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2. Chapter 1 First Step

3. In This Chapter First steps to personal change
Discovery and intention journal entry system
Discovery wheel
Learning styles and modes
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4. In This Chapter Multiple intelligences
Characteristics of master students
The value of higher education
Power process: Ideas are tools
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5. Quotation for Discussion
You either change things or you don’t. Excuses rob you of power and induce apathy.
—Agnes Whistling Elk
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6. First Step Tell the truth about who you are and what you want
Be specific
Look beyond the classroom
Be courageous
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7. Increases your effectiveness Focuses your energy and efforts
Discovery
Intention
Journal Entry System
Increases your effectiveness
Focuses your energy and efforts
Identifies your course of action
Helps you stay on track
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8. Discovery Statements Declarations of what you want
Descriptions of your attitudes
Statements of your feelings
Transcripts of your thoughts
Chronicles of your actions
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9. Discovery Statement Guidelines
Discover what you want
Record the specifics
Notice your inner voices and pictures
Notice physical sensations
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10. Discovery Statement Guidelines
Use discomfort as a signal
Suspend self-judgment
Tell the truth
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11. Intention Statements Used to alter your course
State your commitment to do a specific task or take a certain action
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12. Intention Statement Guidelines
Make your intentions positive
Make intentions small and keepable
Use observable criteria for success
Set timelines
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13. Intention Statement Guidelines
Be careful of intentions that depend on others
Anticipate self-sabotage
Identify your rewards
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14. The Discovery Wheel: First Step Tool
What kind of student are you?
What kind of student do you want to be?
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15. Learning Styles Discovering how you learn Becoming a Master Student
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16. How Do You Learn? Ways of perceiving information
Concrete experience (CE)
Abstract conceptualization (AC)
Ways of processing information
Active experimentation (AE)
Reflective observation (RO)
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17. Modes of Learning Mode 1: Why?
Seeks a purpose for information: Why is it important to learn this?
Looks for a personal connection with the content
Considers situations from many points of view
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18. Modes of Learning Mode 2: What?
Wants to know critical facts
Seeks theories and models to explain what’s happening
Enjoys learning facts and arranging them in a logical, concise manner
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19. Modes of Learning Mode 3: How?
Wants to apply and test theories and models
Gets involved with new learning by personally testing it out
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20. Modes of Learning Mode 4: What If?
Wants to adapt new learning to different settings or issues
Seeks to go beyond the classroom and relate learning to other areas of life
Likes to find other uses for new learning
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21. Using Your Learning Profile
Tolerate discomfort
Match activities to your learning profile
Ask for what you want
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22. Using Your Learning Profile
Stay in charge of your learning
Associate with students who have different learning profiles
Use your textbook to experiment with different learning modes
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23. Claim Your Multiple Intelligences
Verbal/linguistic
Learns best by speaking, writing, reading, listening
Mathematical/logical
Good with numbers, logic, problem solving, patterns, categories
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24. Claim Your Multiple Intelligences
Visual/spatial
Thinks in images and pictures
Understands best by seeing the subject
Bodily/kinesthetic
Prefers physical activity
Would rather participate than watch
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25. Claim Your Multiple Intelligences
Musical/rhythmic
Enjoys musical expression
Sensitive to sounds
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26. Claim Your Multiple Intelligences
Intrapersonal
Exceptionally aware of own feelings and values
Generally reserved, self-motivated, intuitive
Interpersonal
Outgoing
Does well with cooperative learning
Good leaders
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27. Claim Your Multiple Intelligences
Naturalist
Loves outdoors
Excels in observing fine distinctions among similar items
Existentialist
Enjoys considering the “big picture”
Excels in philosophy
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28. What Are Some Characteristics of a Master Student?
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29. Characteristics of a Master Student
Organized
Competent
Joyful
Creative
Inquisitive
Attentive
Willing to change
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30. Characteristics of a Master Student
Willing to participate
Accepting
Willing to laugh
Self-aware
Responsible
Willing to risk
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31. The Value of Higher Education
Learn skills that apply across careers
Master the liberal arts
Gain a broad vision
Discover your values
Discover new interests
Hang out with the great
Join the conversation
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32. Power Process: Ideas Are Tools
Don’t believe ideas, try them
Ask yourself: What if that’s true?
Always look for ways to expand your toolbox
Select the best tool for the job
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33. Master Student Suny Urrutia Moore
“The master student strategies are not only applied to studying: they are all-encompassing tools that I use for success in life.”
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34. Review First steps to personal change
Discovery and intention journal entry system
Discovery wheel
Learning styles and modes
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35. Review Multiple intelligences Characteristics of master students
The value of higher education
Power process: Ideas are tools
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36. Chapter 1 First Step
Now’s the time to take your first step toward becoming a master student!
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