Choices for College Success - Couverture souple

Piscitelli, Steve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0137007515 ISBN 13 : 9780137007516

Editeur : Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

This is a book about personal choices--responsible choices that will help students get what they want from school and life. Throughout the text, students are asked, “What are you doing to get what you want?”

Each chapter and every activity demonstrates how responsible decision-making and follow-through put potential and ambition into action. Potential is the ability; ambition is the desire; and initiative is the doing. It demonstrates how organized action enhances academic success and helps create a healthy and balanced life.  As one reviewer stated, “The text tells the reader WHAT they need to know and HOW they need to do it.” Core changes to this edition include a pre- and post assessment, new financial management chapter, revised and enhance information literacy coverage, and test taking is expanded to two chapters (prep and performance).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

    Steve Piscitelli  has three decades of teaching and professional development experience.  He has taught students of varying abilities and grade levels, from middle school through the university level.  He has been recognized for his effective teaching style with awards at the school, county, and international level.  Steve is also a seasoned national workshop developer and presenter.  He brings energy, humor, interaction, live original music, and practicality to his classes and workshops.  He has presented in every region of the nation.

    Steve, a tenured professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville, has earned degrees from Jacksonville University, The University of North Florida, and The University of Florida.  He is also the author of Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff?, Second Edition, published by Pearson Prentice Hall in 2009.  Steve also wrote, produced, and recorded the CD Same Tune, Different Song.  He weaves his songs into his classes and his programs. 

    Steve lives with his wife, Laurie, and canine companion, Buddy, in Atlantic Beach, Florida.  You will find more information about Steve, his books, his music, and his programs You will find more information about Steve, his books, his music, and his programs at www.stevepiscitelli.com.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Choices for College Success asks students to make personal choices by addressing the question...

“What are you doing to get what you want?”

Each chapter and every activity demonstrates how initiating responsible decision-making and follow-through put potential and ambition into action. Potential is the ability; ambition is the desire; but it is the doing by the student that enhances academic success and helps create a healthy and balanced life.  As one reviewer stated, “The text tells the reader WHAT they need to know and HOW they need to do it.”

 

Features include:

• Theme of well-being, health, and balance threaded throughout the book.
• Time organization addressed early (Chapter 2).
• Chapter on civility and group dynamics thoroughly revised (Chapter 10).
• Financial literacy presented in its own complete chapter (Chapter 12).
• Testing strategies divided into two chapters: test preparation and memory (Chapter 7) and test performance (Chapter 8).
• Chapter on information literacy revised to include responsibilities of the information age (Chapter 9).
• Health chapter enhanced to focus on diet, exercise and physical conditioning (Chapter 11).
• "Review and Renew (R and R)" activity added at the end of each part (After Chapters 4, 9, 13).
• “Pre-assessment activity” and "Post-assessment activity" included for each chapter. 
• Student spotlights strategically placed to provide perspectives on challenges and choices first-year students must address.

For more information visit www.pearsonhighered.com/studentsuccess

 

Support ― in and out of the classroom…

 

In addition to an Instructor's manual, PowerPoint, and Test bank, this text may also be accompanied upon request by a rich resource for students: 

 

Start strong. Finish stronger.

 

www.MyStudentSuccessLab.com

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0137007515
• ISBN 13: 9780137007516
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie