Creating the Future You, with eBook Access Code: Envision, Pursue, Persist

Brad Garner

ISBN 10: 1119899192 / ISBN 13: 9781119899198

Editore: Wiley, 2025

Codice articolo 9781119899198

Riassunto:

This program gives first-year college students an engaging, appealing, and encouraging introduction to higher education with a focus on mind-set and taking ownership of their college experience, and with tools to help them succeed in college and beyond.

Creating The Future You takes a student-centric approach to fostering success through a concise, highly personalized, format, recognizing that student beginning their college studies at any given institution come to that institution from a variety of geographic locations and socioeconomic backgrounds, varied perspectives on social issues, and differing levels of academic ability, each with their own set of hopes and dreams for the future.

The topics selected and the manner in which they are examined continually take students from their current or prospective role as students to the options they will have upon graduation and entry into the job market:

• Identifying their passions
• Planning for success
• Taking care of themselves
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Understanding the power of Emotional Intelligence
• Learning their way
• Engaging with digital technology
• Taking advantage of available opportunities
• Embracing diversity
• Finding their happiness

Engaging students in learning and conversation about these issues greatly increases their opportunities for success. This program provides a format for students to gain information on each topic, assess their own levels of performance, and engage in meaningful conversation with each other, with their professors and other members of their campus community, and with other important figures in their lives.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Brad Garner, PhD, is Primary Content Curator for Digital2Learn, a collaborative research network dedicated to advancing education through technology.

Catherine A. Sanderson, PhD, is the Poler Family Professor of Psychology at Amherst College, MA. She has published widely on parenting, the relationship between mindset and happiness, and the psychology of courage and inaction, among other subjects. She has also authored numerous textbooks at college, middle school, and high school levels, and in 2012 she was named one of the country's top 300 professors by the Princeton Review.

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Titolo: Creating the Future You, with eBook Access ...
Casa editrice: Wiley
Data di pubblicazione: 2025
Legatura: Brossura
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