Keys to Success : Building Successful Intelligence and Achieving Your Goals

Designed for courses in Student Orientation, Student Success, and College/University Preparation. 

How can students get the most out of college and use what they learn to achieve their goals in an everchanging world?  This new edition focuses on helping students build successful intelligence — a combination of analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills that will help you achieve your most important goals in Education, Career, and Life.

The fourth Canadian edition of Keys to Success integrates Robert Sternberg’s concept of successful intelligence as an underlying structure.  Powered by this theory, Keys to Success aims to help students know and believe in themselves, set and achieve their goals, learn throughout their lives, discover careers that fulfill and support them, build relationships with others from all backgrounds and walks of life, and experience the challenges and rewards that make life meaningful.  

The success of this text is simple — When students understand how material will help them get where they want to go, they will become more motivated and able to retain what they learn.   Covering a wide range of topics, including health issues, diversity and financial tips, this text's engaging content and design will appeal to all ages and types (full-time, part-time, working, parenting) of students.

Carol Carter is founder of Lifebound, a career coaching company that offers individual coaching sessions and seminars for high school students, college students, and career seekers.  She has written and co-authored multiple texts.  She has taught welfare-to-work classes, team taught in the La Familia Scholars program, and conducted numerous workshops for students and faculty around the country.  Carol is a national college and career expert and is interviewed regularly in print, on the radio, and for television news programs. 

Joyce Bishop holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has taught for more than 20 years, receiving a number of honors, including Teacher of the Year for 1995 and 2000.  For five years she has been voted "favorite teacher" by the student body and Honor Society at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, where she has taught since 1987 and is a tenured professor.  She worked with a federal grant to establish Learning Communities and Workplace Learning in her district, and has developed workshops and trained faculty in cooperative learning, active learning, multiple intelligences, workplace relevancy, learning styles, authentic assessment, team building, and the development of learning communities.  Joyce currently teaches on-line and multimedia classes, and trains other faculty within her 21 college district.  In addition, she has co-authored multiple texts and is the lead academic for the Lifelong Learning Telecourse. 

Sarah Lyman Kravits comes from a family of educators and has long cultivated an interest in educational development.  She has co-authored several books and has served a Program Director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to further the career and personal development of high school students.  In this role, she helped facilitate both curricular and organizational elements of the program, working closely with instructors as well as members of the business community.  Sarah has also given workshops on critical thinking.

Peter J. Maurin received his Master's degree in sociology form McMaster University in 1992.  He is currently teaching in the Media Studies Department at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario.   In the past, he has been a student advisor for the General Arts and Science Program at Mohawk, and has taught at Seneca College, Niagara College, and Brock University.  The Fourth Canadian edition of Keys to Success is Peter’s eighth book for Pearson Education.  Besides teaching, Peter is a professional communicator: He is a freelance writer and broadcaster, logging more than 20 years on the air for several radio station in Ontario.  He’s also an old rock and roller.  His weekly radio show “Oldies Without Borders” can be heard Sundays form 10am until noon online at http://mohawkcollege.ca