Leslie Young

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Study Skills, Stress Management, and Community

Our classes are offerd in 4-week increments,and students take one class at a time. Because our students are mostly nontraditional students, I believe they need a refresher on these topics, and that this refresher needs to be reinforced in classes other than the college success class. It seems to make the most amount of sense to me to reinforce these skills in their first three or four classes to prepare the students for success in their second quarter and beyond.

Leslie Young

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Study Skills, Stress Management, and Community

I have recently taken over the role of General Education Department Chair at my campus and need to improve the department's retention, absence rates, and failure rates. I would like to include the following topics in all first-quarter classes: - Study Skills - Stress Management - Seeing the class and school as a community It appears that these are three major issues that relate to retention. My question is: How can these skills incorporated into classes that are not college success courses, such as math or introductory computer classes?

Leslie Young

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Teaching Students How to Cope with Stress

Hi Loren, We are using the Study Skills Inventory by the University of Central Florida: http://www.sarc.sdes.ucf.edu/?id=form_studyskills_inventory. I am not familiar with LASSI or Campus Toolkit. I will look into those. Thanks for the suggestions! Leslie

Leslie Young

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Teaching Students How to Cope with Stress

I am an English instructor and am in the process of rewriting my lesson plans for my Fundamentals of English class, which is a developmental writing course that most of our students take early on. I already began incorporating study skills in this class by having the students take an online assessment that shows them in which areas their study skills need improvement. Then we read some material about improving. Finally, each student writes about how he/she can improve. Are there any resources for teaching students how to cope with stress? I'd like to add this in to my course.… >>>