Keys to Success: How to Achieve Your Goals (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Carter, Carol; Bishop, Joyce; Kravits, Sarah Lyman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138610894 ISBN 13: 9780138610890

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 1998

Synopsis

This brief version of the best-selling book connects college skills with career and life success. With its learn-by-doing emphasis, it encourages users to think critically about their choices and goals. The Campbell Interest and Skill Survey appears as an appendix. The critical thinking and reading chapters describe media literacy and provide information about how to take in and critically evaluate information that comes through the media. Diversity & Communication material encourages readers to question diversity issues and look critically at causes, effects, and solutions to problems. Additional pertinent skill building topics include: oral presentations, technology, planning curriculum, and learning disabilities. Also, this edition now contains a substantial wellness section. For readers interested in developing skills necessary to compete and succeed in today's workforce.

About this title

From the Publisher

With its active "learn–by–doing" approach, this textbook establishes the skills needed for learning and career and life achievement. Critical thinking techniques improve students' effectiveness in school and the workplace. These skills serve as a continual source of information and inspiration. Positive self–awareness, confidence, and responsibility are fostered by building skills in goal–setting, problem–solving, decision–making, wellness, basic academic skills, study skills, and communication. Students learn to manage their time and their budgets. They will establish strong foundations in ethics and relations with people at home, at school, and at work. The text is both affirming and challenging to students, encouraging them to reach new heights.

About the Author

CAROL CARTER is Vice President and Director of Student Programs and Faculty Development at Prentice Hall. She has written Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: Career Secrets for College Students and Majoring in High School. She has also co-authored The Career Tool Kit, Keys to Career Success, Keys to Study Skills, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Effective Learning. She has taught welfare to work classes, team taught in the LaFamilia Scholars Program at Community College of Denver, and has conducted numerous workshops for students and faculty around the country. She is the host of the Keys to Lifelong Learning Telecourse, a twenty-six episode telecourse to help students at a distance prepare for college, career, and life success. In addition to working with students of all ages, Carol thrives on foreign travel and culture; she has been fortunate enough to have been a guest in forty foreign countries.

JOYCE BISHOP holds a Ph.D. and license in clinical psychology and has taught for more than twenty years, receiving a number of honors, including Teacher of the Year. For the past four years she has been voted "favorite teacher" by the student body and Honor Society at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA, where she has taught since 1986 and is a tenured professor. She is currently working with a federal grant to establish Learning Communities and Workplace Learning in her district. A keynote speaker at national conferences, she is developing an extensive online faculty development program in the areas of multiple intelligences, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and curriculum development for hybrid classes. She also co-authored Key to Effective Learning, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Study Skills. Joyce is the lead academic of the Keys to Lifelong Learning Telecourse, distributed by Dallas Telelearning.

SARAH LYMAN KRAVITS is a student of life with a passion for learning. In her drive to help others discover their love for learning—and their essential selves—she has spent the last six years writing, researching, talking to students, and talking to teachers in pursuit of the best possible textbooks on student success. She has co-authored The Career Tool Kit, Keys to Success, Keys to Effective Learning, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Study Skills. She originally hooked into the world of student success as Program Director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to further the career and personal development of high school students. Even earlier, being a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia helped to bring her love of learning to new levels. She encourages readers to make the most of this time in school—it is an incredible gift.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0138610894
• ISBN 13: 9780138610890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 425
• Editor: Bucher Richard D.