Name: Step by Step to College and Career Success By John N. Gardner
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Step by Step to College and Career Success by John N. Gardner

User-friendly, class tested and authoritatively research-based, Step by Step to College and Career Success offers students proven information and straightforward strategies that they can apply toward their success. This is the briefest title in the Gardner family of books, with a focus on the most crucial skills and the most important choices students make in order to succeed in college and beyond.

This is a brief text for students taking first-year experience courses and freshman seminar courses.

About John N. Gardner

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to students as an author. The recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence, John has over forty years of experience directing and teaching in the most widely emulated first-year seminar in the country, the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. John is universally recognized as one of the country's leading educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as the first-year experience. He is the founding executive director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at USC, as well as the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (www.jngi.org), both based in Brevard, N.C
Betsy O. Barefoot is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose special area of scholarship is the first-year seminar. During her tenure at USC from 1988 to 1999, she served as co-director for research and publications at the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She also taught University 101 and graduate courses on the first-year experience and the principles of college teaching. She conducts first-year seminar faculty training workshops around the world and is frequently called on to evaluate first-year seminar outcomes. Betsy is co-director and senior scholar in the Policy Center on the First Year of College and Vice President of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education both in Brevard, N.C. In her Policy Center role she led a major national research project to identify institutions of excellence in the first college year. She currently works with both two- and four-year campuses in evaluating all components of the first year.

1. Starting Out on the Right Foot.- 2. Cultivating Motivation, Resilience, and Emotional Intelligence.- 3. Managing Your Time.- 4. Understanding How You Learn.- 5. Getting the Most Out of Class.- 6. Reading for Success.- 7. Taking Exams & Tests.- 8. Thinking in College.- 9. Developing Information Literacy and Communication Skills.- 10. Connecting with Others in a Diverse World.- 11. Managing Money.- 12. Staying Healthy.- 13. Considering Majors & Careers.

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CIN1319029175G

ISBN 13

9781319029173

ISBN 10

1319029175

Title

Step by Step to College and Career Success by John N. Gardner

Author

John N. Gardner

Condition

Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Macmillan Learning

Year published

20161007

Number of pages

256

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