1. Study 85A: Academic Success Basics
Welcome!
Study 85A: Academic Success Basics
#23458
Mt. San Antonio College
Fall, 2017
Tuesdays
1:10am – 2:20am
Room 6-136
Professor:
Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., GCDFI
Please remember to turn off your cell phone!

3. Learning Pyramid:
Many Ways to Learn

4. Brain-Based Learning: How Does the Brain Learn?

5. Student (Academic) Success?
It’s Complicated

6. Student (Academic) Success? Affected by Many Things

7. Student (Academic) Success
Student (Academic) Success? It’s Not About Being Smart Enough – Most Students are Distracted by “Life”

8. Student (Academic) Success. So What Should You Do About It
Student (Academic) Success? So What Should You Do About It? Welcome to STDY 85A!

9. Most Memorable Quotes:
“I understand you have a lot going on in your life, but I’m trying to prepare you for the university and the “real world”. … They don’t want to hear excuses.”
Countless Unnamed Professors, Rio Hondo College
“A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
Author Unknown
"You can always find a million excuses for not doing something. …The problem is that excuses do nothing more than pacify your own guilt for not doing what you should have done in the first place."
Richard Young, Retired Fitness Coach, Rio Hondo College
“If you fall down, get up, dust off, and get going again."
“You know, Kathleen…Only ‘boring’ people get bored.” (Attitude is a choice.)
MiMi High, My mother…in response to my adolescent whining!
“Don’t sacrifice what you want most for what you want now.”
Dr. Laura Schlessinger