Using the Instructor S Manual, Test Bank, Power Points and Textbook

Thriving in the Community College & Beyond: Strategies for Academic Success and Personal Development (2nd edition Instructor’s Manual) Using the Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, Power Points and Textbook

Instructor’s Manual

1. Getting Started with your FYE Course

 Overview of suggestions to get your course up and running

 Videos about the students you are teaching

2. Icebreakers

 Resources for all types of Icebreakers

3. Teaching the Introduction and Individual Chapters

 Key objective

 Using the Text in Class-ideas to use chapter exercises in class

 Additional Activities to use in Class-activities not found in the book that can be used in class to illustrate the content for a particular chapter

 Videos to use in Class

 Possible Minute Papers

 Learning Exercises and Assignments-Assignments and/or exercises that can be used as homework, papers, etc. Some of these are from the book, others are not.

 Additional On-Line Resources

4. Ending the Course  Ideas on ways to end the course and help students realize what they have learned throughout the semester

5. Appendix

 Resources, worksheets, etc. that have been referred to throughout the IM

Test Bank

1. Contains multiple choices, true/false, and essay questions for each chapter

Power Points

1. Summarizes key chapter points to assist with lecture and discussion

Textbook

1. Thought Starters

 Questions at the beginning of the chapter designed to stimulate discussion, thoughts, and feelings about the chapter topic

2. Think About Its/Journal Entries

 Questions intended for students to pause, reflect, and think about the material they just read

3. Snapshot Summary Boxes

 Summaries of key chapter concepts and strategies

4. Do It Now! Boxes

 Signal to immediately put the suggested strategies to use

5. Remember Cues  A very important piece of information that deserves special attention

6. Quotes

 From famous and influential people relating to the chapter

7. Student Perspectives

 First hand experiences and actual words of real life students.

8. Author’s Experience

 Situations actually experienced by the authors that have relevance to the chapter

9. End of Chapter Exercises

 Intended for students to turn the knowledge they learned in the chapter into action

10. End of Chapter Reflections

 Allows students to reflect on what they learned in the chapter and how it applies to college and life