Connections: An Insider's Guide to College Success
Help high school students learn the skills needed for their academic future
The focus of Connections is preparing and supporting students for academic and life choices necessary to succeed in college. This text is based on 50 Tips: Planning for College Success and presents timely, relevant topics combined with a useful planner.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- Charting Your Path to Success in College
- Taking Responsibility for Your Success
- Using This Text to Find Your Way
- Time Management
- Getting Started: Knowing How You Spend Your Time
- Time-Management Practical Tips
- Learning Styles
- How Do You Learn Best? Identifying Your Learning Style
- Developing Effective Study Strategies
- Reading Skills
- Reading with the SQ3R Method
- Memory Curve
- Practicing Effective Reading
- Writing
- Introduction: The Importance of Writing Well
- The Writing Process
- Reviewing and Proofing
- Information Literacy (NEW!)
- Diversity
- Discovering Youself
- Understanding Your Peers
- Discovering Your Community Discovering
- Your World
- Taking Notes
- Note Taking Methods: Cornell, Mapping, Outlining
- Integrating Your Reading and Class Notes
- Making the Most of Your Notes (Avoiding Note-Taking Mistakes)
- Developing Crtitical-Thinking Skills
- The Value of Questioning: Asking "Why?" and "What If?"
- Evaluating Information
- Improving your Critical Thinking Skills
- Studying For & Taking Tests
- Practicing Effective Testing: Before, During, and After the Exam
- Bringing It All Together: Using Notes, Readings, and Study Guides to Prepare for an Exam
- Keeping It Together: Identifying and Managing Test Anxiety
- Personal Planning & Goal-Setting
- Setting Goals
- Turning Goals Into Action
- Planning Your College Career
- Major & Career Exploration (NEW!)
- Financial Responsibilty
- Creating and Following a Personal Budget
- Building Good Credit: You Can Start Now!
- Becoming a Savvy Spender: Tips for Saving
Specifications
Written by: Jennifer Latino, Sherri Moore, and Scott Moore
Size: 7" x 9"
Page Count: 264 + up to 36 pages of custom class- or school-specific information–such as policies, schedules, requirements or helpful reminders.
Layout Format: Block
Take a Closer Look
Students as active participants in their education and having success in life after high school.
The material in this textbook encourages students to maximize their education and take ownership of their personal success. The material offers practical guidelines and principles with proven practices to help build habits of success–now and in future endeavors.
Success through planning.
The planner allows students to practice the vital role of planning in all aspects of day-to-day activities. Research shows that the ability to plan is an indicator of success in higher education.
Focus on behaviors and attitudes.
This textbook encourages students to apply college-level study strategies to their courses and examine how their attitudes and those of their peers directly impact their own success.
Student centered.
Quite simply, this textbook gets used. This is the only textbook that revolves around students' lifestyle and social needs with information they want to learn.
Designed by experienced instructors and expert researchers.
This textbook showcases the practical experience of the authors' inclusive careers in teaching and directing college student success courses.
Customize it to make it reflect the school mission.
Integrate additional materials–such as school-specific information and policies–or choose from the company's extensive library of additional resource pages.
Focused on topics relevant to all types of students and institutions.
The authors present comprehensive and helpful information about every aspect of the college experience for a variety of student audiences–from students preparing to attend a two-year college or four-year university to technical colleges.
What's Included
Chapters:
The textbook section of this planner includes 11 chapters of thorough, but concise, real-world information that is immediately applicable.
Monthly Calendars:
Students receive monthly space for long-term planning. Valuable and applicable content from 50 Tips: Planning for College Success is also provided on monthly calendar pages.
Weekly Calendars:
The weekly calendar pages provide ample space to record important appointments.
Planning Stickers:
A fun way to highlight important dates and events, these stickers are reusable and visually appealing.
onTRAC®:
onTRAC® is an intuitive, flexible system that helps students organize tasks and priorities and, most importantly, manage their time. Think, Record, Act and Check are the four basic steps that help students set and accomplish goals every day.
Resource Pages:
Academic content and reference pages are provided within the planner.
You Also Get
Educator Online Resources:
Educators are supported with an online guide and PowerPoint presentation to help tailor and structure their in-class time with students and make lesson planning easier.
Authors
Dr. Jennifer A. Latino
Currrent director of The First-Year Experience, Campbell University; former associate director of University 101 Programs, University of South Carolina.
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Dr. Sheri B. Moore
Currently the associate professor, University of Louisville, Dr. Moore has been working in educational excellence for institutions of higher learning for more than 20 years and is the co-author of 50 Tips: Planning for College Success.
Scott M. Moore
Moore is a recent graduate of Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School and the co-author of 50 Tips: Planning for College Success.
Make It Your Own
Planners are great tools for your students, but why not have them work a little harder for you. Customize them with your school's information, and use them as a continual communication piece between administrators, instructors, students and families.
School Handbook:
The most efficient and cost-effective way to communicate school policies, schedules and events is to add your important school information right into your planners.
Handbook Resource Pages:
Add additional academic resources to your handbook. Our extensive library of helpful resource pages can assist students in a number of subject areas. View our complete library of resource pages.
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