peak; how to create the proper study environment; how to design a self-motivated reward system; how to remove pressure when studying, and much more.
A perfect gift for every student, regardless of age or educational level.
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