Robert S. Feldman | Danica Lavoie
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Overview
Feldman, Power Learning and Your Life, Fourth Canadian Edition is designed to help students succeed in their academic journey and beyond. Following the principles of the P.O.W.E.R learning system (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink), students will learn how to apply this process in their everyday lives.
Many new updates are featured in the new edition, including chapters devoted to stress management, financial management, and content about technology and online learning. Extensive updates have also been made to the chapter about career planning to ensure students are armed with the latest tools and strategies to succeed.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Becoming a Successful Student
CHAPTER 2 Making the Most of Your Time
CHAPTER 3 Reading and Remembering
CHAPTER 4 Taking Notes
CHAPTER 5 Taking Tests
CHAPTER 6 Leveraging Technology and Developing Information Competency
CHAPTER 7 Writing and Presenting
CHAPTER 8 Making Decisions and Solving Problems
CHAPTER 9 Collaborating with Others
CHAPTER 10 Managing Stress
CHAPTER 11 Managing Money
CHAPTER 12 Planning Your Career
What's Inside
Digital Solutions: Connect
The Fourth Canadian edition of Feldman is available in Connect. Connect is an award-winning digital teaching and learning solution designed to enhance your teaching style. It allows you to deliver, personalize and measure your course with ease. Plus, Connect can integrate with your LMS system to provide a seamless experience for you and your students.
Features
Student Friendly: Feldman 4ce was designed to capture students’ attention and engage them with the content. Images, charts, photos and infographics are featured throughout to showcase the diversity of students as well as the latest in technological aids and devices.
P.O.W.E.R Learning Framework for Success: Each chapter applies the principles of the P.O.W.E.R. system (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink) so students can clearly see how easy it is to incorporate this process into their everyday routine.
Reinforced Learning: Following their introduction in the first chapter, concepts like multiple intelligences, values, learning styles, and Striving Styles™ are reinforced throughout the book.
Skill-Building Opportunities: Each chapter offers numerous exercises and activities to reinforce key concepts and relate the material to students’ other courses.
Connection of Academic and Career Success: Each chapter links the material to the world of work and demonstrates how the chapter strategies are related to career choices and success.
Development of Critical Thinking Skills: Throughout the resource, students are encouraged to assess their skills, reflect on their progress, and think critically about related experiences. Cases in each chapter provide an opportunity for students to consider what they have learned and use critical thinking skills to respond to related questions.
SmartBook 2.0: Within Connect, students have access to SmartBook, an adaptive learning and reading tool that personalizes content to each student’s unique needs. Because SmartBook creates the ideal study path for each student, every minute they spend studying is the most effective minute possible. SmartBook highlights the key topics students should focus on, and supplies links to additional learning materials like slideshows, videos and more so they can enhance their understanding of key learning objectives.
SmartBook
SmartBook is an adaptive teaching and learning experience available within Connect, designed to create a customized learning path for every student. By identifying gaps in knowledge, SmartBook helps students study more efficiently by providing additional reinforcement where needed. With detailed insights on student performance, instructors can identify areas of weakness and strength among course topics to better inform their teaching approach and create a more engaging classroom.
Inclusive Access with Power Learning and Your Life
What is Inclusive Access? Inclusive Access is a partnership between an institution, bookstore, and publisher to deliver digital course materials to students through their course fees on or before the First Day of class, making access affordable for everyone.
Bloom’s Taxonomy for Power Learning and Your Life
Our solutions are designed to engage your students in course content to develop higher-order thinking skills. Here’s an overview of the tools available within Connect for the Fourth Canadian Edition of Feldman Power Learning and Your Life:
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About the Author
Danica Lavoie
Danica Lavoie left Dalhousie, a small town in northern New Brunswick to attend Humber College in Toronto (population then 2 million). It was there that she encountered some remarkable professors—Michael Hatton, Pam Hanft, and Wayson Choy—who inspired her and encouraged her to continue her studies. She went on to complete an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Waterloo; a Master of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business; and, later on, obtained a Teacher of Adults Certificate from Centennial College. While studying for her MBA, Professor Lavoie was offered the opportunity by one of her former professors to teach part time at Humber College. Though she was only 22 at the time, it was this teaching experience that many years later motivated her to return to the classroom after a successful career in banking and as an entrepreneur. She has never regretted moving from her lucrative business career into teaching, noting that every semester is different, and every day brings a chance to make a difference in a student’s life.