The 3rd edition of Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff? (Pearson Education) has been released! You can find more information on this book at Pearson Education, Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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This is a book about personal choices--responsible choices that will help students get what they want from school and life. Throughout the text, students are asked, “What are you doing to get what you want?” Each chapter and every activity demonstrates how responsible decision-making and follow-through put potential and ambition into action. Choices for College Success shows how actions can turn dreams into reality. |
These actions (choices) will help students achieve academic success, a fulfilling career, and a healthy, balanced life. Choices for College Success shows how actions can turn dreams into reality. These actions (choices) will help students achieve academic success, a fulfilling career, and a healthy, balanced life.
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Engaging Activities for Motivation
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Infuse student success into any program with the “Engaging Activities for…” Series. Written and compiled by National Student Success Institute ( NSSI ® ) co-founders Amy Baldwin, Steve Piscitelli, and Robert Sherfield, the material is sure to connect, support, and empower educators in the Two-Year, Technical, and Career Colleges. |
These booklets contain strategies, procedural information, and activities that you can use with your students immediately. If you like this NSSI® Booklet on Engaging Activities for Motivation, you will love the series: Academic Success, Retention, Understanding the Culture of College, Critical Thinking, and Motivation.
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Study Skills - Do I Really Need This Stuff? (2nd Edition)
What am I doing to get what I want?
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If students can ask and answer this question they will be on the path to academic success. The 2nd edition of Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff? makes potentially difficult and dry subject matter come alive by integrating two critical themes for academic and life success : critical thinking and personal choice. More than 120 reflective activities allow students to practice each study skill using specific standards of critical thinking . |
The second theme, that of personal choice , reinforces that responsible decision making and follow-through put potential and ambition into action. Ambition is the desire ; potential is the ability ; initiative is the doing . Effective study skills will empower students to do what is needed to master their course requirements and this book will provide the necessary tools!
Published by Pearson Prentice Hall (2009). To order this book click here or call 1- 800-922-0579.
ISBN-10: 0135146577; ISBN-13: 9780135146576.
Rhythms of College Success: A Journey of Discovery, Change, and Mastery
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Building on Steve Piscitelli's classroom experiences and workshops, his new book Rhythms of College Success: A Journey of Discovery, Change, and Mastery focuses on the whole student - both internally and externally. It embraces the power of personal choice and addresses the (sometimes) competing needs of first-year students. Using a universal theme of music, the book offers memorable messages that show how respect, responsibility, reflection, and renewal can fuel student success. |
Throughout the text, readers are introduced to the 4Rs and how these, along with change and life balance, impact one's future and one's success. More than 100 activities, 75 figures and innovative part openers keep students engaged and help them on their own journey of discovery, change and mastery.
Published by Pearson Prentice Hall (2008). To order this book click here or call 1- 800-922-0579.
ISBN-13: 9780132386401.
Study Skills - Do I Really Need This Stuff?
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Presenting basic study skills in a student-friendly manner, this text uses more than 140 success strategies, 30 activities, 43 exhibits and figures, and 6 workplace case studies. The skills introduced help students become shrewd, insightful, and confident; and can also be utilized in the workplace. To find out more about the book click here or call 1-800-526-0485 |
I Don't Need This Stuff! Or Do I?
A Study Skills and Time Management Book
(Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997)
Does Anyone Understand This Stuff?
A Student Guide To Organizing United States History.
(Atlantic Beach, Florida: Stephen Piscitelli, 1998).
ARTICLES (selected)
• “A dubious rite of passage: Educators work on changing culture of bullying.” In The Florida Times-Union (Shorelines) p. 1+. December 20, 2003 . [Page one article on nature of schoolyard bullying and attempts to deal with the challenge.] http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/122003/nes_14343345.shtml
• "Love and Marriage in the City Market." The Savannah Morning News, page 4 of the Diversions Section. February 14, 2003 . [An article about an annual renewal of marriage vows ceremony in the old City Marketplace.]
• "WWII Army camp protected coast from invasion." In The Florida Times-Union (Shorelines) p. 1+. May 29, 2002. [Page one article on a World War II Army camp in Atlantic Beach , Florida . Includes interviews with veterans.] http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052902/nes_9508886.shtml
• "Beaches communities ready to dance in street." In The Florida Times-Union (Shorelines) p. 1+. May 15, 2002 . [Page one article on an annual community festival at the beaches.]
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/051502/nes_9397551.shtml
• "Not just fixing drinks: Barkeeps face new roles and risks." In The Florida Times-Union (Shorelines) p. 1+. November 28, 2001. [Page one article on the changes and challenges bartenders face.]
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/112801/nes_7922892.shtml
• "Sideline Smokey." In Jacksonville Magazine. September, 2001. 61-63. [Feature article about Steve Spurrier's "body guard"/head of team security.]
• "Rockers in Suburbia." In Jacksonville Magazine. March, 2001. 99-106.[Feature article about local baby boomer rock musicians.]
• "Donner Subdivision: The Rhythms of a Community." In Neighborhoods Magazine. January/February, 2001. 33-35. [Article about a local African-American community.]
• " Dartmoor Prison." In The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. (Denver: ABC Clio, 1998). [Article about an English prison during the War of 1812.]
