Full Description
For Student Success courses in high school, career college, community college, or university settings. This book takes a logical approach to student success by starting with stress management in making positive behavioral changes for academic and personal success. Navigating Your Future Success is readable and relevant to engage students in assessing their academic and workplace skills and develop a plan for success, starting with the critical foundation of stress management. MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com) helps students to 'Start strong, Finish stronger' by acquiring the skills they need to succeed for ongoing personal and professional development. Teaching & Learning Experience: Logical Learning OutcomesHow will students do well if they are "stressed out" as this impacts all aspects of their lives? Students will learn to harness stress in a positive way and set goals in their interpersonal skill areas to maximize external success skills. This program provides:* Personalized Learning with MyStudentSuccessLab: Whether face-to-face or online, MyStudentSuccessLab helps students build the skills they need through peer-led video interviews, interactive practice exercises, and activities that provide academic, life, and professionalism skills.* Personal Success Skills - Internal (or intrapersonal) success skills focus on how to do well "within yourself". Stress management is followed by positive attitude, time management, goal setting, learning styles, critical/creative thinking, improving memory, and test taking. * Professional Success Skills - Skills for succeeding "within your program and beyond." These skills focus on communication, group interaction, team building, job-seeking, and leadership development. * Effective Teaching Techniques - This book includes exercises to facilitate positive behavioral changes. Affective teaching differs from cognitive (theory) teaching, so behavioral changes are presented succinctly to show quick positive results that last. Note: This is the standalone book, if you want the book/access code order the ISBN below:0321952529 / 9780321952523 Navigating Your Future Success Plus NEW MyStudentSuccessLab 2013 Update -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0321885988 / 9780321885982 Navigating Your Future Success 0321943252 / 9780321943255 NEW MyStudentSuccessLab 2013 Update -- Valuepack Access Card
Contents
Part OneChapter 1: Stress Management: The Skill that Affects All OthersChapter 2: Positive Attitudes and Goals: Preparing for Success Chapter 3: Managing Your Resources: Time and MoneyChapter 4: Active Study Strategies: Learning "How to Learn"Chapter 5: Learning Styles, Memory and Test Taking: Getting the GradeChapter 6: Creative Thinking and Decision Making: Making Good ChoicesPart Two: A Roadmap for Professional SuccessChapter 7: Communication in Action: Presenting Yourself to OthersChapter 8: Group Interaction and Team Building: Working Together WorksChapter 9: Career Seeking and Leadership Development: Your Future Begins NowChapter 10: Enhancing Your Personal Health: Take Care of Yourself Along the JourneyAppendixGlossaryIndex
