Resumo de On Course Strategies For Creating Success In College And Life

Dr. Skip Downing answers an educator?s prayer by creating a textbook that inspires students to success by adopting eight personal characteristics. These principles are those embedded skills we, as teachers, desire in our students but often either feel inadequate to teach or feel that students should possess before entering our classroom. These are the basic eight characteristics that will keep our students on course in our classroom as well as in their career and relationships. ?By doing this activity, I have learned that when I take full responsibility for my life I can?t put the blame on anyone else. It makes me feel mature and like I?m in control. It also helps me know I?m on course with my life.? N.H., Mayland Community College (MCC) College Student Success graduate.Imagine your students accepting personal responsibility, discovering their own motivation, acquiring self-awareness as well as course content, mastering self-management, employing interdependence, developing a healthy, mature emotional intelligence, adopting life-long learning and believing in themselves. Beginning with an in-book or on-line self-assessment of the above eight principles, students are directed to reflect deeply through 31 journal prompts, as well as given a variety of hands-on activities, such as The Wise Choice Process and the 32-Day Contract, to help keep them on course with these important behaviors and beliefs. Students are empowered through recognizing victim/creator language and their inner voices and scripts, as well as learning how to set goals in order to fulfill their dreams. ?I learned in this class how important your Inner Critic, Inner Defender, and Inner Guide is in your life. Your IC and ID always blame yourself or others, but your Inner Guide always gives you a positive answer, a true answer, to every negative situation. My Inner Guide will always be my best friend from here on out because it will help me make better decisions that will reflect on my life and that makes me happy to know.? J. H., MCC College Student Success graduate.By utilizing case studies to encourage critical thinking and stimulate class discussion, this textbook could be the basis for any first-year experience course as well as a supplement for English, Psychology or Critical Thinking classes. Topics such as emotional intelligence and interdependence assist in creating desired experiences and outcomes in college as well as life.Each page is chocked full of inspiring quotes. Critical topics are simply but thoroughly addressed such as managing money, using mnemonics for optimal learning, handling stress, taking effective notes, and maximizing the utilization of technology. The final chapter provides the opportunity for the student to re-assess his/her ability to effectively use the eight principles of successful students.Personal testimonies from North Carolina Community College instructors include, ?Skip?s book is short but to the point. It changes students and the way they live their lives.? ?Finally, a textbook that addresses the principles of success beyond the course content.? With the contemporary focus on the Law of Attraction and using visualization to achieve the desires of one?s heart, this book is not only an excellent choice for any educator to implement in his/her course content, but a great ?self-help? for anyone desiring to create the life he/she desires to live.?Most classes just teach you the material that is related to the class topic, and sometimes that gets boring. This class keeps you on course to your goals and dreams, and helps you to take on these other classes in a positive manner. You come to face reality about yourself, and it makes you think of where you stand as an individual.?J.H., MCC College Student Success graduate.

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