The Essential Guide to Becoming a Master Student (Textbook-specific CSFI) - Softcover

Ellis, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495913715 ISBN 13: 9780495913719

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2011

Synopsis

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT, 2nd Edition, promotes student success by providing strategies and processes that will help readers discover their abilities and reach their full potential in the classroom and beyond. The 160 page brief text, perfect for first year experience courses, orientation courses, and other short programs, allows readers to focus on core concepts integral for success in an easy-to-read, short article format. Each page invites readers to put new ideas into action immediately and select additional strategies as they plan for their future. With the Discovery Wheel, a new design and the addition of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT, 2nd Edition, continues to lead the way in meeting the changing needs of today's first-year students.

About this title

About the Author

Dave Ellis is a leadership coach, author, educator, and philanthropist. He is a respected lecturer and electrifying workshop leader who has captivated audiences worldwide since first sharing his principles in 1979. Ellis got started in education in 1976, when he taught junior high school math. After getting a master's degree in mathematics, he taught computer science for six years at National American University, where he became Assistant Dean of Student Services. In 1979, he designed a course to improve student retention and then traveled the country for a decade conducting workshops for teachers on ways to improve student retention and test scores. He began training coaches in 1983 and started a public course for coaches in 1993. From Master Student to Master Employee is based on Ellis's best-selling textbook Becoming a Master Student. He puts into practice the principles he teaches, utilizing his remarkable system in his own life. His friends and colleagues often describe him as the happiest person they know with an amazingly wonderful life. He is president of Breakthrough Enterprises, a publishing and consulting company, as well as founder and president of The Brande Foundation, a nonprofit organization offering assistance to organizations working toward world sufficiency, environmental integrity, human rights, and personal transformation. Ellis has contributed millions of dollars to the work of his foundation and to other organizations. You can visit Ellis's website at http://www.daveellisleadership.com. Dave Ellis resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Trisha. Together they have four daughters and four grandchildren.

Review

"THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT is appropriately structured to meet the needs of a 2 hour course. I expect that it would be equally effective and usable for a 1 hour course or even a 3 hour course." -- Andrew Alt, Bowling Green University

"THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT's greatest strength, in all honesty, would be the sincerity of the book. The features convey a sense that the authors are seriously, personally interested in the academic success of their student audience." -- Ryan Guth, Lambuth University

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0495913715
• ISBN 13: 9780495913719
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160