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Feldman Dean College Of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Robert S

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ISBN 10: 0071319115 ISBN 13: 9780071319119

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2011

Synopsis

Succeed Now: School, Career and Life!

P.O.W.E.R. Learning and Your Life introduces Canadian students to the P.O.W.E.R. Learning process, an approach to systematically completing tasks based on five steps: Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink. Each step in the process provides students with appropriate strategies, tactics, techniques, hints, and tips to achieve success in their academic, career, and personal lives.

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About the Authors

Bob Feldman still remembers those moments of being overwhelmed when he started college at Wesleyan University. “I wondered whether I was up to the challenges that faced me,” he recalls, “and―although I never would have admitted it at the time―I really had no idea what it took to be successful at college.”

That experience, along with his encounters with many students during his own teaching career, led to a life-long interest in helping students navigate the critical transition that they face at the start of their own college careers. Professor Feldman, who went on to receive a doctorate in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is now Deputy Chancellor and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is founding director of POWER Up for Student Success, the first-year experience course for incoming students.

Professor Feldman’s proudest professional accomplishment is winning the College Outstanding Teaching Award at UMass. He also has been named a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and was Senior Online Instruction Fellow. He has taught courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Professor Feldman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award and has written over 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. His books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese, include Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice; Understanding Psychology, 12/e; and Development Across the Life Span, 7/e. His research interests encompass the study of honesty and truthfulness in everyday life, development of nonverbal behavior in children, and the social psychology of education. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.

With the last of his three children completing college, Professor Feldman occupies his spare time with pretty decent cooking and earnest, but admittedly unpolished, piano playing. He also loves to travel. He lives with his wife, who is an educational psychologist, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range in western Massachusetts.

Danica Lavoie vividly recalls leaving Dalhousie, a small town in Northern New Brunswick (pop. 3600) and arriving, at the tender age of 17, in Toronto (pop. 2 million) to attend Humber College. A lover of books and reading, she'd nonetheless decided to enroll in a one-year fashion modeling program to do some growing up and to give herself time to learn her way around the big city. She soon felt like a fish out of water, having to strut a makeshift catwalk in high heels on a daily basis. By the end of the first semester, she decided to transfer to another program at the college and there she met some wonderful professors who inspired her to go on to university. She eventually obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Business Administration from York University's Faculty of Administrative Studies, now known as the Schulich School of Business.

While studying for her MBA, Danica was offered the opportunity by one of her former professors to teach part-time at Humber College, where she'd been a student only a few years before. Even though she was only 22 at the time, it was this teaching experience that many years motivated her to return to the classroom after a successful career in banking and as an entrepreneur. These days, she is a Professor at Centennial College in Toronto, where she teaches marketing and business courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Professor Lavoie has never regretted moving from her lucrative business career into teaching, noting that "every semester is different, and every day brings a chance to make a difference in a student’s life".

Professor Lavoie lives just outside Toronto with her husband Martin and her German Munsterlander dog, Marley. When she isn't teaching or writing, she enjoys cooking, travelling and playing Scrabble on Facebook.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071319115
• ISBN 13: 9780071319119
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336