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P.O.W.E.R. Learning: becoming an expert student

Chapter 1. P.O.W.E.R. Learning: becoming an expert student. Why Go to College?. 1- 2. Train for a specific career Learn about things that interest you College graduates earn, on average, 75% more income than high school graduates over their lifetime. Why Go to College?. 1- 3.

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P.O.W.E.R. Learning: becoming an expert student

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  1. Chapter 1 P.O.W.E.R. Learning: becoming an expert student

  2. Why Go to College? 1-2 • Train for a specific career • Learn about things that interest you • College graduates earn, on average, 75% more income than high school graduates over their lifetime

  3. Why Go to College? 1-3 • Other reasons include: • Learn to think critically • Better able to adapt to advances in knowledge and technology • Better able to adapt to new situations • Be prepared to live in a world of diversity • Make learning a lifelong habit

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  5. 5 Key Steps to Achieving Success 1-5 • P.O.W.E.R. Learning • Is a process • Requires personal investment • Use these following strategies to help you in situations in college and beyond

  6. 5 Key Steps to Achieving Success 1-6 • PREPARE • You need to know where you’re headed • Set long-term and short-term goals • Make goals realistic and attainable • Make goals measurable • Set goals that reflect changes over which you have control

  7. 5 Key Steps to Achieving Success 1-7 • ORGANIZE • Organize the tools you need to accomplish your goals • Physical Organization • Mechanical aspects of task completion • Gather tools, such as computer, printer, and office supplies • Mental Organization • Academic skills necessary for task completion • Organize what you know to pave the way for subsequent learning of the material

  8. 5 Key Steps to Achieving Success 1-8 • WORK • Finding the motivation to work • Tap into, harness and direct your motivation • Effort produces success • Take responsibility for your successes and failures • Think positively • Accept that you can’t control everything

  9. 5 Key Steps to Achieving Success 1-9 • EVALUATE • Take some time to congratulate yourself for completing the goal • Does your completed work match your goals for it? • Look at your work objectively as if you were a former teacher assessing it • Look at your work as if your current instructor were assessing it • Revise as needed

  10. 5 Key Steps to Achieving Success 1-10 • RETHINK • Bring a fresh eye to your completed work • Involves critical thinking • Reanalyzing, questioning, and challenging underlying assumptions • Question the outcome • Consider previously rejected alternatives

  11. Completing the Process 1-11 • Perfectionism gets in the way • Don’t fall victim to self-defeating thoughts • Know when to stop • Use strategies that already work for you

  12. Discovering Your Learning Style 1-12 • Learning styles • How we acquire and use knowledge • Many different methods • What is your preferred receptive learning style? • Read/write style • Visual/graphic style • Auditory/verbal style • Tactile/kinesthetic style

  13. Discovering Your Learning Style 1-13 • Theory of Multiple Intelligences – “How Are You Smart?” • Logical-mathematical • Problem solving and scientific thinking • Linguistic intelligence • Production and use of language

  14. Discovering Your Learning Style 1-14 • Spatial intelligence • Spatial configurations, such as those used by artists and architects • Interpersonal intelligence • Interacting with others and a sensitivity to moods, temperaments, and motivations of others

  15. Discovering Your Learning Style 1-15 • Theory of Multiple Intelligences – “How Are You Smart?” • Intrapersonal intelligence • Strong understanding of the internal aspects of oneself and access to emotions • Musical intelligence • Skills related to music

  16. Discovering Your Learning Style 1-16 • Bodily kinesthetic intelligence • Skill in using the body in the solution of problems – dancers, athletes, actor, surgeon • Naturalist intelligence • Skills in identifying and classifying patterns in nature

  17. Personality Styles 1-17 • Four major personality dimensions • Most of us fall between the end points of each dimension • Introverts vs. Extroverts • Intuitors vs. Sensors • Thinkers vs. Feelers • Perceivers vs. Judgers

  18. The Origins of Our Learning Styles 1-18 • Left-brain processing • Verbal competence (reading, speaking, thinking, and reasoning) • Information is processed sequentially • Right-brain processing • Nonverbal competence (spatial relationships, recognition of patterns and drawings, music, and emotional expression) • Information processed globally

  19. The Origins of Our Learning Styles 1-19 • You have a variety of styles • Your style reflects your preferences regarding which ability you like to use • Your style will change throughout your life • You should work on using less-preferred styles • Work cooperatively with others who have different styles

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