There are lots of components to academic success! The resources in these tabs focus on different skills that you might find helpful. Below are a selection of books and ebooks available in the Parrott Centre that explore general tips for academic success.
Becoming a master student by 
College Study by
College Study uses an active learning approach that focuses on the reader choosing, applying, and assessing practical strategies, with the goal of creating an effective, efficient, and individualized system of study. KEY TOPICS: Readers are exposed to how to make informed choices about learning content that is often new, complex, and changing rapidly, especially given the increasing link between technology and learning. Included is the inter-relationship of students' learning behaviors and attitudes, with an emphasis on applying multi-modal strategies into daily course work. The text covers the major learning skills topics: academic planning and goal-setting, time management and procrastination, productivity, active listening and note taking, reading and studying, preparing for and taking tests, enhancing learning and memory, reducing worry/anxiety, and online and web-based strategies. This text is written in a streamlined format; with an informal, personal writing style; and engaging activities that maintain the reader's attention and appeal to today's college students. MARKET: For readers' use in a variety of contexts: A one- or two-credit study skills or learning strategies course, a skills course linked or paired with content-area course work, introductory-level content course using a supplemental learning strategies text, a first-year orientation program or seminar, a series of workshops for first-year or students on academic probation, or a tutor or peer educator training course requiring a learning strategies text.
Your Complete Guide to College Success by
College and real life aren't the distinct worlds they're often made out to be. With the proper skills, knowledge, and attitudes you can tackle college work and cope effectively with issues you'll encounter for the rest of your adult life, such as: Learning in the most effective and efficient way Figuring out the social scene Defining your goals and accomplishing them Creatively adapting to the changing world Your Complete Guide to College Success is an up-to-date, evidence-based book that provides a roadmap for how to be successful in college -- and afterwards. It covers a comprehensive set of academic and personal topics, and distils research results and advice into a student-friendly, readable package. In this book, you'll get insider advice on how to get free tutoring on any topic, how to look for help with your courses before it's too late -- and what to do if it is. You'll also get concrete recommendations for everything from selecting a major and an appropriate career to dealing with roommate problems and how to cope when personal matters go wrong. This book incorporates interviews with students and key staff members at numerous colleges and universities, as well as the author's 25 years' experience as an academic leader. It will show you the best, most practical ways to achieve college success while also giving you more time for fun.
Loyalist College offers a number of resources through the Student Services Department to help you succeed, including:
The Student Services staff are available to assist you with a wide range of needs, so click on the links above for more information, call (613) 969-1913, Ext. 2519, or email studentsuccess@loyalistcollege.com
Trying to keep up with assignments and projects while balancing expectations at school, at work, and at home can be stressful! Below are some resources from the Parrott Centre, and links to information that you can use to help you to manage your stress.
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Challenging Stress, Burnout and Rust-Out by
A balanced lifestyle enhances health, happiness and wellbeing. With practical techniques and strategies, this book explores how this balance can be found and how stress and anxiety, which are linked to being overworked and over busy, may be alleviated. It begins by examining the state of work-life imbalance in our everyday lives and discussing real life examples from a group of professionals working in health and social care. Their stories and experiences illustrate the problems caused by our modern, work-driven society and resonate with how many of us are living today. The author then provides practical tools and techniques to address this overwork culture and achieve a more balanced lifestyle. These simple, yet effective, strategies can be implemented quickly in everyday life. This practical resource addresses a problem affecting many professionals worldwide. It will be of particular interest to helping professionals, including occupational therapists, counsellors and therapists, and will allow them to apply the theories of work-life balance to real life in straightforward and tangible ways. The stories and techniques will also resonate with anyone interested in transforming their overworked or overburdened lives.
Mindfulness for the Next Generation by
College students and other young adults today are experiencing high levels of stress as they pursue personal, educational, and career goals. In recent years, there has been increased awareness of the seriousness of these struggles, which may increase the risk of psychological distress and mental illness among this age group now commonly referred to as 'emerging adults.' Scientific research has shown that practicing mindfulness can help manage stress and enhance quality of life, but traditional methods of teaching mindfulness and meditation are not always effective for this developmental stage. Mindfulness for the Next Generation is an easy-to-use guide that details a four-session mindfulness-based program, called 'Koru,' aimed at helping young adults cope with anxiety, navigate the tasks they face, and achieve meaningful personal growth. Authors Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan, Duke University psychiatrists and the developers of the Koru program, discuss the unique challenges this group faces, identify effective teaching techniques for working with them, and review the research supporting mindfulness for stress reduction in a scientifically rigorous yet reader-friendly way. The book explains the specific model created by the authors and describes each session in a 'mini-manual' format. Mindfulness for the Next Generation is written for therapists, teachers, health professionals, and student service providers who work with college students and other emerging adults.
