16 Weeks to College Success
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2023
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2023
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Written for traditional students as well as adult learners returning to college, 16 Weeks to College Success: The Mindful Student addresses the challenges of college and provides a toolbox of strategies for students to apply to their courses throughout their academic tenure. Broken down into easily digestible modules (weeks), the publication engages the students in in the learning process while supplying valuable references throughout to promote further research.
- Need-Based: 16-Week format structured to meet needs of students as they generally occur in a semester.
- Time and life management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Motivation
- College textbook reading
- Critical reading
- Learning and Studying with Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Note-taking
- Test-taking
- Integrated weekly planner sheets that reinforce metacognition
- Goal-focused and data-driven: Includes two administrations of the LASSI for pre and post assessment linked to course content for goal formation and monitoring of growth.
- Student-Centered: Designed for students to use within a course, high stakes program, or on their own
- Research-based: Developed from 23 years of experience and research working with college students, staff, and faculty.
- User-friendly: Weekly Activities guide students in applying the strategies to their existing courses
- This text can be integrated into any course or program for higher education.
Introduction
Week One Motivation, Metacognition and Mapping Goals for the Semester
Week Two Managing Time & Overcoming Procrastination
Week Three Evaluating Your Emotional Intelligence
Week Four Identifying Distorted Thoughts
Week Five Developing Active Reading Strategies
Week Six Identifying Main Points
Week Seven Annotating with Critical Thinking & Reading Strategies
Week Eight Studying and Learning in College
Week Nine Metacognition—Rethinking and Revisioning the Learning and Study Plan
Week Ten Note-Taking Strategies that Make a Difference
Week Eleven Life Management: Applying Covey’s First Three Habits to College
Week Twelve Finding Balance: Applying Covey’s Last Four Habits to College
Week Thirteen Taking Tests with a Strategic Plan
Week Fourteen Overcoming Test Anxiety
Week Fifteen Preparing for Finals
Week Sixteen Review, Assess, and Reflect
Gina Burkart has taught and supported college students for 23 years. She is currently the Director of Learning Services in the Margaret Mann Academic Resource Center at Clarke University (The MARC) where she has worked for over 10 years. Additionally, she teaches the College Success course, as well as literature courses and general education courses as an adjunct instructor. Prior to her position at Clarke University, she worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University and also taught in the English department at the University of Northern Iowa for 11 years and was the Coordinator of the Reading and Learning Center at the University of Northern Iowa. She has an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Post-Secondary Literacy and Writing and an MA in literature. She frequently publishes and presents at conferences, such as NCLCA, CRLA, and NOSS regarding first-year students, post-secondary literacy, and retention in higher education. She has also had her writing published in journals such as The North American Review and The Journal of Literacy and Learning. She is also a consultant and collaborator for the award-winning website Improve with Metacognition where she frequently publishes about her teaching and research.
Burkart is also the author of A Parent’s Guide to Harry Potter (2005, InterVarsity Press), Finding Purpose in Narnia: A Journey with Prince Caspian (2008, Paulist Press), and Finding Meaning in Narnia: A Voyage on the Dawn Treader (2010, Nimble Books). She has been interviewed nationally about Harry Potter and using young adult literature to build relationships, was featured on About.com for her work with Harry Potter and Christian Teens and has written multiple articles for CBN, Crosswalk.com, and Catholic World.
New Fourth Edition Now Available!
Written for traditional students as well as adult learners returning to college, 16 Weeks to College Success: The Mindful Student addresses the challenges of college and provides a toolbox of strategies for students to apply to their courses throughout their academic tenure. Broken down into easily digestible modules (weeks), the publication engages the students in in the learning process while supplying valuable references throughout to promote further research.
- Need-Based: 16-Week format structured to meet needs of students as they generally occur in a semester.
- Time and life management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Motivation
- College textbook reading
- Critical reading
- Learning and Studying with Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Note-taking
- Test-taking
- Integrated weekly planner sheets that reinforce metacognition
- Goal-focused and data-driven: Includes two administrations of the LASSI for pre and post assessment linked to course content for goal formation and monitoring of growth.
- Student-Centered: Designed for students to use within a course, high stakes program, or on their own
- Research-based: Developed from 23 years of experience and research working with college students, staff, and faculty.
- User-friendly: Weekly Activities guide students in applying the strategies to their existing courses
- This text can be integrated into any course or program for higher education.
Introduction
Week One Motivation, Metacognition and Mapping Goals for the Semester
Week Two Managing Time & Overcoming Procrastination
Week Three Evaluating Your Emotional Intelligence
Week Four Identifying Distorted Thoughts
Week Five Developing Active Reading Strategies
Week Six Identifying Main Points
Week Seven Annotating with Critical Thinking & Reading Strategies
Week Eight Studying and Learning in College
Week Nine Metacognition—Rethinking and Revisioning the Learning and Study Plan
Week Ten Note-Taking Strategies that Make a Difference
Week Eleven Life Management: Applying Covey’s First Three Habits to College
Week Twelve Finding Balance: Applying Covey’s Last Four Habits to College
Week Thirteen Taking Tests with a Strategic Plan
Week Fourteen Overcoming Test Anxiety
Week Fifteen Preparing for Finals
Week Sixteen Review, Assess, and Reflect
Gina Burkart has taught and supported college students for 23 years. She is currently the Director of Learning Services in the Margaret Mann Academic Resource Center at Clarke University (The MARC) where she has worked for over 10 years. Additionally, she teaches the College Success course, as well as literature courses and general education courses as an adjunct instructor. Prior to her position at Clarke University, she worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University and also taught in the English department at the University of Northern Iowa for 11 years and was the Coordinator of the Reading and Learning Center at the University of Northern Iowa. She has an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Post-Secondary Literacy and Writing and an MA in literature. She frequently publishes and presents at conferences, such as NCLCA, CRLA, and NOSS regarding first-year students, post-secondary literacy, and retention in higher education. She has also had her writing published in journals such as The North American Review and The Journal of Literacy and Learning. She is also a consultant and collaborator for the award-winning website Improve with Metacognition where she frequently publishes about her teaching and research.
Burkart is also the author of A Parent’s Guide to Harry Potter (2005, InterVarsity Press), Finding Purpose in Narnia: A Journey with Prince Caspian (2008, Paulist Press), and Finding Meaning in Narnia: A Voyage on the Dawn Treader (2010, Nimble Books). She has been interviewed nationally about Harry Potter and using young adult literature to build relationships, was featured on About.com for her work with Harry Potter and Christian Teens and has written multiple articles for CBN, Crosswalk.com, and Catholic World.