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The 4Rs of Student Success Steve Piscitelli Florida Community College at Jacksonville

The 4Rs of Student Success Steve Piscitelli Florida Community College at Jacksonville. Major classroom concerns of teachers. Attendance: I can’t teach them if they are not in the class! Time: How do I cover everything?

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The 4Rs of Student Success Steve Piscitelli Florida Community College at Jacksonville

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  1. The 4Rs of Student SuccessSteve PiscitelliFlorida Community College at Jacksonville spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  2. Major classroom concerns of teachers • Attendance: I can’t teach them if they are not in the class! • Time: How do I cover everything? • Energy: How do I maintain their energy over the span of an entire semester? • Creativity: I’m not spontaneous—and I have so much to cover spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  3. Classroom motivation—some thoughts • What are your colleagues saying? • What do students find motivating? spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  4. What do your students bring to the table? • Fact: College is different from high school and it is different than the world of work. • Fact: College courses will require the students to work with large volumes of material. • Fact: College-level work will require the students to re-evaluate the study skills and relationship skills they bring to campus. • Fact: Students already have skills, knowledge and strategies that will help them be successful in college. spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

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  6. The 4Rs Respect spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  7. A reflective activity: What skills do your students bring to the table? • List 3 skills your students bring to the table that can help them be successful students. spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  8. A reflective activity: What skills do your students lack when they come to the table? • List 3 skills your students do notbring to the table. • How can they use the skills they do have to address the skills they do not have? spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  9. The 4Rs Responsibility spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  10. The Change Cycle (Beck) spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  11. The nudge factor: Getting unstuck • Stage one: Refusal to move on • “Woundology” (Myss) • Fantasies rather than dreams • Stick-to-itiveness • Don’t rest on laurels spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  12. The motivated learner: Mindsets are important spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  13. What strategies do you use to help students move toward being a more responsible student? spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  14. The 4Rs Reflection spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  15. Building a relationship with your classmates • What makes a good study buddy? • Strengths? • Candidates? • Why these choices? • How and when to approach? • Benefits to you? • Benefits you provide? spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  16. Assessing a study group • Has the group been beneficial to you? • In what ways? • Has the group been detrimental to you? • In what ways? • Is this the right choice for you? • How do you know? spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  17. Campus snapshots spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  18. Building a relationship with your professors [Remember the foreign-native model!] spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  19. Teacher reflection spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  20. Motivators, reflection and the time crunch • Some that are quickies • That’s Me! • The Love Bucket • Today in History roll call • Humor…more in a moment…. • Some that take a little longer • PIGs • 5-in-1 review • The Mingo Flamingo Collection of Highly Sought-After Memorabilia spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  21. The 4Rs Renewal spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  22. Using humor—some thoughts (Berk) • Your thoughts • Unexpected • Appropriateness • Syllabus: cautionary notes • Instructor “qualifications” • Photos and pictures • Roll call humor • Material on tests • Music—recorded or live spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  23. [reflect/respect] [reflect/responsibility and change] [responsibility] http://www.srlatcitytech.com/home.php. spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  24. Maintaining a healthy balance:The wellness model (National Wellness Institute, Six Dimensional Wellness Model ) www.nationalwellness.org/aboutus/index.php?id=167&id_tier=1. spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  25. “Turning on the peopleNow, that’s a beautiful place to beBut if I spend my time Making them up a rhymeWell, who’s gonna turn on me?”-Jimmy Buffett- What are you doing to maintain your balance? spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  26. Where do you go from here? (generally speaking) • Teaching circles • Teaching lounges • Teaching and learning centers • TGIFs • Track down “nutritious people” spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

  27. Where do you want to go? What do you want to do? (specifically speaking) • Here is your assignment: • Commit to 5 things • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5. spiscite@fccj.edu (or s_piscitelli@yahoo.com) (904) 633-8156

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