Integrating Student Success Skills





 
 

Integrating Student Success Skills
     
Goal Setting  
  		 Setting goals is key to student success whether the goals are academic, career, and life goals.  Students who learn to set and monitor goals stay in school longer.
    Personal Goal Setting:  The process of setting goals helps one choose where to go in life
    7 Steps to Setting Goals:  This analogy to using a map to travel is helpful in setting goals.
Efficient Text Reading 4 YOU    Faculty are challenged to use these techniques in their advisement sessions and classes.
    Handling Reading:  Articles about reading pre-testing; concentration; remembering.
 
    Unlocking Your Textbook:  Article on how to improve concentration
 
    Active Reading Checklist:  A survey to determine whether "You are an Active Reader"
 
    Tips to Improve Reading Speed:  Eight ways to increase reading speed.
 
Identify and Use Learning Styles    Faculty are challenged to use these techniques in their advisement sessions and classes.
    The VARK Learning Styles Site:    A site when students can discover their own styles.
 
    Learning Styles:  Student can discover if they learn using multiple intelligences
 
Note Taking    Note taking skills are critical to academic performance.
    Taking Notes and Listening: Features a way to choose a note taking system
 
    Taking Lecture Notes:  Shows how to develop your own note taking system using 5 Rs
 
Test Taking Strategies   Faculty are challenged to use these techniques in their advisement sessions and classes.
    10 Commandments of Test Taking
 
    Test Taking Strategies:  How to prepare and take various types of tests.
 
    Test Anxiety:  How to overcome test anxiety
 
Time Management Ideas and Templates   Faculty are challenged to use these techniques in their advisement sessions and classes.
    The 168 Hour Exercise:  How do I use my time?  An interactive exercise.
 
    Where Does Time Go:  A different interactive exercise to determine where you use time.
 
    A Time Use Chart:  Use this chart to schedule your actual time tasks.
 
    Time Management Pre-Test:  This test helps one discover how well they use time.
 
A Bonus: Using APA Style   A site where students can learn how to use the APA style.

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