For Student Success courses in high school, career college, community college, or university settings.

This book takes a logical approach to student success by starting with stress management in making positive behavioral changes for academic and personal success.

Navigating Your Future Success  is readable and relevant to engage students in assessing their academic and workplace skills and develop a plan for success, starting with the critical foundation of stress management. MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com) helps students to 'Start strong, Finish stronger' by acquiring the skills they need to succeed for ongoing personal and professional development.

Teaching & Learning Experience: Logical Learning Outcomes

How will students do well if they are “stressed out” as this impacts all aspects of their lives? Students will learn to harness stress in a positive way and set goals in their interpersonal skill areas to maximize external success skills. This program provides:

·        Personalized Learning with MyStudentSuccessLab: Whether face-to-face or online, MyStudentSuccessLab helps students build the skills they need through peer-led video interviews, interactive practice exercises, and activities that provide academic, life, and professionalism skills.

·        Personal Success Skills - Internal (or intrapersonal) success skills focus on how to do well “within yourself”. Stress management is followed by positive attitude, time management, goal setting, learning styles, critical/creative thinking, improving memory, and test taking.

·        Professional Success Skills – Skills for succeeding “within your program and beyond.” These skills focus on communication, group interaction, team building, job-seeking, and leadership development.

·        Effective Teaching Techniques – This book includes exercises to facilitate positive behavioral changes. Affective teaching differs from cognitive (theory) teaching, so behavioral changes are presented succinctly to show quick positive results that last.

 Note: This is the standalone book, if you want the book/access code order the ISBN below:

Package consists of:   

0321885988 / 9780321885982 Navigating Your Future Success

0321943252 / 9780321943255 NEW MyStudentSuccessLab 2013 Update -- Valuepack Access Card

Bruce Colbert is an Associate Professor and Director of the Allied Health Department of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He has authored 10 books, developed an interactive worktext and DVD program on student success and has given over 300 invited lectures and interactive workshops at both the regional and national level. Many of Bruce’s workshops are devoted to softer skills such as stress and time management, enhancing critical and creative thinking, and developing effective decision making skills. He also consults with educational programs on improving teaching effectiveness by utilizing active teaching and learning techniques. Bruce is most proud of his volunteer work with wounded veterans in helping them to successfully transition into the workplace. 

Part One: Traveling Toward Personal Success