Use a text for your first-year seminar that speaks directly to your community or technical college students.
Thriving in the Community College & Beyond is a comprehensive and knowledge focused book written specifically to students in the community and technical college. This book assists students in making a smooth transition into college by laying out an academic, social and emotional process that community college students can use to follow throughout their college success and beyond.
Topics covered in this book include:
- Principles of community college success
- Self-awareness
- Goal-setting
- Learning strategies
- Time and money management
- Test-taking and study skills
- Communication and relationship including conflict management
- Higher-level learning
- Diversity
- Educational planning
- Health and wellness
Book Features:
- Case studies at the end of each chapter
- Relevant personal stories from the authors
- Who's in Charge? Scenarios
- Think About It sections throughout the chapters
- Perspectives from former first-year students
Each book includes an access code for My Power Learning online learning style assessment and learning style report. Students can become a "Power Learner" by understanding their learning style and using it to their advantage.
Optional - with the adoption of this text, you will have the option of including Folio180. This online student portfolio provides a single location for students to collect their activities, accomplishments and supporting documentation in a single location during their college careers.
To adopt or puchase this text to include LASSI (Learning and Study Strategies Inventory) click here.