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Fostering Habits of Mind in Today's Students
Students need more than just academic skills for success in college
and career, and the lack of an explicit instructional focus on the
“soft skills” critical to postsecondary success poses a challenge for
many students who enter college, especially the underprepared.
Based upon a multi-campus, cross-disciplinary collaboration, this
book presents the resulting set of habits-of-mind-based strategies
that demonstrably help not only low-income, ESL, and first-generation
college students overcome obstacles on the path to degree completion;
these strategies equally benefit all students. They promote life-long,
integrative learning and foster intellectual qualities such as
curiosity, openness, flexibility, engagement, and persistence that are
the key to developing internalized and transferrable competencies that
are seldom given direct attention in college classrooms.
This contributed volume, written with full-time and adjunct
faculty in mind, provides the rationale for this pedagogical approach
and presents the sequential instructional cycle that begins by
identifying students’ assets and progressively focusing on specific
habits to develop their capacity to transfer their learning to new
tasks and situations.
Faculty from both two-year and four-year colleges provide
examples of how they implement these practices in English, math, and
General Education courses, and demonstrate the applicability of these
practices across course types and disciplines.
Publisher's description.
Call number: FTLC LB 2331.2 .F67 2015
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