SURVIVAL KIT.Musts for the First Day of Class.Ten General Survival Tips to Keep You Afloat.Evaluating Your Classroom Savvy.Survival Tips for Taking Notes and Reading Assignments.Survival Tips for Taking Tests.Before You Begin.Taking a Test.
Checklist for Essay Tests.A Dozen Reasons to Review a Returned Test.Obtaining Your Technology Survival Tools Email Etiquette Survival Tips for On-line Courses Modeling the Learning Process: Your Map in Learning How to Learn.The BREATHE System.The Big 3: Posture, Neck and Shoulder Muscles, and Breath Support.Assignment Log.1: Applying the Principles of Time Management.Exercise 1.
1: Beginning Steps in Time Management.Scheduling: The Road Map or GPS for Time Management.Benefits of Scheduling.Principles of Scheduling.Exercise 1.2: Time Log. Exercise 1.3: Time Log Analysis.
Planning a Master Schedule.Exercise 1.4: Master Schedule Worksheet.Putting Your Master Schedule into Practice.Exercise 1.5: Master Schedule Follow-up.Exercise 1.6: Master Schedule.
Date Book.To-Do List.Side Trips, Road Blocks and Detours.Time Wasters: Plan Your Attack.Exercise 1.7: My plan for Time Wasters.2: Critical Thinking.The Necessity of Critical Thinking.
The Process of Decision Making.Exercise 2.1: The Decision-Making Process.Exercise 2.2: Solve a problem.Exercise 2.3: Thinking About Thinking.Fact and Opinion.
Exercise 2.4: Fact or Opinion?.Levels of Learning: Bloom''s Taxonomy.Exercise 2.5: Levels of Learning.Exercise 2.6: Asking and Predicting Questions.3: Setting Goals.
Why Have Goals?.Exercise 3.1: What Does It Take to Make You Happy?.Locus of Control.Exercise 3.2: Locus of Control. Exercise 3.3: Why Are You Here? Exercise 3.
4: Dreaming.When Should You Set Goals?.Examining Areas of Your Life.35-Minute Brainstorming Activity.Themes of Goals.Exercise 3.5: Brainstorm Follow-up.Some Guidelines.
Elements of a Useful Goal.Exercise 3.6: Practice Writing Useful Goals. Exercise 3.7: Writing Your Goals in a Way They Are Likely to Be Accomplished. Achieving Goals. Tips For Achieving Goals. Create Goals for a Classmate.
4: Memory Principles.A Brief Explanation of Memory Research. Basic Information About the Brain.Applying the Memory Principles.Making an Effort to Remember Interest Intent to Remember Basic Background. Exercise 4.1: Making an Effort.Controlling the Amount and Form of Information Selectivity Meaningful Organization.
Exercise 4.2: Controlling the Amount and Form or Information.Strengthening Neural Connections Recitation Visualization Association.Exercise 4.3: Strengthening Neural Connections.Allowing Time to Solidify Pathways Consolidation Distributed Practice.Exercise 4.4: Consolidation.
Exercise 4.5: Putting Memory Principles to Use.How Memory Works: Putting Principles in Perspective.Stage One: Getting Information into the Brain--Reception into Short-Term Memory.Factors That Influence Reception.The Nature of Short-Term Memory.Stage Two: Processing from Short-Term to Long-Term Memory.Organization.
Sensory Modes.Rehearsal.The Nature of Long-Term Memory.Stage Three: Retrieving from Long-Term Memory.What Happens When You Retrieve Information from Long-Term Memory?.Exercise 4.6: Applying Memory Principles in Retrieval.5: Processing Information from Lectures.
Processing Information: Going Beyond Memory.Four Essential Functions for Learning.Essential Functions of Learning and the Question in the Margin System.Relating Information Processing to Memory Principles.Exercise 5.1: Modeling the Learning Process (Reflecting). Listening Skills.Exercise 5.
2: Obstacles to Listening. Exercise 5.3: Improving Your Listening. Exercise 5.4: Why Take Notes?. Using the Question in the Margin System for Lectures.Controlling the Amount and Form of Information.Before You Begin.
Six Steps.Exercise 5.5: Note-Taking. Sample Notes--Question in the Margin.Exercise 5.6: Practice Notes. Exercise 5.7: Question in the Margin System.
Exercise 5.8: More Practice Using the Question in the Margin System.Summary Sheet for Question in the Margin: Lecture Notes.Exercise 5.9: Memory Principles Used in the Question in the Margin System.6: Processing Information from Textbooks.Using the Question in the Margin System for Textbooks.Exercise 6.
1: Differences in gathering information from lectures and texts.Making an Effort to Remember.Controlling the Amount and Form of Information.Exercise 6.2: Understanding the Steps.Exercise 6.3: Practice Using the Question in the Margin System for Textbooks.Summary Sheet for Question in the Margin: Textbooks.
Summary for Both Lecture and Textbook Question in the Margin.Exercise 6.4: Do You Understand How the Question in the Margin System Works?.Exercise 6.5: Practice with Mapping. Exercise 6.6: Mapping the Question in the Margin System.Promoting Concentration.
