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Keys to Success: Building Successful Intelligence for College, Career and Life, Brief Edition, 4/E
Carol Carter
Sarah Lyman Kravits
Joyce Bishop
Judy Block

ISBN-10: 0131715240
ISBN-13: 9780131715240

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 312 pp
Published: 04/12/2005

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For courses in Student Success, Freshman Seminar/Orientation—ideal for one-credit courses and trimester schools.

How can students get the most out of college and use what they learn to achieve their goals in an everchanging world? This new edition focuses on helping you to build your successful intelligence – a combination of analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills that will help you achieve your most important goals in College, Career, and Life.

The Keys message is simple – When students understand how material will help them get where they want to go, they will become more motivated and able to retain what they learn. Because this text shows readers how what helps them succeed in colllege will also serve them on the job and in life, Keys to Success, appeals to every age (traditional and older) and stage (full-time, part-time, working, parenting) of student.

How does this brief version compare to the full? Keys Brief vs. Keys Full 4/e: in Keys Brief, cut Quick Start and part enders, chapters #1 (Welcome to College) and #9 (Wellness, Career, and Money) are streamlined.

Students and Faculty alike are encouraged to visit the central website for all Keys franchise materials, www.carterkeys.com, where you can correspond with the author team, view their speaking calendar, benefit from current articles, and more!

Features

Since its’ publication, this Keys to Success has set the standard for helping students understand how to be successful in College, Career, and Life. This revision builds on this strength, while adding the new dimension of successful intelligence. Through building their ability to think analytically, creatively, and practically, students can understand their own power to choose and to act as they proceed through college and the world of work.

NEW–The text-wide theme of successful intelligence—Achieving College, Career, and Life goals and success through analytical, creative, and practical thinking.

~Based on Robert Sternberg’s concept of successful intelligence to maximize learning and life success. Introduced in Chapter 1 (pp. 7-11); expanded upon in Chapter 4 (pp. 89-112) to showthe connection to problem-solving and decision-making processes; and reinforced through all chapters, both in the text, and in exercises.List of “self-activators” (pp. 275-277) help students connect College to their Career and Life.

NEW–Get Analytical (pp. 31), Get Creative (pp. 37), and Get Practical (pp. 43) exercises—All geared toward skill building.

~Three exercises in each chapter all support skill building within the theme of successful intelligence.

NEW—Building Successful Intelligence: Putting it All Together (pp. 147-149) exercise—At the end of each chapter.

~Synthesizes the successful intelligence skills of analytical, creative, and practical thinking while applying them to chapter topics.

NEW–Student stories—Interspersed within the text.

~Heightens both relevance of the material and the student’s ability to connect to the content and how it may apply to their world.

~All new stories have been introduced to address the current challenges today’s student faces-e.g., balancing school with work, returning to school as an older student, dealing with financial needs, parenting, supporting various lifestyles and schedules, etc.

NEW—Learning Styles coverage—Thoroughly revised in Chapter 3 and integrated in each chapter.

~Shows a clearer delineation of the two learning styles assessments and makes them more useful: how you learn (Gardner's Multiple-Intelligences-based assessment pp. 62-66) and how you interact with others (Myers-Briggs-based assessment, pp. 67-70). Provides specific strategies to play to strengths, compensate for weaknesses, and build study skills.

NEW–Values, goal setting, time management, basic stress management, and test taking strategies—Earlier placement of the content.

~Values, goals, time, and stress now found in Chapter 2 (pp. 74-80); test taking strategies now in Chapter 7 and in Becoming a Better Test Taker sections. Facilitates early-in-the-semester coverage of these all-important topics that students are eager to master early on in school.

NEW—Multiple Intelligence Strategies—One each in Chapters 5-8. Each chapter’s grid focuses on a particular chapter topic.

~Provides students with a concrete way to utilize the skills they have just learned and builds upon the focus on Multiple Intelligences.

NEW–Cultural competence concept—The ability to actively adapt to and learn from different people round you.

~Introduces in Chapter 1, expanded upon in Chapter 8 on Diversity, and woven throughout each chapter. Shows students how diversity impacts and benefits them in school, work, and life; encourages them to understand the value of going beyond tolerance to take positive action.

Expanded coverage of common Freshman pitfalls—Academic integrity; choosing a major; stress management; credit card debt.

~Provides a more in-depth look at common issues, helping students avoid common pitfalls.

Chapter Opening Questions/Answers—Chapter openers highlight questions posed by actual students as they begin college. Each question is answered by another person who has had similar experiences. Contributors exhibit a wide variety of races, ages, and situations.

