Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the assignments you have left to complete? This workshop will focus on getting you organized and knowing how to use the last few weeks of the term to maximize your academic success and set effective goals.

1. Don’t Fall Behind, End the Term Right!

2. Agenda Academic Support Time Management Stress Management Make a Plan: Set Short Term Goals to Meet Your Long Term Goals Tips to Survive the End of the Term .

3. Writing Critical Thinking Academic Research Stress Management Time Management Reading Efficiency Navigating ESC Resources Developing a Study Plan Learning Styles Goal Setting Rationale Essay The Pieces of Academic Success

5. Workshops (online & onsite)

6. Small group assistance (online & onsite)

8. A self-paced or credit-bearing study & resources - http://AcademicEye.pbworks.com

10. Academic Support @ NEC Peers Engagingas Energizing Resources Helping You Connect the Pieces for Academic Success Apeer coach is a current undergraduate or graduate student trained to guide and encourage other students in improving their academic performance and development as a life-long learner, focusing on general study skills, specific content-areas, navigating college resources, and developing within their Areas of Study. They work in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Peer coaches are trained under College Reading & Learning Association (CRLA) international standards for peer tutors and are either volunteers, work-study, or practicum students. Center-based & 0nline Academic Collaborative Helpers Enhancing Success

11. Manage your Time

12. How Much Time Do You Waste in a Day? Think about all of the things that you do in a day and ask yourself: “Could I be doing something more productive?”

13. Taking a Look at your Time Take a few min. to really think about what you do in one day. Write it down so that you can see it. By writing down your day and really looking at how you spend your time you will be able to see all of the time that you can use to get a little extra school work in.

14. Prioritizing Your Time. Important & Not Urgent (preparation, prevention, planning, relationships) Important & Urgent (crises, deadline-driven projects) Urgent & Not Important (interruptions, many pressing matters) Not Urgent & Not Important (trivia, time wasters) Adapted from Steven Covey’s First Things First

17. filling time with unimportant tasks

18. easily distracted after just beginning an important task

19. letting fear, dread, or discomfort take control

20. Understand why it happens

21. task is unpleasant

22. lack of organization

23. perfectionism (afraid you don’t have the skills to do a good job)

24. feeling overwhelmed

25. Adopt anti-procrastination strategies

26. aim to do one unpleasant task first

27. create your own reward system

29. Stress is natural. Stress can be energizing. We all feel it, and we all need some, but unmanaged, chronic stress can be harmful.

30. Increasing Your Resilience Sleep hygiene at least 7 hrs/night sleep schedule sleep habits Eating well Be aware of caffeine intake Taking time to relax Exercising Being positive Laughing out loud often Meditation and Yoga

31. Exercise: Increases resilience to stressor and your recovery from a stress response. Keep Moving: The way your joints get the oxygen rich blood that they need is to keep moving. This will help you from getting sore when you sit for long periods of time.

33. Be able to recognize when you are stressed

34. Accept the fact that taking time to “de-stress” IS being productive ,and you MUST take the time

36. How do I find out how stressed I am? How stressed are you? http://www.arc.sbc.edu/stressquiz.html Are you burned out? http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_08.htm

37. Make a Plan Set Short Term Goals to Meet Your Long Term Goals.

39. Check off the goals that you have accomplished so you can see your progress. Commit yourself completely Continually monitor your progress

40. 5 Goal Setting Tips Set Goals that Motivate You. Set SMART Goals Specific –make them clear and well defined Measurable- Make sure you have precise amounts of pages or dates so you can measure your success Attainable- Make sure they are attainable but also challenging Relevant- make sure your goals are relevant to what you are trying to achieve Time Bound- goals have to a dead line 3. Set Goals in Writing 4. Make an Action Plan 5. Stick with Your Plan http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_90.htm

41. Break the work into smaller pieces Educational Planning

42. Tips to Survive the End of the Term .

43. Review Your Learning Contracts = Key Concepts = Critical Thinking Skills = Expectations & Requirements *Make a list of what you have left to finish*

44. Review the comments from past papers This way you do not make the same mistakes

45. Create your personal Survival Plan Finish the reading chap.3-5 Dec.7 Write the 2 page paper on chap. 3&4 Dec. 11 Finish reading chap. 6-9 Dec. 15 Finish my research ` Dec. 17 Write My Final Paper Dec. 23 Watch My Favorite Movie. It is all about what is going to work best for you.

47. Convert information into visual study tools (diagrams, maps, charts)

48. Copy & write new info - see it in your own writing

49. You can retain and understand information better by teaching another person, or conversing with an instructor.

50. Record information and listen to it. You may benefit from using a recording device to make audio files to listen to later. Use computerized technology – Text to Speech in Word, Audacity, etc.

51. Learn by doing. Think of ways to make your learning tangible, i.e. something you can put your hands on. For example, make a model that illustrates a key concept. Spend extra time in a lab setting to learn an important procedure. Spend time in the field (e.g. a museum, historical site, or job site) to gain first-hand experience of your subject matter.

52. Pace as you study. When studying, walk back and forth with textbook, notes, or flashcards in hand and read the information out loud.