Keys To Effective Learning

This text is geared to students who are academically underprepared for college-level studies, especially first-generation and at-risk students. The sixth edition of Keys to Effective Learning text helps students build habits for success and develop the thinking, self-management, and study skills they need to succeed academically. This edition is streamlined to focus more on essential study skills, with greater coverage of memory, studying, reading, and test-taking. It retains its acclaimed simple-to-use Critical and Creative Thinking coverage, and adds relevance by addressing the two greatest barriers to staying in school--time and money management. Recognizing that the first step in developing the independent thinking skills needed for college-level work is understanding how you think, this revision builds students' self-awareness in three ways: embedded in-chapter self-assessments, "powerful question" features, and learning preferences grids that asks them to think about how they learn in a variety of situations. The text offers a pre- and post-course assessment. The Habits for Success theme is now more integrated and practical. Students assess which habits they'll need in college and how to form those habits so they have the tools to increase their preparedness, confidence, and commitment to learning. 0133852849 / 9780133852844 Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for Success Plus NEW MyStudentSuccessLab -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0137007507 / 9780137007509 Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for 0321943252 / 9780321943255 NEW MyStudentSuccessLab -- Valuepack Access Card

This book focuses on developing effective learning techniques to help students excel in school and throughout their lives. Unlike traditional study skills books, this one emphasizes how people learn effectively by involving them in the active process of mastering their thinking, self-management, and academic skills and their personal initiative and persistence. KEY TOPICS: The authors outline getting ready to learn through building habits for success, self-awareness, goal setting, time and money management, learning preferences, critical and creative thinking, reading and studying skills, memory, listening, taking notes, test preparation, test taking, succeeding on group projects, and lifelong learning. MARKET: For individuals interested in effective learning techniques, especially first generation or academically underprepared students who need strong study skills emphasis.

For courses in Study Skills, Student Success, Freshman Seminar or “University 101”. The sixth edition is geared to students who are academically underprepared for college-level studies, especially first-generation and at-risk students. The text helps students build habits for success and develop the thinking, self-management, and study skills they need to succeed academically, and has been streamlined to focus more on essential study skills, with greater coverage of memory, studying, reading, and test-taking. It retains its acclaimed simple-to-use Critical and Creative Thinking coverage, and adds relevance by addressing the two greatest barriers to staying in school—time and money management. Understanding how you think is key; this revision promotes students’ self-awareness, and offers a pre- and post-course assessment. The Habits for Success theme is more integrated and practical to ensure students develop the tools needed to increase their preparedness, confidence, and commitment to learning. Students and Faculty alike are encouraged to visit the central website for all Keys franchise materials, www.carterkeys.com, where you can correspond with the author team, view their speaking calendar, benefit from current articles, and more! TECHNOLOGY OFFERING: MyStudentSuccessLab is available with this book upon request. It is an online solution designed to help students ‘Start strong, Finish stronger’ by building skills for ongoing personal and professional development. Go to http://mystudentsuccesslab.com/mssl3 for a Point and Click DEMO of the Time Management module.

The COWANS method revolves around communication, ownership, wins, analysis, negativity, and structure. Geared to help students in urban settings, the method was designed to help students to make permanent changes to achieve academic success. Dameion Cowans Sr. highlights ways to create a warm classroom culture to promote learning. He explores how teachers can use the method to: help students with various learning styles; assist teachers in mastering classroom management; celebrate successes as students achieve milestones; address the root cause of bullying. The author also focuses on why classroom norms are so essential, noting that without norms, students often roam, act maliciously, or become defiant. Students will follow norms if they are consistent and fair—and teachers must model them from the beginning. Help students achieve success today and for years to come by learning The Keys to Effective Teaching.