POWER LEARNING

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POWER LEARNING

• COL 103
• Chapter 1
• Professor Jackie Kroening
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• 864-646-1425 (PSY office)
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Group Exercise

1. Complete Try It! on page 4 of text
2. Get into groups of three or four
3. Share with group your answers and why
4. Group check out (select a person in your group to
   summarize groups answers.
5. You have 15 min. for this exercise

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Why Go to College

• Think and Communicate Better
• Advance knowledge and technology in changing
  world
• Adapt to new situations
• Live in world of diversity
• Civic engagement
• Learning is a lifelong habit
• Contribute to the community and world

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P.O.W.E.RThe Five Key Steps to Achieving Success

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• Planning
• What is your destination?
• How do I get there?
• When do I reach my destination?
• Contingency plan (trouble along the way)

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Planning

• Set both long-term and short-term goals
• Long-term Major accomplishments
• Short-term Limited steps to the long-term goal

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Setting Goals

• Recognize and know who yourself (Ch. 3)
• Make goals realistic and attainable
• State goals in terms of behavior that can be
  measured
• Goals involve behavior you have control over
• Take ownership of goals
• Identify how short-term fit with long-term

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rganize

• Learning is to organize the tools you need to
  accomplish your goals
• Two types
• Physical aspects pens, paper, books,
  calculator, computer, software, printer
• Intellectual tools basic skills, theories,
  models, pre-requirement

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• Preparation and organization will make work seem
  easier
• Getting down to work has many factors
• Out of our control
• The car breaks down
• Power outages
• Family emergency and/or commitments
• In our control
• Time management
• Motivation to work

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Motivation

• The inner power and psychological energy that
  directs and fuels behavior
• All of us are motivated. The key to success in
  and out of the classroom is to tap into, harness,
  and direct that motivation
• Effort is the cause of success

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Motivation

• Take responsibility for your failures and
  successes
• Think Positive
• Accept that you cant control everything

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• Take time to congratulate yourself
• Compare what you have accomplished with your plan
  and goals
• Evaluate your accomplishments by being a third
  observer (remove self bias)
• Evaluate your work as your instructor sees it.
• Be fair to yourself
• Based on your evaluation, revise your work

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R
ethink

• Critical Thinking
• Reanalyzing
• Questioning
• Challenging underlying assumptions

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Completing the Process

• Know that theres always another day
• Realize that deciding when to stop work is often
  as hard as getting started