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Navigating Your Future: Interactive Journey to Personal and Academic Success
Bruce J. Colbert, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

ISBN-10: 0131960849
ISBN-13: 9780131960848

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 264 pp
Published: 01/02/2008

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For courses in Student Success in high school, career college, community college, or university settings.

 

This working textbook and integrated CD was developed to engage students in assessing their current academic and workplace skills and develop specific action plans to insure both academic and personal success. The first six chapters focus on the internal (or intrapersonal) success skills. Stress management lays the foundation and is followed by positive attitude, time management, and goal setting. Three chapters are devoted to academic skills to include learning styles, critical/creative thinking, improving memory, and test taking.  While the first six chapters focus on how to do well “within yourself”, the last four will deal with succeeding “within your program and beyond.” These skills focus on communication, group interaction, team building, job-seeking, and leadership development.

 

Highly interactive and fun CD to enhance understanding of the concepts in the text.  The text and CD focus on making positive behavioral changes rather than learning “tons” of theory.

  • It is important for the student to realize WHY each particular subject will benefit them and HOW they can implement positive change.  After reading the chapter and performing the interactive exercises and assessments, the student will then be directed to the corresponding CD chapter, which provides examples and exercises to help further reinforce the strategies discussed in the text.      

Personalized Assessment and Interactive Techniques.  The text and CD materials allow students to assess their strengths and areas that need improvement. It then helps them to develop personalized action plans (pgs. 12, 26, 73).

  • The CD interactively reinforces the material and gives the student the ability to track their progress. 

Effective Affective Behavioral Change Techniques.  Short, simple, and effective techniques are used so the student can actually make these behavioral changes.

  • Keeps concepts simple, yet focused. Students will see quick results, which motivate them to move forward.  Relevant learning and a simple, conversational writing style helps students to learn and personalize their strategies for skills development.  Examples relate WHY these skills are needed and HOW to develop them fully.

Logical Learning Organization.  The first six chapters focus on the student’s internal success skills to “get them grounded” in the basics before moving on to higher level skills or tasks.

  • How can a student do well if they are “stressed out” and this impacts everything else we ask them to do?  Stress management lays the foundation to harness their stress in a positive manner in order to enjoy a positive attitude and set personal goals so they are prepared to move into the interpersonal skill areas to maximize their external success skills.

Readability.  A conversational style, peppered with humor and “gee whiz” facts, make the material less theoretical and more personal.
                                                                                                                                                                       

Instructional Support  An Instructor Manual gives teaching methods for making this a 4, 8, 10, or 15 week course. In addition, each text exercise is explained along with additional test questions and suggested classroom activities. A modifiable Power Point presentation is also available.

 

Part One: Traveling Toward Personal Success

Chapter 1: Stress Management: The Skill that Affects All Others

Chapter 2: Positive Attitudes and Goals: Preparing for Success

Chapter 3: Managing Your Resources: Time and Money

Chapter 4: Active Study Strategies: Learning “How to Learn”

Chapter 5: Learning Styles, Memory and Test Taking: Getting the Grade

Chapter 6: Creative Thinking and Decision Making: Making Good Choices

 

Part Two:  A Roadmap for Professional Success

Chapter 7: Communication in Action: Presenting Yourself to Others

Chapter 8: Group Interaction and Team Building: Working Together Works

Chapter 9: Job Seeking and Leadership Development: Your Future Career Begins Now

Chapter 10: Enhancing Your Personal Health: Take Care of Yourself Along the Journey

Appendix

Glossary

Index

Bruce Colbert is the Director of the Allied Health Department of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He has authored five books, written several articles, and has given over two hundred invited lectures and workshops throughout the United States.  Many of his workshops provide teacher training on making learning engaging and relevant to today's students.  In addition, he conducts workshops on developing effective, critical, and creative thinking, stress and time management, communication, and team building.  He is an avid basketball player, even after three knee surgeries, which may indicate he has some learning diffculties.

How can students succeed if they’re stressed out?  In a back-to-basics style, Navigating Your Future puts stress management at the forefront, teaching students to harness their stress, create positive attitudes, and set personal goals.

 

Behavioral changes must be simple, interactively reinforced and show quick, positive results in order to take permanent hold.  This working textbook and integrated CD helps students to assess their current academic and workplace skills and develop specific action plans to insure both academic and personal success.

 

This text gets to the “heart of the matter” through personal assessment and the development of goal-oriented action plans to improve students' skills.

 

Features include:

  • Highly interactive and fun CD — presents concepts in simple, practical steps rather than only in theoretical approaches, using personalized assessments and engaging techniques
  • Behavioral Change Techniques — short, simple, and effective techniques help students make lasting behavioral changes
  • Logical Learning Organization -  focus on student’s internal success skills to “get them grounded” in the basics before moving on to higher-level skills or tasks

“WOW!!  This is just what new students need in a book!! I can’t state how impressed I am with this author and the text.  This approach will be very effective for new students.”

--Michelle Buchman, Everest College 

 

“The examples are exceptional and very in touch with the realities of the student. This is rare in most textbooks. In most books it seems as if the author might be trying very hard to understand what the student is really going through. However, this text has the feel and attitude that the author truly understands the challenges of the college student and has practical and realistic advice.  It does and excellent job at this.” 

--Theresa Tuttle, ECPI College of Technology

 

Additional Support — in and out of the classroom…

 

Visit the Student Success Supersite (www.prenhall.com/success), where students and faculty will find an array of resources.  In addition, instructors will be pleased to know that Navigating Your Future offers an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides.

 

View a Sample Chapter PDF: /samplechapter/0131960849.pdf

 

Bruce Colbert

Would your students be more successful if they possessed better stress management skills?

In this working textbook and integrated CD, stress management lays the foundation, with the first six chapters focusing on how to do well "within yourself", the last four will deal with succeed "within your personal program and beyond." These skills focus on communication, group interaction, team building, job-seeking, and leadership development.

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