Kickoff to Success
This Course Activity will help you meet these educational goals:
21st Century Skills—You will use critical thinking and problem solving skills and communicate effectively.
Introduction
This course activity is your opportunity to define the foundation on which you’ll build improvements in study habits, keeping in mind the goals you set and your definition of success.
Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. When you have finished, submit your work to your teacher.
__________________________________________________________________________
Directions and Analysis
Task 1: Defining Success
Take some time to reflect on what success means to you
…show more content…
Nice quite room where no one can bother you, being able to work on your Assignments without being to bothered by people/objects/sounds.
How do you take notes to record the content of your classes?
Key terms/Highlights of the topic
How do you prepare for tests?
Study with notes and assignments.
How and how well do you manage your study time and anticipate deadlines?
Depends on the subject and the time applied for this.
How do you balance your social life and your study time?
What social life? Work? Between work and class, I have no free time. Balancing them between eachother is hard enough.
b. Now answer these questions, in 3-4 sentences, about how effective you think your study habits are.
1. How satisfied are you with the results of your current study habits? Explain.
Type your response here: Decently satisfied seeing as I havnt really needed to study for anything in a primarly long time.
2. What qualities about your study habits do you think you could improve? Explain why they need improvement and what about them should change.
Type your response here:Studying in general would be a big advantage.
Task 3: Learning Styles
Think about the classes you currently take and those you’ve taken in the past. Consider the ways in which you preferred to learn.
a. Answer the multiple-choice questions below. Choose the first
NOTE: Please write your answers to each question in a different color font to make this easier for the Professor to grade.
You are to work on this assignment alone without assistance from others; however, you may use your text, class lectures and your notes in completing the assignment.
Type the answers to the assignment questions below. Use complete sentences unless the question says otherwise. You will have more than one day to complete an assignment. At the end of each day, be sure to save your progress.
Shellenbarger presents five ways to improve your study skills. Through other people’s experiences and studies Shellenbarger is able to support her claim of the helpful tips for getting the most from your studying while appealing to her audience through her organization and relevant references.
Nobody works in a single mode and very little of our communication is possible in a single mode. etc.
Fill in your name above, put your answer below each question, and then return this document for grading following the instructions in the syllabus. Please provide detailed answers to support all of the questions. Use examples from the readings, or from your own research, to support answers. The assignment must be 1-page in length with a minimum of 2 outside sources.
The homework assignments are submitted using the WileyPlus software available with the textbook. Homework must be submitted by the due date and time. You are allowed three submissions on the homework.
Read Lake and von Baeyer's article, “Tips for Successful Students." Also, review the characteristics of a successful student as explained in the lecture. As you consider these, which is your strongest characteristic? Why? How will this characteristic help you to become a successful student in your program of study?
Download this document and type your answers after each question. For each question provide a brief but complete answer to the question (you should write in complete sentences and proofread your work for spelling and grammatical errors). Note that the answer may be found in more than one place. Remember that you should write in your own words. Do not copy and paste from the original
Please remember to respond to one of your classmates post. Since your assignment was late, I did deduct one point.
I knew, I would do all right in speech and writing courses. Math was never my strong point. However, I found out that I would have to take a remedial math course before enrolling in the math course for computer science. I also discovered that since I had not taken physics in high school. I would have to complete a college physics course before beginning the science courses. Most working students also find out as I did that they have very little time for homework, they have to reduce their courses loads.
Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. _________________________________________________________________________
Note: This is a pass/fail assignment. You must submit it on time to pass and get feedback. I will review each assignment and give some general feedback along with a possible grading had the assignment been graded using the
To achieve good grades in high school a person must be disciplined in their study habits. Once a person reaches high school these habits must be ingrained into the personality of the young person so that they are second nature or it is to late.
1. Reflect on and evaluate your own learning needs and your strategies for success in your university study and beyond;