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Counselling Workshop Descriptions
Acing Multiple Choice Tests will provide you with strategies
for successfully preparing and writing multiple choice tests and exams.
Common Cents: Managing your Money is a workshop that will help
you improve how you handle your money. You’ll learn how to create
a personal budget and understand more about handling your needs, wants
and assessing both your income and your expenses.
Countdown to Finals will help you identify challenges
you may face in preparing for finals get you started with a plan of action
to get the most out of your studying.
Countdown to Midterms will help you identify challenges
you may face in preparing for midterms and help you get started with a
plan of action to get the most out of your studying.
Getting it Together & Keeping it Together will provide you
with techniques to set academic goals and stick to them! Both long term
goals and short term goals will be explored in this workshop.
Learning and Study Strategies will explore strategies
based on brain research to help you study smarter not longer. Learn a
strategy to keep up with weekly reading assignments and turn class time
into learning time.
Multiple Intelligences: Not how smart you are but how you are
smart: Identifying and understanding our most developed intelligences
helps us to choose the most effective strategies for learning and team
work. It may be our ability to understand and cooperate with others (Interpersonal
Intelligence), our ability to manipulate physical objects (Bodily/Kinesthetic
Intelligence) or to learn and express using rhythm and melody ( Musical/Rhythmic
Intelligence). Learn about applying your intelligences to best advantage.
Netiquette, or “network etiquette” in a
high tech world will help increase your awareness of issues related to
sending emails, text messages, and using your cell phone, mp3 player,
laptop or any other gadget you own appropriately and effectively in the
College or a work setting.
Note-Making will help you learn different note-making
strategies, develop a personal technique and improve your ability to learn
from lectures and textbooks.
Sleep Better, Work Smarter will help you learn more about
the importance of sleep and give you strategies to determine how to improve
your sleep.
Stress Management will help you identify major stress
factors in your life and explore practical solutions to manage and/or
change them.
Stress Management
Workshop is also offered online.
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Studying with Children Around: This workshop is for students
who are parents/guardians. You will learn how to study at home effectively–
even with your kids underfoot!
Succeeding as a Mature Student is a workshop that will
allow mature students to share ideas about their unique challenges as
students and learn effective ways to be successful at College.
Succeeding as a Second Career Student: If you are a
Second Career Student, come to this workshop to meet other students in
the Second Career program. This workshop will give you an opportunity
to learn and share ideas and information about the program as well as
gain effective strategies to be successful during your College experience.
Time Management will provide you with helpful information
and strategies around managing your time. Using techniques learned in
the workshop, you will begin to develop your own approach to managing
your priorities.
Understanding Your Learning Style will explore your strengths
in learning and help you recognize how you best take in and understand
new learning for optimum use of your class and study time.
What’s What: Get Organized: Do you want to figure
out how to organize you schoolwork? Come and discover how simple it can
be. You will be shown easy techniques that will help you succeed in your
college program.
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Revised:
September 1, 2010
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