Taking the First Step
The Culture of Higher Education
Becoming an Active Learner
On Course Principles at Work
Adopting a Creator Mindset
100
The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of the choices we make on a daily basis...
What is Success?
100
The collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one human group from another...
What is Culture?
100
Brain neurons that fire together when your brain is actively learning...
What is Neural Network?
100
Knowledge of skills needed to perform a particular job...
What is Hard Skills?
100
A mindset that keeps people from seeing and acting on choices that could help them achieve the life they want.
What is Victim Mindset?
200
This is a written record of your thoughts and feelings, hopes and dreams
What is a Journal?
200
This is a type of Culture that includes food, fashion, language, gestures, art, games, music...
What is Surface Culture?
200
To excel as a learner, you need to create as many __________ in your brain as possible...
What is Neural Connections?
200
These skills are essential to job success.
What is Soft Skills?
200
A mindset that causes people to see multiple options, choose wisely among them, and take effective actions to achieve the life they want.
What is a Creator Mindset
300
A tool used to identify behaviors and beliefs...creating a self-portrait...the first step on an exciting journey to a richer, more personally fulfilling life
What is a Self-Assessment?
300
This is a type of Culture that includes Norms, beliefs, rules, attitudes, opinions, taboos, expectations, world view...
What is Deep Culture?
300
Participating actively in the learning process creates ____________
What is Strong Neural Networks?
300
This report presents a set of foundation skills and workplace competencies that employers consider essential for work-world success....
What is the SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills?
300
In the 1950's, a psychologist Julian Rotter set out to study people's beliefs about who or what was responsible for the outcomes and experiences of their lives...
What is Locus of Control?
400
These are eight (8) characteristics of successful and struggling students
What is Choices of Successful Students
400
This is the upset and stress we experience when confronted with behaviors and beliefs that differ significantly for our own...
What is Culture Shock?
400
Good learners, consciously or unconsciously implement three principles for reacting deep and lasting learning...
What is Prior Learning, Quality of Processing, and Quantity of Processing?
400
People who have been in the work world for awhile will tell you....
What is Hard Skills are essential to get a job but they are often insufficient to keep it or advance?
400
This is the key ingredient of personal responsibility...
What is Choice?
500
Copy Directions for each step, just the bold print, be spontaneous, be honest, be creative, and dive deep...
What is Five Guidelines for Creating a Meaningful Journal?
500
Thinking deeply about life...your Instructors want you to be as curious about their subject as they are...
What is Intellectual Curiosity?
500
Four strategies common to good learners...
What is CORE (Collect, Organize, Rehearse, and Evaluate)
500
Learning Soft Skills well help you succeed in your first career after college...
What is Making effective decisions, setting goals, managing time, prioritizing tasks, working well in teams, communicating effectively....?
500
A Case Study in Critical Thinking
What is The Late Paper?