~Inspires students to read about others who have successfully dealt with similar challenges (pp. 88; pp. 218).

Personal Triumph stories—At the end of every third chapter. Presents a real-life story of a person who has overcome difficult circumstances in the pursuit of education and fulfillment. In the chapters where a Personal Triumph appears, the first end-of-the-chapter exercise links with the story.

~Inspires students and motivates them to step up their personal efforts to succeed.

Activity based exercises.

~Activity to introduce a word or phrase from a language other than English and suggests how you might apply the concept to your own life.

~Team Building: Collaborative Solutions exercises, Writing: Discovery Through Journaling exercises, and Career Portfolio: Plan for Success (pp. 183; pp. 283) exercises – this consistent series of three exercises appears at the end of each chapter.

Available in Keys Custom Database Program

~Allows you to choose chapters and create your own book. Include up to 20% of your own material and decide on chapter order.

~For more information, visit www.pearsoncustom.com/database/keys.html

Seminars and Services for Faculty

Course Consulting Service—Provides professors with author written course advice based on their classroom teaching and learning experiences. Authors are also available to answer questions via their email addresses: Dr. Joyce Bishop - jbishop@gwc.cccd.edu or Carol J. Carter - caroljcarter@lifebound.com, or toll free at 877-737-8510. Please give your local representative your syllabus and class objectives and we will have the advice plan back to you quickly!

~Helps with text transition and new ideas.

Faculty Training—For adoptions of 1,000 annual copies or more! Create a customized presentation, select from: Multiple Intelligences, Motivating at Risk Students, Climbing out of the box, Setting Goals and Expectations, Teaching Responsibility and Ethics, Technology in the Classroom, Collaborative Learning and Critical Thinking.

~Infuses classroom experience with new ways to get the message across to students.

Seminars for Students—In-school presentations for students are offered through LifeBound Seminars. Please visit the website at LifeBound.com.

~Provides hands-on help for students.

New To This Edition

The text-wide theme of successful intelligence—Achieving College, Career, and Life goals and success through analytical, creative, and practical thinking.

~Based on Robert Sternberg’s concept of successful intelligence to maximize learning and life success. Introduced in Chapter 1 (pp. 7-11); expanded upon in Chapter 4 (pp. 89-112) to showthe connection to problem-solving and decision-making processes; and reinforced through all chapters, both in the text, and in exercises.List of “self-activators” (pp. 275-277) help students connect College to their Career and Life.

Get Analytical (pp. 31), Get Creative (pp. 37), and Get Practical (pp. 43) exercises—All geared toward skill building.

~Three exercises in each chapter all support skill building within the theme of successful intelligence.

Building Successful Intelligence: Putting it All Together (pp. 147-149) exercise—At the end of each chapter.

~Synthesizes the successful intelligence skills of analytical, creative, and practical thinking while applying them to chapter topics.

Student stories—Interspersed within the text.

~Heightens both relevance of the material and the student’s ability to connect to the content and how it may apply to their world.

~All new stories have been introduced to address the current challenges today’s student faces-e.g., balancing school with work, returning to school as an older student, dealing with financial needs, parenting, supporting various lifestyles and schedules, etc.

Learning Styles coverage—Thoroughly revised in Chapter 3 and integrated in each chapter.

~Shows a clearer delineation of the two learning styles assessments and makes them more useful: how you learn (Gardner's Multiple-Intelligences-based assessment pp. 62-66) and how you interact with others (Myers-Briggs-based assessment, pp. 67-70). Provides specific strategies to play to strengths, compensate for weaknesses, and build study skills.

Values, goal setting, time management, basic stress management, and test taking strategies—Earlier placement of the content.

~Values, goals, time, and stress now found in Chapter 2 (pp. 74-80); test taking strategies now in Chapter 7 and in Becoming a Better Test Taker sections. Facilitates early-in-the-semester coverage of these all-important topics that students are eager to master early on in school.

Multiple Intelligence Strategies—One each in Chapters 5-8. Each chapter’s grid focuses on a particular chapter topic.

~Provides students with a concrete way to utilize the skills they have just learned and builds upon the focus on Multiple Intelligences.

Cultural competence concept—The ability to actively adapt to and learn from different people round you.

~Introduces in Chapter 1, expanded upon in Chapter 8 on Diversity, and woven throughout each chapter. Shows students how diversity impacts and benefits them in school, work, and life; encourages them to understand the value of going beyond tolerance to take positive action.

