P.O.W.E.R.

P.O.W.E.R.

1. Why Go to College?

   • motivations for attending college is to further your career
     • surveys of first-year college students at all types of institutions show that the vast majority say they want to learn about things that interest them, get training for a specific career, land a better job, and make more money
   • School Experiences
     • reasons for pursuing a college education:
       • You’ll learn to think critically and communicate better
         • You’ll be able to better deal with advances in knowledge and technology that are changing the world.
           • You’ll acquire skills and perspectives that will shape how you deal with new situations and challenges.
             • You’ll be better prepared to live in a world of diversity.
               • You’ll make learning a lifelong habit.

2. The Five Key Steps to Achieving Success

   • Prepare
     • Setting Goals
       • Set both long-term and short-term goals.
         • Make goals realistic and attainable
           • State goals in terms of behavior that can be measured against current accomplishments.
             • Goals should involve behavior over which you have control.
   • Organize
     • Physical
       • involving the mechanical aspects of task completion
     • Mental
       • is accomplished by considering and reviewing the academic skills that you’ll need to successfully complete the task at hand.
   • Work
     • Motivation
       • Take responsibility for your failures—and successes.
         • Think positively
           • Accept that you can’t control everything
   • Evaluate
     • me steps too follow in evaluating what you’ve accomplished:
       • Take a moment to congratulate yourself and feel some satisfaction.
         • Compare what you’ve accomplished with the goals you’re seeking to achieve
           • Evaluate what you’ve done as if you were your current instructor or supervisor.
             • Based on your evaluation, revise your work
   • Rethink
     • steps provide a general framework for using critical thinking to rethink what you’ve accomplished
       • Review how you’ve accomplished the task
         • Question the outcome
           • Identify your underlying assumptions; then challenge them.

3. Completing the Process

   • Know that there’s always another day
     • Realize that deciding when to stop work is often as hard as getting started
       • Use the strategies that already work for you

4. Discovering Your Learning Styles

   • Receptive Learning Style
     • Read/write learning style.
       • Visual/graphic learning style.
         • Auditory/verbal learning style.
           • Tactile/kinesthetic learning style.
   • Multiple Intelligences
     • Logical-mathematical intelligence
       • Linguistic intelligence
         • Spatial intelligence
           • Spatial intelligence
             • Intrapersonal intelligence
               • Musical intelligence
                 • Naturalist intelligence
                   • Bodily kinesthetic intelligence
   • Personality Styles
     • Introverts versus extraverts.
       • Intuitors versus sensors.
         • Thinkers versus feelers.
           • Perceivers and judgers.