Internal Distractions.Exercise 6.7: Setting Goals to promote concentration.External Distractions.Exercise 6.8: Identifying External Distractions. Exercise 6.9: Discovering the Best Place for You to Study.
Exercise 6.10: Study Habits Analysis.7: Learning Styles.What Are Learning Styles?.Why Determine Learning Style?.Sensory Modes of Learning: Input Preference.Exercise 7.1: Create a PowerPoint Presentation.
Exercise 7.2: Sensory Modality Inventory.The Auditory Learner.The Visual Learner.The Kinesthetic Learner.Exercise 7.3: Sensory Mode Reflection.Hemispheric Dominance: Processing Preference.
Differences Between Left and Right Hemispheres.Exercise 7.4: How Does Your Brain Process Information?.Linear Versus Holistic Processing.Sequential Versus Random Processing.Symbolic Versus Concrete Processing.Logical Versus Intuitive Processing.Verbal Versus Nonverbal Processing.
Reality-Based Versus Fantasy-Oriented Processing Temporal versus Non-Temporal.Exercise 7.5: Left Brain Right Brain Reflection.Multiple Intelligences: Response Preference.Eight Kinds of Intelligence.Exercise 7.6: Multiple Intelligences. Exercise 7.
7: Multiple Intelligences. Using Multiple Intelligences to Make Decisions.Social Learning Preference: Alone or in Groups.Exercise 7.8: Social Inventory: Study first alone or in a group?.Exercise 7.9: Your Learning Profile.8: Test-Taking Strategies.
Exercise 8.1: Preparing for tests. Exercise 8.2: Self-Analysis: Preparing for Tests. Budgeting Your Time When Taking Tests.Preview the Test.Budget your Time.Exercise 8.
3: Budgeting your time. Following Directions.Exercise 8.4: Following Directions.Exercise 8.5: Strategies for Taking Any Test. Strategies for Objective Tests.Strategies for True/False Tests.
Exercise 8.6: Practice with Double Negatives. Exercise 8.7: Mapping True/False Strategies.Exercise 8.8: Practice with True/False Tests. Strategies for Multiple-Choice Tests.Exercise 8.
9: Practice with Multiple-Choice Questions.Strategies for Fill-in Questions.Exercise 8.10: Practice with Fill-in Questions. Strategies for Matching Questions.Exercise 8.11: Practice with Matching Questions. Exercise 8.
12: Summary For Objective Test Strategies. Predicting Test Questions.Exercise 8.13: Possible Test Questions Dealing with Test-Taking Strategies. Strategies for Essay Tests.Basic Strategies for Writing Answers to Essay Tests.Direction Words.Exercise 8.
14: Applying the Direction Words. Exercise 8.15: Practice with Direction Words.Exercise 8.16: Practice with Topic Sentences. Exercise 8.17: Practice with Evaluating Answers to Essay Questions. Final Exams.
9: Managing Stress.Stress: What Is It?.Analyzing Your Stress.Exercise 9.1: Developing a Plan of Action.Coping Strategies for Alleviating Stress Symptoms.Exercise 9.2: Using the strategies for alleviating stress.
Lifestyle Habits That Help Reduce Stress: Try a Few!.Exercise 9.3: Analyzing Lifestyle Habits.10: College Essentials and College Etiquette.Essential Resources.Exercise 10.1: Using Your College Catalog. General Education, or Core Curriculum, Courses.
All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from My Advisor.Exercise 10.2: Using Your Student Handbook. Exercise 10.3: Using Your Schedule Book. Exercise 10.4: Using Your Syllabus. Student Services.
Some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) by First-Year College Students or Transfers.Higher Education.Expectations and Responsibilities.Exercise 10.5: Double Checking Your Classroom Savvy.Nonsavvy Behavior.Student Power.Your Grade Point Average.
How to Calculate Your GPA.Exercise 10.6: Grade Point Average Practice. Registering for a New Term.11: Principles of Research.Using the Resources in the Library. A Systematic Approach to the Research Process.Step 1: Identifying and finding background information on your topic.
Step 2: Using the library catalog to find books.Step 3: Use indexes and databases to find periodical articles.Step 4: Finding Internet Resources.Step 5: Evaluating Your Sources.Step 6: Citing Your Sources.Finding Books.Exercise 11.1: Using Your Library Catalog.
Encyclopedias.Exercise 11.2: Providing background.Exercise 11.3: Finding Books about Your Topic.Finding Periodicals.Exercise 11.4: Practice Using Periodicals.
Using Subject (Discipline) Specific Databases.Exercise 11.5: Practice Using Subject Specific Databases.Finding Newspapers.Exercise 11.6: Practice Using Newspaper Sources.Using the Internet for Research.Exercise 11.
7: Practice Using the Internet for Research.Exercise 11.8: Choosing a Database. Quick References.Exercise 11.9: Quick Reliable References. Biographical Resources.Exercise 11.
10: Using Biographical Resource Center. Exercise 11.11: Practicing What you have learned. Appendix A: Principles of Studying Math.Appendix B: Jensen''s Equation for Optimal Learning.