Managing Yourself as a Successful Student

Do you wonder what the best approach to your learning is?

Do you want to learn how to become more organized with your studies and your time?

A+ Student Strategies for Reading & Thinking Critically
Do you want to know what it takes to get better grades?

Do you want to be able to read more effectively?

Do you want to better analyze information?

This workshop will help you to read more efficiently and show you effective strategies to get the most out of what you read. You will also gain skills that will help you to think more effectively about the information you have read and better expand on these ideas through your writing.

Links to other online resources related to this topic:

Reading Efficiency

• Practice Your Skill -  http://www.readingsoft.com
• Principles of Reading Efficiency - http://www.mindtools.com/speedrd

Critical Reading

• http://www.criticalreading.com/ways_to_read.htm 

Reading Texts

• Pre-Reading Strategies www.studygs.net/preread.htm
• Critical Reading www.esc.edu/ESConline/Across_ESC/WritingResourceCenter.nsf/wholeshortlinks2/Academic+Reading
• Studying Efficiently gwired.gwu.edu/counsel/asc/index.gw/Site_ID/46/Page_ID/14536/
• Textbook Reading Strategies academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/208.HTM
• How to Study – Reading Resources www.howtostudy.org/resources_skill.php?id=10
• Dartmouth Academic Skills Center www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/reading.html
• St. Louis University Reading Resource Center   
• www.slu.edu/x14076.xml

• Rochester Institute of Technology – Academic Support Center – On Textbook Reading

•  http://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/asc/college_programs/lng_pwr/index.php?l1=3&l2=7&location=37 

• James Cook University –Reading Efficiency
•  http://www.jcu.edu.au/office/tld/learningskills/effreading/

Mindmapping

• Theory Behind Concept Mapping  
• cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm
• Mindmapping Overview
•  members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Creative/Mindmap/
• Reading Comprehension & Mindmapping Video  
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnbKEHOQIY&feature=related
• University of Victoria  
• www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/reading-skills/
• James Cook University –Mindmapping   
• http://www.jcu.edu.au/office/tld/learningskills/mindmap/index.html

Learning Style & Effective Study Strategies
Do you know how you learn best? Are you aware of strategies for studying that match your learning style?

Your learning style is the way you prefer to learn. It doesn't have anything to do with how intelligent you are or what skills you have learned. It has to do with how your brain works most efficiently to learn new information. This workshop will focus on helping you identify your own learning style & show you how to develop learning strategies that work for you so you can create a customized approach to achieving academic success. 

Managing Yourself &

Your Time More Effectively
Do you find it difficult to juggle multiple priorities? Do you wish you had better organization & time management skills?

This workshop will allow you to confront all of the directions that life pulls you: work, family, & of course – school! We’ll talk about how to
prioritize & organize your life so that you can have time to enjoy yourself too!

Stress Management
Did you know that stress

can impact you physically?

Do you need tips for de-stressing?

This workshop will introduce you to the causes of stress; the physical & mental effects of stress and ways to de-stress both quickly & in the long run.