Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators - Softcover

Weimer, Maryellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912150602 ISBN 13: 9780912150604

Verlag: Magna Publications, Incorporated, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators

Research has shown that more and more college students struggle with not only academic coursework, but also identifying how to be a student and learner at a higher education institution. While many students are still able to succeed, colleges and universities are finding that orientation sessions, study skill workshops and study tips and strategies integrated into coursework in all disciplines can set up students for success and improve overall retention.

Students need to first learn how to be a learner and with Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators as your handy side kick, you can assist them with doing just that and more. This interactive workbook and guide provides engaging content, quizzes, and worksheets for you to use to help students identify how they learn and how they can improve the learning process.

Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators features activities and curriculum alternatives for faculty, academic advisors, and other educators to help students think critically, improve note-taking abilities, encourage student-run study groups, and develop study skills for daily use. Perfect for novice and seasoned educators, this guide offers strategies to prompt students to confront the myths of multitasking, analyze their current study strategies, develop study skills, engage in note taking that promotes learning, and improve college-level reading skills. In addition, this comprehensive learning guide offers tips for creating study groups, expert advice on how to create a study game plan, and innovative reflection activities to further evaluate how each student learns. Easily copy any of the resources to use as handouts and educational guides in the classroom.

Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators gives every educator an action plan for guiding students through the early college years, with expert help on how to:

• Facilitate learning through discussion
• Help students create a before- and after-exam learning plan
• Encourage students to review and reflect on their grades and performance
• Confront the myth of multitasking•Show students how to take comprehensive and thorough notes
• Provide actions to avoid that that underscore the value of reading
• Assist college students with preparing more effectively for exams

Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators is a resource you can turn to time and time again as you foster learning in the classroom, prepare students for the college experience, and develop adult learners.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Magna Publications, Incorporated
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0912150602
• ISBN 13: 9780912150604
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
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