Study Skills For High School Students - Softcover

Carol Carter; Dylan Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974204439 ISBN 13: 9780974204437

Publisher: LifeBound, 2017

Synopsis

This book equips students with the keys for effective study skills: goal setting, learning styles, active note taking, preparing for tests, and critical thinking skills. This book will help students: 1. Discover their learning style-so they can study smarter, not harder. 2. Learn test-taking and study techniques that can result in higher test scores. 3. Improve memory to make learning easier. 4. Develop critical thinking skills that can be used in school and in life. 5. Set goals and accomplish them too.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Carter is a national and international student success author and speaker. At the college level, her KEYS TO SUCCESS series is used by more than 200,000 freshmen each year throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and China. For over a decade, Carol has also been president of LifeBound, a student success and transition company, which publishes books, conducts training in academic coaching skills and provides teacher training in K-12. LifeBound’s goal is to eradicate developmental education at the college level in the next decade by better preparing incoming freshmen with college level skills, especially in the areas of critical thinking, writing, math, and reasoning abilities. Carol is the author of eleven books for students in grades 5-12, as well as curricula, and she is the co-author of a book for parents: Stop Parenting and Start Coaching. LifeBound recently published her books Dollars & Sense: How to Be Smart About Money, Critical and Creative Thinking for Teenagers, and Leadership for Teenagers. Carol shares her professional experience with students to encourage them to think globally as they make their way into the world of work. In her most recent college-level book, Keys to Business Success, she interviews new and seasoned professionals that give students perspective of the global market, the growing trend in entrepreneurship, and the importance of communicating professionally in a digital world. Carol is featured as a national and international keynote speaker, as well as in the media, addressing issues on teen and young adult success. An innovator in student leadership and world-class skills, Carol has been a guest in over fifty countries, and she has worked with schools and associations as a keynote speaker around the world in many of these locations. In 2009, Carol gave the opening keynote address for the Tri-Association (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Dominican Republic, and in January of 2010, she was the keynote speaker for Spectrum Education’s “Teachers Matter” annual conferences in Australia and New Zealand. This last year, Carol participated on the panel of the Grace Institute of Technology in Atlanta and the Innovation in Education Conference in New York. In 2011, she also spoke at the Southern Nevada Math and Science Conference in Las Vegas, the NADE conference in Washington D.C. on the topic of Successful Intelligence: Using Coaching to Promote Global Success, and AISA Educator’s Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

About this edition

• Publisher: LifeBound
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0974204439
• ISBN 13: 9780974204437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168