Mental energy that directs behavior
Motivation
Time you use to take care of yourself
Maintenance time
Mott community college's mascot
Bears
Brown bear
Ability to store the information you read in your long-term memory
Retention
The most common style of note taking
Outline
Factors that come from inside yourself; the values that give you a sense of self-worth
Internal motivators
Blocks of time that you commit specifically for a dedicated activity
Committed time
This is the man Mott was named after
Charles Stewart Mott
Ability to process and understand the meaning of what you read
Reading comprehension
One way to speed up note taking (give one)
use abbreviations
use symbols
do not write everything
skip lines and fill it in later
Mental or physical work you apply
toward a goal
Effort
Time that remains after maintenance time and committed time responsibilities have been met
Discretionary time
The year the first class of what would become Mott Community college was held
1923
Distractions that originate from your environment
External distraction
Per Kenneth Kiewra, lecture notes taken by first year students only contain this percentage of critical information.
11
Ability to recover from challenges and mistakes, learn from them, and move forward
Resilience
Looking ahead to see what will happen in the coming weeks and scheduling everything you need to do between now and then
Planning backwards
Clio
Fenton
Owosso
(Flint)
Reading not just for retention and comprehension, but also analyzing what is read
Active reading
Researchers found that if important information was contained in notes, it had this percentage chance of being remembered.
34
Practice of taking someone else’s work and passing it off work as your own
Plagiarism (or academic dishonesty)
Act of delaying acting on important priorities
procrastination
procrastinating
MCC’s upscale casual restaurant/teaching laboratory in downtown Flint
Applewood
Act of skimming the headings, notes, side text, or other high-level information
Previewing
Studies on memory have shown that, without review, this percentage of what a person has just learned is forgotten in the first twenty minutes
47