The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students

The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students
Author: Jose M. Baltazar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012-05-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781469142227

JOSE M. BALTAZAR is an award-winning Counselor and Instructor. He has worked in higher education for over 35 years. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration, and Human and Organizational Development. He holds certifications in Human Motivation and Leadership, Accelerative Learning, Brain Based Learning, and Reality and Choice Theory Therapy. He has taught college study and learning skills for over 20 years, and has helped hundreds of students improve their performance in college level courses by training them to use Accelerative Learning strategies to improve memory, recall, comprehension, and concentration. He also provides training to college and public school instructors on how to integrate Accelerative Learning strategies into their lessons. He has co-authored two books: Building Blocks-College Study Skills, and Wake up!-Live the Life You Want to Live: Living Your Life on Purpose.

The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students

The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students
Author: Jose M. Baltazar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 146914221X

JOSE M. BALTAZAR is an award-winning Counselor and Instructor. He has worked in higher education for over 35 years. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration, and Human and Organizational Development. He holds certifications in Human Motivation and Leadership, Accelerative Learning, Brain Based Learning, and Reality and Choice Theory Therapy. He has taught college study and learning skills for over 20 years, and has helped hundreds of students improve their performance in college level courses by training them to use Accelerative Learning strategies to improve memory, recall, comprehension, and concentration. He also provides training to college and public school instructors on how to integrate Accelerative Learning strategies into their lessons. He has co-authored two books: Building Blocks-College Study Skills, and Wake up!-Live the Life You Want to Live: Living Your Life on Purpose.

Community College Student Success

Community College Student Success
Author: Vanessa Smith Morest
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442214821

Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies are drawn from community colleges that are engaging in reform. Morest offers a three-pronged approach for community college leaders seeking to improve the success of their students. First, community college leaders need to look around at the technological transformation that has occurred in other service sectors and import some of these ideas to student services. Second, community college leaders need to explicitly socialize their students to become college students and to bond with their community college. Finally, improving the quality of teaching is particularly important with regard to developmental education, where students are attempting to master material that they have ostensibly been taught in the past.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning
Author: Peggy Grant
Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1564845443

Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology is designed to help educators make sense of the shifting landscape in modern education. While changes may pose significant challenges, they also offer countless opportunities to engage students in meaningful ways to improve their learning outcomes. Personalized learning is the key to engaging students, as teachers are leading the way toward making learning as relevant, rigorous, and meaningful inside school as outside and what kids do outside school: connecting and sharing online, and engaging in virtual communities of their own Renowned author of the Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go series, Dale Basye, and award winning educator Peggy Grant, provide a go-to tool available to every teacher today—technology as a way to ‘personalize’ the education experience for every student, enabling students to learn at their various paces and in the way most appropriate to their learning styles.

What We Know About CSCL

What We Know About CSCL
Author: Jan-Willem Strijbos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1402077793

This book is the first that presents an overview of the main topics involved in the study and implementation of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) from a learning viewpoint. It is also one of the few - or the only one - that does this from a research and practical instructional design perspective. Too many books begin with the medium and/or the environments used for CSCL, as if you would write a book on building a house by focusing almost primarily on hammers, saws and screwdrivers. The main topics are clustered in four sections that are derived from reverse ordering the CSCL acronym, because CSCL is all about learning through collaboration that is supported by computers. Although CSCL is increasingly advocated in higher education, specific CSCL implementations - i.e. something more than providing technology without a well developed educational rationale - are uncommon in higher education. The topics covered in this book, each including a review and several examples of current best practices in higher education, can stimulate 'informed' implementation of CSCL in higher education.