Stress Management by
Stress is an unavoidable part of our everyday lives--and some of it can be good. But a lot of stress is unhealthy, and most of us don't know how to handle it. Ignoring or mishandling unhealthy stress has all sorts of negative consequences. That's why Stress Management: A Wellness Approach is such a valuable resource. This student-friendly guide identifies stressors in six dimensions of life--physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, and environmental--and presents tested tools that students can use in managing that stress in healthy ways. This text offers these features: * Questions that promote critical and reflective thinking in journal entries and discussions as students look to creatively solve problems * Experiential activities that encourage students to practice stress management techniques Author Nanette Tummers presents stress management from a holistic viewpoint. She considers not only the symptoms of stress but also the challenges students face in their physical, emotional, intellectual, social, financial, cultural, and spiritual circumstances. Stress Management draws heavily from leading research and best practices from experts in the field of positive psychology, such as Seligman (flourishing), Benson (relaxation response), and Kabat-Zinn (mindfulness). The material cultivates students' strengths rather than pointing out their weaknesses. The book includes sidebars describing resources (books and websites) that instructors and students alike can use in further exploration of issues in stress management. Stress Management helps college students manage stress in today's fast-paced, ever-changing climate: social, culture, politics, economics, technology, and media. It explores key issues of stress and stress management and offers evidence-based research and practical tools that students can use in coping with changes and stress in healthy and positive ways now and throughout their lives.
Studying is a learned skill, and it takes time and practice to get good at it! Below are some study tips from the Parrott Centre, and links to resources that can help you to develop your study skills.
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The Guide to Learning and Study Skills - For Higher Education and at Work by
Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in higher education study, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level, in university, college or in the workplace. Skills are needed in reflection, analysis, communication and recording information to produce good work, to engage effectively in a group, to carry out a project or perform well in exams; personal skills are needed to handle time and pressure and to relate to others on a course or in the workplace. This new guide builds on the hugely successful materials the authors have developed over the last 15 years. Along with highly practical guidance on traditional learning skills, The Guide to Learning and Study Skills provides direction for students on learning in a blended environment; the increased use of personal and professional development planning, continuing professional development and work-based learning.
How to Study by
How to Study, has gained immense popularity among students of all ages. Now updated and expanded for the information age, this "A-Plus" read includes areas such as how to create a work environment, excel in class, use the library, do online research, and much more.
Staying organized and managing your time well is an important part of academic success, and both are learned skills that take practice! Below are some resources from the Parrott Centre, and links to resources that will help you to develop great organizational and time management skills.
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Quality Time by
Managers who focus on time usually concentrate on the wrong things. Quality Time presents a new approach to achieving productivity through time management. Time itself is not what matters but rather how that time is used to achieve individual and organizational goals. Managers who get upset over employees coming to work late or socializing on the job often care more about them "putting in time" than putting their time to good use. Quality Time is for managers and others who care about everyone putting their time to good use to contribute to the value of the organization. Based on unique concepts, Quality Time offers both general and specific information and advice from an individual and a team or group point of view. It is designed so that the manager is involved first and then group or team members are engaged. Through reciprocal communication, all parties can arrive at better uses of time. While focused on managers, anyone can achieve productivity from the use of the unique framework and assessments. Quality Time is different from other time-management books. Most are focused solely on the individual. Quality Time is intended to serve individuals but also workgroups or teams. Quality Time is readable. It uses straightforward language to involve the reader. It makes learning easier and enjoyable by making the material realistic and interesting. The material is up-to-date and accurate as well.
Studying Tips, Tricks and Hacks by
Get better grades using proven tactics of the most successful students. Learning so many subjects can be so much easier when taught how to study. This quick and easy 6 page laminated reference to those tactics can help reinforce with every review. Follow the guide and practice, practice, practice the tactics until they are habit. Harness the power of routine, build self-discipline, develop time management skills and success will follow. Practice will be easier with this guide as a road map. Once these skills are habit, you will know the road to success like the back of your hand. 6-page laminated guide includes: Start Positive, End Positive Study Habits in Class Reading at Home Studying for Specific Subjects Daily & Weekly Reviews Discipline & Organization in Planning Motivation Power Breaks Study Aids Practice Makes Perfect Collaborate: Bring Together Great Minds Committing Knowledge to Long Term Memory Study Environment Final Review Why You Should Never Cram Before the Big Day Test Day: Time to Shine Test-Taking Tips Suggested uses: Parents - Get this guide early and know how to help your child study from a young age to make your, and their, lives easier and ultimately more successful Students - Keep this guide for reviewing regularly until these tactics become habit, then still review the guide for future support Educators & Administrators - Consider buying in bulk as a handout to students to promote healthy study habits, boost test scores, grades and student success rates
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