Keys to Effective Learning: Habits for College and Career Success - Softcover

Carter, Carol; Kravits, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013440551X ISBN 13: 9780134405513

Publisher: Pearson, 2016

Synopsis

For courses in Study Skills, Student Success, Freshman Seminar, or "University 101." Fosters self-directed skills and habits for success that students need Challenged by technological, academic, financial, and interpersonal issues, students need the habits of success-persistence, planning, questioning, connecting, coaching-for their professional and personal future. Keys to Effective Learning nurtures these skills in students entering college by focusing on building accountability, teamwork, and critical/creative thinking skills that can be applied to any academic or workplace setting. All features and exercises now incorporate coaching on skills such as initiative, motivation, and goal setting to support self-management. For example, in each chapter, Habits for Success promote problem solving and boost success. Each chapter also includes a unique and inspiring story that shows how a real person used the Habit discussed to meet a challenge and achieve a goal. Academic coaching language and powerful questions throughout reinforce the application of the skills presented. Also available with MyStudentSuccessLab(TM) This title is also available with MyStudentSuccessLab, an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Whether face-to-face or online, MyStudentSuccessLab personalizes learning to help students build the skills they need through peer-led video interviews, interactive practice exercises, and activities that provide academic, life, and professionalism skills. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab(TM) & Mastering(TM) does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab & Mastering, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instruct

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Review:

The Habits for Success, how they are integrated into the content, and how the text offers students the chance to practice them are what distinguish this text from other study skill texts.

-- Deb Manness, Wake Technical Community College

This text is a comprehensive academic success skills workbook with activities that will engage your students. . . . In the learning styles chapter, I really like the [two inventories]. They work well together to help the student get a clear picture of who they are as learners.

-- Fatina Taylor, Prince George's Community College

KEL has done an excellent job covering some very complex issues in an efficient, engaging and appealing manner. . . I strongly believe that Listening and Note Taking is the best chapter I have seen. As for the ancillaries, I was extremely impressed with the break down of the topics [in the instructor's manual], its map of the [PowerPoint] slides, icebreakers, and teaching resources.

-- Leigh Smith, Lamar Institute of Technology

[KEL is] a wonderful textbook. The colors and graphics are inviting for student learning. It is written in a way that it is very much on the student level. It...[is] interactive for the students and a text that they can . . . take ownership of.

--Tracy Cantelmo, Youngstown State University

KEL is user friendly, developed with the developmental student in mind, and appropriate for their needs. [The Habits for Success theme] is very positive. I like the idea of approaching the idea of study skills as changing habits. This is something that students can understand and it seems like a doable objective.

-- Pat Grissom, San Jacinto College

About the Author:

Carol Carter has spent her entire career in the business world, where she has a track record of success in corporate America, entrepreneurship, and non-profit. Her student success work is driven by firsthand knowledge of what employers expect and demand from today’s graduates. She is the Founder of GlobalMindED, a worldwide movement to convene educational, technological, and business leaders annually so they can collaborate and connect with first-generation-to-college students. The goal of this connection is to create the access and opportunity these students need to succeed in college, at work, and as proactive global citizens.

 

As President of LifeBound, an academic and career coaching company, Carter drives the company’s goal to help middle school and high school students become competitive in today’s world, and she teaches study, interpersonal, and career skills to students as well as training and certifying adults in academic coaching skills. Carol speaks on educational topics nationally and internationally and is an expert blogger for the Huffington Post under “Impact,” “College,” and “Business.” Carol is a co-author on many books for Pearson including the Keys to Success series as well as Keys to Business Communication and the Career Tool Kit. She has also published a series of books for K-12 students through LifeBound, including Dollars and Sense: How To Be Smart About Money and Majoring In the Rest of Your Life: Career Secrets for College Students.

  

Sarah Lyman Kravits teaches student success at Montclair State University and has been studying and writing about student success for over 18 years.  She is a co-author on the Keys to Success series, including Keys to College Success, Keys to Community College Success, Keys to Success, Keys to Effective Learning, Keys to Online Learning, and Keys to Success Quick. Sarah has given workshops and trainings on student success topics such as critical thinking, risk and reward, and time management at schools all over the country. Sarah also works with Essex Community College where she teaches, trains, and coaches on success for students from a variety of backgrounds and focuses on issues for first generation to college students.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 013440551X
• ISBN 13: 9780134405513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368