Keys to Success in College, Career, and Life: How to Achieve Your Goals - Brossura

Carter, Carol; Kravits, Sarah Lyman; Bishop, Joyce; Block, Judy; Bucher, Richard D.

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ISBN 10: 0130986348 ISBN 13: 9780130986344

Casa editrice: Prentice Hall, 2003

Riassunto

This brief version of the best-selling book connects college skills with career and life success. With its learn-by-doing emphasis, it encourages readers to think critically about their choices and goals. Chapter topics include a Welcome to College and further discuss: knowing how you learn and how to choose a major; goal setting and time management; becoming an active learner with critical and creative thinking; reading and studying; listening, note taking, and memory; test taking; relating to others in a diverse world; and building skills for life success. For students of college and life.

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Carol Carter is founder and president of LifeBound, which provides seminars, coaching and resources for high school and college students. In addition, as Director of Faculty Development at Prentice Hall, Carol puts together and runs faculty symposia and workshops in student success across the country. She has written Majoring in the Rest o f Your Life: Career Secrets for College Students and Majoring in High School. She has also co-authored Keys to Preparing for College, Keys to College Studying, The Career Tool Kit, Keys to Career Success, Keys to Study Skills, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Success. She has taught welfare-to-work classes, team taught in the La Familia Scholars Program at Community College of Denver, and has conducted numerous workshops for students and faculty around the country. She is the host of the Keys to Lifelong Learning Telecourse, a 26episode telecourse to help students at a distance prepare for college, career, and life success. In addition to working with students of all ages, Carol thrives on foreign travel and culture; she has been fortunate enough to have been a guest in more than 40 countries. Please visit her Web site and write her at www.caroljcarter.com.

Joyce Bishop holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has taught for more than 20 years, receiving a number of honors, including Teacher of the Year for 1995 and 2000. For five years she has been voted "favorite teacher" by the student body and Honor Society at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA, where she has taught since 1987 and is a tenured professor. She has worked with a federal grant to establish Learning Communities and Workplace Learning in her district, and has developed workshops and trained faculty in cooperative learning, active learning, multiple intelligences, workplace relevancy, learning styles, authentic assessment, team building, and the development of learning communities. She is currently teaching on-line and multimedia classes, and training other faculty to teach online in her district and region of 21 colleges. She also co-authored Keys to College Studying, Keys to Success, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Study Skills. Joyce is the lead academic of the Keys to Lifelong Learning Telecourse, distributed by Dallas Telelearning.

Sarah Lyman Kravits comes from a family of educators and has long cultivated an interest in educational development. She co-authored Keys to College Studying, The Career Tool Kit, Keys to Success, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Study Skills and has served as Program Director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to further the career and personal development of high school students. In that capacity she helped to formulate both curricular and .organizational elements of the program, working closely with instructors as well as members of the business community. She also gives faculty workshops in student success and in critical thinking. Sarah holds a B.A. in English and drama from the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar, and an M.F.A. from Catholic University.

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Book by Carter Carol Bishop Joyce Kravits Sarah Block Judy

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• Editore: Prentice Hall
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0130986348
• ISBN 13: 9780130986344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340