International MindTap College Success Instant Access for Staley/Staley's FOCUS on College and Career Success, 3rd Edition

Dr. Constance Staley, Dr. Steve Staley

Copyright 2018
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International MindTap College Success Instant Access for Staley/Staley's FOCUS on College and Career Success 3rd Edition by Dr. Constance Staley/Dr. Steve Staley

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Overview

International MindTap College Success for Staley/Staley's FOCUS on College and Career Success, 3rd Edition, is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.

As an instructor using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course. All online text media materials accessible through this access code are available in EMEA, Latin America, Asia, and India only.

Meet the Authors

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Dr. Constance Staley

Constance Staley is a professor of communication and acting dean of the Graduate School at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where she directed the First-Year Seminar Program for nearly 25 years. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Staley designs and teaches online courses (Professional Presentations), hybrid courses (Communication, Training and Consulting) and face-to-face courses (Conflict Management). Her works include a faculty training package, TEACHING COLLEGE SUCCESS, as well as the groundbreaking resource manual 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LECTERN. She also is the author of FOCUS ON COLLEGE SUCCESS and the co-author of FOCUS ON COLLEGE AND CAREER SUCCESS with Steve Staley. A well-known name in FYE circles, Dr. Staley is a leader in faculty development nationwide. During a three-year leave from the University of Colorado, she joined an East Coast Fortune 500 company to design and deliver its management and supervisory training. In addition, she represented the university as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching in the former Soviet Union. She earned a B.S. in education, an M.A. in linguistics and a Ph.D. in communication.

Dr. Steve Staley

Dr. Steve Staley is Professor of English and Humanities at Colorado Technical University, where in 2001 he originated, taught, and directed CTU's College Success course. Dr. Staley graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado. As Assistant Dean of Faculty and Professor of English at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Dr. Staley administered the Academy's successful Rhodes Scholarship program, directed faculty development, developed the First-Year Seminar "Interdisciplinary Education at the Academy" (IDEA) program, and originated a critically acclaimed course in "Physics and Literature." As a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College, he also served as a Research Fellow with the United Nations International Peace Academy, authoring The United Nations and Naval Peacekeeping, and co-authoring with Dr. Constance Staley Communicating in Business and The Professions: The Inside Word. As Director of Advising at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Dr. Staley helped develop the school's new First-Year Seminar program. Following a one-year Fulbright Fellowship teaching in Kyrgyzstan, he has served CTU for over 20 years as Dean of Academics, Director of Faculty Development, and Director of General Education.

Features

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MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.

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LEARNING PATH:

Instructor Video Library.
CSFI Walkthrough Videos.
Additional Videos.

CSFI for FOCUS on College and Career Success.

Meet the Cast.

Introduction to Students.

Readiness FOCUS Entrance Interview.

1. Becoming Mindful, Building Resilience.
Becoming Mindful, Building Resilience (Reading).
Becoming Mindful, Building Resilience Assignments.
Becoming Mindful, Building Resilience Videos.

2. Starting Strong, Setting Goals.
Starting Strong, Setting Goals (Reading).
Starting Strong, Setting Goals Assignments.
Starting Strong, Setting Goals Videos.

3. Learning Styles and Studying.
Learning Styles and Studying (Reading).
Learning Styles and Studying Assignments.
Learning Styles and Studying Videos.

4. Managing Your Time, Energy, and Money.
Managing Your Time, Energy, and Money (Reading).
Managing Your Time, Energy, and Money Assignments.
Managing Your Time, Energy, and Money Videos.

5. Thinking Critically and Creatively.
Thinking Critically and Creatively (Reading).
Thinking Critically and Creatively Assignments.
Thinking Critically and Creatively Videos.

6. Learning Online.
Learning Online (Reading).
Learning Online Assignments.
Learning Online Videos.

7. Engaging, Listening, and Note-Taking in Class.
Engaging, Listening, and Note-Taking in Class (Reading).
Engaging, Listening, and Note-Taking in Class Assignments.
Engaging, Listening, and Note-Taking in Class Videos.

8. Reading, Writing, and Presenting.
Reading, Writing, and Presenting (Reading).
Reading, Writing, and Presenting Assignments.
Reading, Writing, and Presenting Videos.

9. Developing Memory, Taking Tests.
Developing Memory, Taking Tests (Reading).
Developing Memory, Taking Tests Assignments.
Developing Memory, Taking Tests Videos.

10. Communicating in Groups, Valuing Diversity.
Communicating in Groups, Valuing Diversity (Reading).
Communicating in Groups, Valuing Diversity Assignments.
Communicating in Groups, Valuing Diversity Videos.

11. Choosing a College Major and Career.
Choosing a College Major and Career (Reading).
Choosing a College Major and Career Assignments.
Choosing a College Major and Career Videos.

12. Creating Your Future.
Creating Your Future (Reading).
Creating Your Future Assignments.
Creating Your Future Videos.

Reality FOCUS Exit Interview.

College Success Glossary.

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