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2: Effective Time Management, Learning Styles, and Study Strategies

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    • 2.1: Prelude to Managing Your Time and Priorities
      Student survey, student profile, chapter overview and AC Module 2 learning objectives.
    • 2.2: The Benefits of Time Management
      Poor time management can be negatively impact your college experience, proving costly to your educational plan and financial health. If nothing else, it can add unnecessary stress. AC Resources!
    • 2.3: Time Management in College
      In college, students are given more freedom as to how to manage their time and therefore must take more personal responsibility over decisions that were previously made by their high school instructors.
    • 2.4: Procrastination- The Enemy Within
      The reasons behind procrastination include lack of energy, lack of focus, and fear of failure. The effects of procrastination include loss of time, loss of goals, loss of self-esteem, and stress. Strategies for dealing with procrastination include getting organized, putting aside distractions, rewarding yourself, being accountable, and taking it step by step. AC Resources! and places to work and / or study on campus.
    • 2.5: How to Manage Time
      Using time on task estimates and online calendars. What is your time management style? How will you manage your own time without many strict deadlines? Helpful apps and tools for time management success.
    • 2.6: Prioritization- Self-Management of What You Do and When You Do It
      The Eisenhower Decision Matrix and basing decisions or urgency and importance. Who is driving your tasks? Making tough decisions. Knowing what you need to do, taking into consideration that some tasks depend on the completion of others. Planning based on needed skills and resources for task completion. Setting deadlines and being flexible.
    • 2.7: Goal Setting and Motivation
      Setting motivational goals. SMART goals. What is an action plan? Sticking to the plan.
    • 2.8: Enhanced Strategies for Time and Task Management
      Daily Top Three, Pomodoro Technique, and Eat the Frog. Breaking down the steps and spreading them out over shorter work periods. Analyzing your schedule and creating time to work.
    • 2.9: Summary
    • 2.10: Career Connection
    • 2.11: Rethinking
    • 2.12: Where do you go from here?
    • 2.13: Prelude to Knowing Yourself as a Learner
      Student Survey and About This Chapter.
    • 2.14: The Power to Learn
      What is the nature of learning? All learning is not the same.
    • 2.15: The Motivated Learner
      The Motivated Learner: Resilience and Grit, Applying Grit, and Keeping Grit in Mind: Grit to GRIT. How do you get grit? Get a grit partner. Uses and gratification theory and learning. Combating negative bias.
    • 2.16: It's All in the Mindset
      Performance vs. Learning Goals. Student Survey. Fixed vs. Growth Mindset. The Growth Mindset and Lessons About Failing. Improving your ability to learn.
    • 2.17: Learning Styles
      Several decades ago, a new way of thinking about learning became very prominent in education. It was based on the concept that each person has a preferred way to learn. It was thought that these preferences had to do with each person’s natural tendencies toward one of their senses. The idea was that learning might be easier if a student sought out content that was specifically oriented to their favored sense. The truth about learning styles, knowing and taking advantage of learning styles in a w
    • 2.18: Personality Types and Learning
      Much like learning styles, there have been a number of theories surrounding the idea that different personality types may prefer different kinds of learning. Myers-Briggs: Identifying personality styles and traits. The impact of personality styles on learning. How to use personality type learning styles. The impact of work you enjoy.
    • 2.19: Applying What You Know about Learning
      Making decisions about your own learning. Make mistakes safe. Make everything problem centered. Make it occupation related. Managing your time. Instructors as learning partners.
    • 2.20: The Hidden Curriculum
      Emphasis in college courses is usually put on the content. However, there are many things that are not explicitly stated in a course that a student needs to know and practice in order to succeed.
    • 2.21: Summary
    • 2.22: Career Connection
      TEDx talk that questions the validity of learning styles.
    • 2.23: Rethinking
    • 2.24: Where do you go from here?
    • 2.25: Studying
      Four myths about studying. Study strategies: mnemonics, concept association, idea clusters, spacing, interleaving, and practice testing. Recognizing strengths and weaknesses of preferred approaches and practicing active continuous improvement.

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