Using ESL Students’ First Language to Promote College Success

Using ESL Students’ First Language to Promote College Success
Author: Andrea Parmegiani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351584073

Emerging from a critical analysis of the glocal power of English and how it relates to academic literacy and culturally responsive pedagogy, this book presents translanguaging strategies for using ESL students' mother tongue as a resource for academic literacy acquisition and college success. Parmegiani offers a strong counterpoint to the "English-only" movement in the United States. Grounded in a case study of a learning community linking Spanish and English academic writing courses, he demonstrates that a mother tongue-based pedagogical intervention and the strategic use of minority home languages can promote English language acquisition and academic success.

How Tutoring Works

How Tutoring Works
Author: Nancy Frey
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071856073

Build students’ confidence and competence with tutoring strategies that spark meaningful, accelerated learning. Tutoring is much more than telling students information. Effective tutoring begins with the strong and caring relationship a tutor establishes with a learner to build trust, fuel motivation, and drive critical learning. How Tutoring Works distills the complexity of strategic moves effective tutors make to build students’ confidence and competence. Harnessing decades of Visible Learning® research, this easy to read, eye-opening guide details the six essential components of any effective tutoring intervention—establishing a relationship and credibility, addressing student confidence and challenges, setting shared goals, helping a student learn how to learn, teaching and learning content, and establishing a habit of deliberate practice. Indispensable for any educator who intervenes with students, this rich resource includes: Examples of impactful tutoring conversations, including what to say and what not to say when building a relationship with a learner. Specific approaches to use when establishing credibility, addressing challenges to learning, leveraging the relevance of knowledge, setting goals, and ensuring practice. Learning strategies, with effect size, for teaching and learning content, including specific strategies for improving reading, writing, and mathematics. Tips and tools for helping students develop powerful cognitive, metacognitive, and affective study skills. Resources and advice for establishing an effective and transformational tutoring program. Done well, tutoring can repair a student’s damaged relationship to learning, address unrealized potential, and alter the course of a young person’s life. A strong and nurturing relationship between tutor and learner is key.

Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces

Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces
Author: Rhonda C. Grego
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0809327724

"Rhonda C. Grego and Nancy S. Thompson argue that because the studio is physically and institutionally "outside but alongside" both students' other coursework and the hierarchy of the institution, it represents a "thirdspace," a unique position in which to effect institutional change. Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces provides an alternative approach to traditional basic writing courses that can be adopted in educational institutions of all types and at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.

Rebound, Grades K-12

Rebound, Grades K-12
Author: Douglas Fisher
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071850504

For more than a year now, we educators have been tested and tested again. We’ve been stretched, we’ve been pulled, we’ve been put through the wringer. But now it’s time to "rebound." It’s time to bounce back, come back better, and benefit from the many lessons learned to reignite engagement, accelerate learning, and move forward with fresh optimism and better systems for schooling. Enter Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie, whose Distance Learning Playbooks have supported more than a half million educators across pandemic teaching and who are here now to advise you on this next, absolutely critical leg of our ongoing journey. Complete with tools and strategies, prompts and exercises, Rebound: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools will help you: Address the collective traumas we have experienced during the pandemic and rebuild our sense of agency and self, so that we can attribute student success to both teachers’ and students’ efforts Evaluate what we have learned about remote teaching and learning to determine what to carry forward and what to leave behind Shift the narrative from learning loss to "learning leaps" and implement instructional and assessment practices that ensure our students reclaim lost knowledge, build skills, develop agency, and accelerate gains Redefine classrooms, learning experiences, the ways schools operate, and the very idea of schooling itself "The greatest travesty that can arise for schools after 2020/21," Doug, Nancy, Dominique, and John write, "is to rush back to the old normal, and learn nothing, or little, about what worked well. That’s why this book has focused on rebounding, and taking the opportunity to create an even better schooling system, one that serves even more students, and focuses more on what matters most." "Let′s agree not to reduce the impact that our expectations have on students′ learning. What if we talk about learning leaps instead of learning loss? What if we identify where students are in their learning and identify critical content that they must learn now to accelerate their performance in the future? And what if we raise our expectations for students rather than lower them?" —Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie