Learning Skills for College and Career
, by Hettich, Paul I.
- ISBN: 9780534172923 | 053417292X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/1/1992
| Taking Charge | |
| A Guide To The Learning Skills | |
| The How and What of Learning | |
| What Lies Ahead: An Overview | |
| Your Expectations | |
| Where Are You Going? Why? Motives For College | |
| Where Are You Going? | |
| Why Do You Want to Attend College? | |
| Concluding Remarks | |
| Setting and Monitoring Goals | |
| Principles of Goal Setting | |
| Concluding Remarks | |
| The Covert Curriculum: Connecting College To Career | |
| The Overt Versus the Covert Curriculum | |
| The Covert Curriculum: A Closer Look | |
| Confirming the Connection Between College and Career | |
| The Covert Curriculum: Good News for Students | |
| Concluding Remarks | |
| Take Charge Of Your Time | |
| The Term Schedule: Your Academic Term at a Glance | |
| The Weekly Work List | |
| Daily DO-List | |
| The Appointment Book Weekly Planner | |
| Time Out! Connecting Time Management to Your Career | |
| G.O.: Get Organized | |
| Construct an Environment for Concentration | |
| Tune Up Your Efficiency | |
| Obtaining and Using Feedback | |
| A Memo to the Messy and the Meticulous | |
| Connecting Getting Organized to Your Career | |
| Getting Around | |
| Starting from Behind | |
| The First Step: Determine Your Needs | |
| The Next Step: Getting Around to Your Resources | |
| Getting Around the Downside | |
| Crossing the Finish Line | |
| Connecting Getting Around to Your Career | |
| Passing The Stress Test | |
| Stress: In Theory and in Practice | |
| Your Stress Buttons: Identifying Major Sources of Stress | |
| Developing a Stress-Resistant You | |
| Connecting Stress Management to Your Career | |
| Listening To Learn | |
| The Listening Process | |
| Learning How to Listen | |
| Connecting Listening to Your Career | |
| Taking Notes In Class | |
| Why Some Students Avoid Notetaking | |
| Notetaking as Selective Recording | |
| Reviewing: Getting the Most from Your Notes | |
| Connecting Notetaking to Your Career | |
| Getting Involved With Your Reading | |
| Understanding the Reading Process | |
| Understanding the Characteristics of Text | |
| Nine Strategies for Effective Reading | |
| Connecting Reading to Your Career | |
| Remembering | |
| How Memory Works | |
| Strategies and Rules for Remembering | |
| How Teachers Help You to Remember | |
| Connecting Remembering to Your Career | |
| Evaluation And Test-Taking Tips | |
| Evaluation: The Third Certainty of Life | |
| Test-Taking Tips: A Time Perspective | |
| Test Formats | |
| Connecting Evaluation to Your Career | |
| Becoming An Independent Thinker | |
| The Academic Disciplines: A Source of Evolving Knowledge and Skills | |
| The Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objectives | |
| Understanding Growth in Reasoning Abilities: Baxter Magolda's Stages of Cognitive Development | |
| Applying Bloom and Baxter Magolda's Stages of Cognitive Assignments | |
| Developing the Attitudes of Good Critical Thinking | |
| Improving Your Critical Thinking Skills | |
| Connecting Independent Thinking to Your Career | |
| IMproving Oral Communication Skills (A Short Course In Public Speaking) | |
| Public Speaking: The Communication Model | |
| Three Components of a Speech | |
| Preparing the Presentation | |
| Final Note | |
| Connecting Public Speaking to Your Career | |
| LEarning From Groups | |
| A Primer On Interpersonal Skills | |
| Interpersonal Communications and the Communication Model | |
| Two Skills for Interpersonal Communication | |
| Conditions for Developing Interpersonal Communication | |
| Connecting Interpersonal Skills to Your Career and Life | |
| Suggested Answers to "Changing You-Messages to I-Messages" | |
| Learning In Class And Study Groups | |
| The Class Group | |
| Learning Orientation | |
| Study Groups | |
| Connecting Groups to Your Career | |
| Learning From Campus Organizations, Residence Goups, The Workplace, And The College Climate | |
| Campus Organizations | |
| Residence Groups | |
| The Workplace | |
| Your College Climate | |
| Connecting These Groups to Your Career | |
| Epilogue | |
| Glossary | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
| Each chapter concludes with Action-Oriented Thought Starters and References and Recommended Readings | |
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