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Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Getting Started. What are the behaviors and attitudes of an “A” student?. List three important behaviors that an “A” student would have. Get in a group of three students and compare lists Report. What Do I Want from College?.

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Chapter 1: Getting Started

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  1. Chapter 1: Getting Started

  2. What are the behaviors and attitudes of an “A” student? • List three important behaviors that an “A” student would have. • Get in a group of three students and compare lists • Report

  3. What Do I Want from College?

  4. Exercise:What Do I Want fromCollege? Share your most important reason with the class.

  5. Value of a College Education

  6. Lifetime Income • HIGH SCHOOL $938,850 • SOME COLLEGE $990,270 • ASSOCIATE $1,192,380 • BACHELORS $1,715,430 • MASTERS $2,105,580 • PROFESSIONAL $3,629,340 (Updated 2011)

  7. Yearly Income • HIGH SCHOOL $31,286 • SOME COLLEGE $33,009 • ASSOCIATE $39,746 • BACHELORS $57,181 • MASTERS $70,186 • PROFESSIONAL $120,978

  8. What is the Value of a College Degree? $1,715,430 College Graduate $ 938,580 High School Graduate $776,850 Value of College Degree

  9. College graduates makealmosttwice as much as high school graduates over a lifetime.

  10. How Much is Each College Class Worth?

  11. $19,421 per 3 unit class($776,850 divided by 40 classes for a BA or BS)

  12. What is one hour of a college class worth?

  13. $405 per hour in class ($1 divided by 48 hours in class)

  14. Would you attend class today and be prepared if I paid you $405? if I were to pay you $394?

  15. Of course, these payments are over a working lifetime of 30 years.

  16. Increased Need for Education

  17. How do you motivate yourself? • What if you don’t feel like coming to class or doing your homework. How do you motivate yourself to do it anyway? • Think • Discuss with the person next to you • Share ideas

  18. Ways to Improve Your Concentration

  19. There are many ways to be motivated. Let’s see if any are useful to you. • Think positively about the future • Look for something interesting • Improve your concentration • Manage your external environment • Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation • Locus of control • Achievement motivation • Use a reward

  20. Optimism Vs. PessimismHow does it apply to college?

  21. Find something interesting in your studies. Exercise: Textbook Skimming

  22. Concentration and motivation are connected • If you can focus on what you are doing, you are motivated to continue.

  23. Manage Your External Environment

  24. Minimize Distractions • If you study in the kitchen, you will be distracted by food • If you study in front of the TV, you will be tempted to watch it • If you study in bed, it will be difficult to say awake

  25. Be Here Now • Choose where you will place your attention • When your mind wanders, gently bring it back. Forcing attention does not work.

  26. For example, do not think about pink elephants!

  27. How many of you thought about pink elephants?

  28. When your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the here and now.

  29. Can you be here now for two minutes?

  30. Focus on this number for 2 minutes: 1

  31. Where did your mind goduring these two minutes?

  32. The Spider Technique • Learn to ignore distractions and keep your attention focused

  33. Set up a Worry Time • Set a time each day • When worries distract you, remind yourself of the time set aside to worry • Be here now • Keep your worry appointment • Find solutions

  34. Increase Your Activity • Take a break • Stretch • Move • Read and listen actively

  35. The Checkmark Technique • When you find yourself distracted, place a checkmark on a piece of paper and refocus your attention • With practice you will have fewer checkmarks and distractions

  36. Change Topics • You may need to study for a short period of time and change subjects

  37. Intrinsic Vs. Extrinsic Motivation

  38. Intrinsic Motivation • Comes from within yourself

  39. Extrinsic Motivation • Comes from outside yourself

  40. Which is the more powerful motivator? • Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation?

  41. Intrinsic motivation is the most powerful

  42. Locus of Control • Where you place responsibility for control over your life • Internal • External

  43. Internal Locus of Control • Believe they are in control of their lives • Self-motivated • Learn from mistakes • Think positively

  44. External Locus of Control • Others control their lives • Life is a result of luck or fate • Rely on external motivation • Look for someone to blame • Think negatively • Victims of circumstance

  45. What is more likely to lead to achievement in college? • Internal Locus of Control? • External Locus of Control?

  46. Internal locus of control is most likely to lead to success in college.

  47. Exercise: Locus of Control CSI Activity

  48. More Types of Motivation

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