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Academic Success Strategies

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Academic Success Strategies

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    1. Academic Success Strategies Cheshier, Chapter 4

    2. Academic Success Strategies Setting goals is important Know key campus resources Use collaborative learning outside class Use help from your professors Master study skills

    3. Importance of Goal Setting How can you ever expect to get somewhere if you don’t know where you want to go

    4. Set Goals for Yourself Goals are standards to measure yourself against Write down your goals Visualizing helps Set high standards and do not settle for anything but high quality work

    5. Structure your Life Situation Make Graduation in Engineering Technology a primary life goal. That is, make graduating in ET a really important goal, one which affects you day-to-day decisions and choices based on whether a decision supports your goal or conflicts with it (moving you further away from achieving your goal). Be aware of 60 Hour rule i.e. if you work 40 hours/week, 6 to 8 credits is a maximum course load.

    6. Structure your Life Situation (2) Let your friends & family know that you want to make school a priority Don’t hesitate to seek help from: peers, instructors, campus resources

    7. Collaborative Leaning Retain more when working with others

    8. Teaching Structures Lecture information often passes from the notes of the professor to the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.

    9. Engineering Technology Hands-on assignments Homework Laboratory experiences Professors more available for one-on-one tutoring Problem Solving

    10. Learning Structures The "lone-wolf” approach to academics is not recommended for college level technical studies.

    11. Learning Structures Solitary or Collaborative

    12. Group Study/ Collaborative Learning Better preparation for the real world You’ll enjoy it more You’ll learn more Collaborative learning is a shift in the competitive paradigm of the past in line with W. Edwards Demming’s quote.

    13. Making Effective Use of your Professors One-on-one instruction Academic advising Career guidance Let you know how you are doing Nominate you for awards or scholarships Serve as a reference Help you find a job

    14. Win over your professors Six ways to make people like you from Dale Carnegie Become genuinely interested in people Smile Remember person’s names Be a good listener Talk in terms of the other person’s interest Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely

    15. Behaviors to Avoid Sleeping in class Doing other homework or chatting with another student instead of listening in class Failing to do the homework Not buying the textbook Saying “I missed class today, did we do anything important?”

    16. Utilizing Tutors & Other Campus Resources Skills Assessment and Development Center -- Tutoring & Placement testing Writing center Center for Career & Leadership Development Student activities Student employment, tutoring Counseling Center

    17. Develop Your Study Skills Don't allow the next class session in a course to come without having mastered the material presented in the previous session.

    18. Study Skills How to study Learning is a reinforcement process – Most of the learning in math science, and ET courses comes not from studying or reading but from solving problems. So do your homework problems (or more).

    19. Study Skills How many hours should you study? It depends: How difficult the course is How demanding the professor is How good a student you are How well prepared your background makes you for the course What grade you want to receive

    20. Study Skills Learn to manage your time Develop your reading skills Prepare for tests Take tests intelligently Know your sensory preferences Improve your memory Ignore the “impostor” feelings

    21. End of Presentation

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