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- Advanced academic achievement
The subject of this class is SUCCESS...what success is and how to achieve it in college. This course is aligned with the textbook: Cornerstones for Community College Success", Sherfield, Robert M., and Patricia G. Moody. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Education, 2014.
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Email: Email Address
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Textbook: Sherfield, Robert M., and Patricia G. Moody.
Cornerstones for Community College Success. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Education, 2014. Print.
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Additional Book: Student Handbook/Day planner for this year.
Course description
The subject of this class is SUCCESS…what success is and how to achieve it in college. We will do this by introducing you to the college culture to help you make a smooth transition to college life. This course will ask you an important question: What are YOU prepared to do to become a successful student? If you do want to succeed in college and see it as a process of skill development for becoming a better student, learning how to learn, and beginning a worthwhile career, then you must put the time and effort into developing the strategies we will be talking about this semester.
Learning outcomes
When you have successfully completed this course, you should be able to:
- Manage time effectively for academic purposes.
- Apply textbook reading strategies and test-taking techniques.
- Identify areas of academic interest and career goals to create an educational plan.
- Use effective note-taking techniques.
- Set long and short-term academic goals.
- Draw support, advice, and assistance from peers.
- Locate learner support programs resources; identify the services offered, and how to access them.
How to succeed in this class (aka how to get an 'a')
To create the very best environment for supporting your success and the success of your classmates, this course has five important rules. The more challenging these rules are for you, the more value you will experience by adopting them. By choosing to follow these rules, you are choosing to be successful in this course, in college, and in your life. These rules will support your success in every goal you pursue.
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Show up! Choose to attend every scheduled class period in its entirety.
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Do the work! Complete all reading assignments prior to class and choose to do your very best work in preparing all of your assignments and hand them in on time.
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Participate actively! Choose to stay focused and involved in every class, offering your best comments, questions, and answers, when appropriate.
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Use an Academic Planner! Each student is expected to have a personal planner to record and track important academic assignments, personal appointments, exams and important academic dates. You may select any form of planner including a calendar, notebook, iPhone, Blackberry, etc. Your planner must be organized and complete and include everything you are responsible for in your classes for the entire semester. You will show me your planner in class at periodic intervals throughout the semester.
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Be proactive! Look ahead and anticipate. Plan for setbacks. Communicate with your instructor. Take responsibility!
Questions & Answers
what does preconceived mean
How can I develope my cognitive domain
why is communication effective
Communication is effective because it allows individuals to share ideas, thoughts, and information with others.
effective communication can lead to improved outcomes in various settings, including personal relationships, business environments, and educational settings. By communicating effectively, individuals can negotiate effectively, solve problems collaboratively, and work towards common goals.
it starts up serve and return practice/assessments.it helps find voice talking therapy also assessments through relaxed conversation.
miss
Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the person begins to jumb back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes. Identify the types of learning, if it is classical conditioning identify the NS, UCS, CS and CR. If it is operant conditioning, identify the type of consequence positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement or punishment
please i need answer
Wekolamo
because it helps many people around the world to understand how to interact with other people and understand them well, for example at work (job).
Agreed 👍 There are many parts of our brains and behaviors, we really need to get to know. Blessings for everyone and happy Sunday!
ARC
A child is a member of community not society elucidate ?
Isn't practices worldwide, be it psychology, be it science. isn't much just a false belief of control over something the mind cannot truly comprehend?
compare and contrast skinner's perspective on personality development on freud
Skinner skipped the whole unconscious phenomenon and rather emphasized on classical conditioning
war
explain how nature and nurture affect the development and later the productivity of an individual.
nature is an hereditary factor while nurture is an environmental factor which constitute an individual personality. so if an individual's parent has a deviant behavior and was also brought up in an deviant environment, observation of the behavior and the inborn trait we make the individual deviant.
Samuel
I am taking this course because I am hoping that I could somehow learn more about my chosen field of interest and due to the fact that being a PsyD really ignites my passion as an individual the more I hope to learn about developing and literally explore the complexity of my critical thinking skills
and having a good philosophy of the world is like a sandwich and a peanut butter 👍
Jonathan
generally amnesi how long yrs memory loss
interpersonal relationships
What would be the best educational aid(s) for gifted kids/savants?
treat them normal, if they want help then give them.
that will make everyone happy
Saurabh
What are the treatment for autism?
hello. autism is a umbrella term. autistic kids have different disorder overlapping. for example. a kid may show symptoms of ADHD and also learning disabilities.
before treatment please make sure the kid doesn't have physical disabilities like hearing..vision..speech problem. sometimes these
Jharna
continue..
sometimes due to these physical problems..the diagnosis may be misdiagnosed.
treatment for autism.
well it depends on the severity.
since autistic kids have problems in communicating and adopting to the environment.. it's best to expose the child in situations where the child
Jharna
child interact with other kids under doc supervision.
play therapy.
speech therapy.
Engaging in different activities that activate most parts of the brain.. like drawing..painting. matching color board game.
string and beads game.
the more you interact with the child the more effective
Jharna
results you'll get..
please consult a therapist to know what suits best on your child.
and last as a parent. I know sometimes it's overwhelming to guide a special kid.
but trust the process and be strong and patient as a parent.
Jharna
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OpenStax, Advanced academic achievement. OpenStax CNX. Sep 10, 2013 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11571/1.2
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