Seminars and Services for Faculty

NEW Online Faculty Training: Faculty training anytime you want it. Ask questions. Share ideas. Troubleshoot. Join the Keys author online faculty training sessions, available to all adopters through Course Compass, and you’ll learn what other faculty using Keys are doing; be able to share exercises, syllabi, and teaching strategies; and view online videos of Joyce explaining specific learning activities. This new “Key” to your teaching success is free—no matter what your course size or location--and accessible online at www.keysfacultyonline.com.
Course Consulting Service–Provides professors with author written course advice based on their classroom teaching and learning experiences. Authors are also available to answer questions via their email addresses: Dr. Joyce Bishop - jbishop@gwc.cccd.edu or Carol J. Carter - caroljcarter@lifebound.com, or toll free at 877-737-8510. Please give your local representative your syllabus and class objectives and we will have the advice plan back to you quickly! Helps with text transition and new ways to get the message across to students.
Faculty Training–For adoptions of 1,000 annual copies or more! Create a customized presentation, select from: Multiple Intelligences, Motivating at Risk Students, Climbing out of the box, Setting Goals and Expectations, Teaching Responsibility and Ethics, Technology in the Classroom, Collaborative Learning and Critical Thinking. Infuses classroom experience with new ideas.

Seminars for Students–In-school presentations for students are offered through LifeBound Seminars. Please visit the website at www.LifeBound.com. Provides hands-on help for students.

Table of Contents

I. DEFINING YOURSELF AND YOUR GOALS.

1. Welcome to College: Opening Doors to Success.

2. Values, Goals, Time, and Stress: Managing Yourself.

3. Learning Styles, Majors, and Careers: Knowing Your Talents and Finding Your Direction.

II. DEVELOPING YOUR LEARNING SKILLS.

4. Critical, Creative, and Practical Thinking: Solving Problems and Making Decisions.

5. Reading and Studying: Focusing on Content.

6. Listening, Note Taking, and Memory: Taking in, Recording, and Remembering Information.

7. Test Taking: Showing What You Know.

III. CREATING SUCCESS.

8. Relating to Others: Communicating in a Diverse World.

9. Wellness, Career, and Money: Building Skills for Life Success.

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Keys to Success Brief unlocks every student's potential to succeed in college, career, and life by challenging them to realize, "It’s not just what you know…it’s what you know how to do."  Students will develop their goal-setting abilities by personalizing “best practice” tools and strategies for all topics covered. Keys’ focuses on building analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills. This “thinking skills” framework challenges students of all levels to question, evaluate, innovate, relate, and follow through - which is critical in class AND highly valued in a competitive 21^st century workplace where one must maximize strengths and bolster weaknesses. When students build the skills that will help them get where they want to go in college and beyond, they will be more motivated to retain and APPLY what they learn. Revision highlights include Social Media integration, 21st Century Skills coverage, stronger memory and learning coverage, updated financial literacy material, and much more.

Students and Faculty are encouraged to visit the website for all Keys franchise materials, www.carterkeys.com, to correspond with the author team, view their speaking calendar, benefit from current articles, and more!

TECHNOLOGY OFFERING: MyStudentSuccessLab is available with this book upon request. It is an online solution designed to help students ‘Start strong, Finish stronger’ by building skills for ongoing personal and professional development. Go to http://mystudentsuccesslab.com/mssl3 for a Point and Click DEMO of the Time Management module.
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Carol Carter is founder of Lifebound, a career coaching company that offers individual coaching sessions and seminars for high school students, college students, and career seekers. She has written and co-authored multiple texts. She has taught welfare-to-work classes, team taught in the La Familia Scholars program, and conducted numerous workshops for students and faculty around the country. Carol is a national college and career expert and is interviewed regularly in print, on the radio, and for television news programs.

Joyce Bishop holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has taught for more than 20 years, receiving a number of honors, including Teacher of the Year for 1995 and 2000. For five years she has been voted "favorite teacher" by the student body and Honor Society at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, where she has taught since 1987 and is a tenured professor. She worked with a federal grant to establish Learning Communities and Workplace Learning in her district, and has developed workshops and trained faculty in cooperative learning, active learning, multiple intelligences, workplace relevancy, learning styles, authentic assessment, team building, and the development of learning communities. Joyce currently teaches on-line and multimedia classes, and trains other faculty within her 21 college district. In addition, she has co-authored multiple texts and is the lead academic for the Lifelong Learning Telecourse.

Sarah Lyman Kravits comes from a family of educators and has long cultivated an interest in educational development. She has co-authored several books and has served a Program Director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to further the career and personal development of high school students. In this role, she helped facilitate both curricular and organizational elements of the program, working closely with instructors as well as members of the business community. Sarah has also given workshops on critical thinking.

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