Definitely Awesome! Become the outstanding student you know you can become! Start enjoying your classes more when you see your grades improve! The strategies in “30 Awesome High School Reading and Learning Strategies” require no extra work and no extra materials with easy to follow directions. Students learn to match class assignments with one of the thirty reading and learning strategies plus three bonus strategies that emphasize mathematics, science, and history. Students become actively involved following the step by step directions. Each strategy is designed to promote a high level of understanding and retention. During high school students should become familiar with and acquire many reading and learning strategies so they can begin to match an assignment with a suitable strategy. The GPS (Getting the Perfect Strategy) helps students find the most appropriate strategy for each assigned task. The strategies in “30 Awesome High School Reading and Learning Strategies” also strengthen reading comprehension, which is one of the most, if not the most important skill, students need for advanced education.
Kay Lopate, Ph.D and Patsy Trand, Ph.D are faculty members at the University of Miami and Florida International University, respectively, where they both teach undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Education and Arts and Sciences. As faculty at their respective universities, they have about 30 years each as faculty and administrators in academic support programs such as the reading lab, athletic labs, and writing labs. They both taught in developmental education programs, First Year in College programs, the Honor’s College, and the English department. They have decades of experience helping students excel in college; and have a talent for helping freshmen, athletes, minorities, international students, and just good students succeed to graduation. They have a combined sixty years of experience in teaching reading, study skills, and learning skills. Their special interests include preparing all students to complete their college degree. While helping students who are just entering college, they also held numerous workshops and presentations for students in complex domains – medical school students, business school students, nursing school students, and graduate school students. Learning continues pass the undergraduate degree and sometimes “bad grades happen to good students.” And this too can be fixed!
