3. Mission

4. Pieces of Academic Success

5. Outcomes

6. Services & Resources

12. Incorporate traditional and technology-based resources in their learning,

13. Use effective strategies in different learning engagements,

14. Create positive learning environments for themselves,

15. Increase their self-confidence while decreasing stress, and

18. Peer Coaches work with students one-to-one (online & onsite)

20. YouTube – www.youtube.com/NECAcademicSupport

21. SlideShare - http://www.slideshare.net/NECAcademicSupport

22. Enhancing the Academic Eye a self-paced or credit-bearing study - AcademicEye.pbworks.com

23. Phasing out Dec 2010-- ANGEL Community Group - NEC Academic Support http://www.esc.edu/ole

36. Apply your learning to your own experiences. Make connections between what you are learning and what you already know.

37. Ask questions when needed and do not let problems go unresolved! Be a self-directed and self-motivated learner.

38. Maximize your learning. Understand requirements, assignments, and methods of evaluation by reviewing your learning contract(s).

40. Several strategies can assist you in being more efficient and effective with your reading, writing, and critical thinking.

41. Understand the purpose of your studies/courses will also help you better complete your reading & writing assignments.

42. What are you supposed to learn about and what outcome is expected?

43. Activate your schema.

46. 60 minutes in an hour,

47. 24 hours in a day,

48. 168 hours in a week,

49. 720 hours in a month,

53. Pick the appropriate strategies and tool(s) to help you best organize your time.

62. Have strong visualization skills. They can look up and “see” the information invisibly written or drawn.

63. Make “movies in their minds” of information they are reading. Their movies are often vivid and detailed.

64. Have very strong visual-spatial understanding of things such as sizes, textures, angles and three-dimensional depths.

65. Pay close attention to the body language of others (facial expressions, eyes, stance, etc.).

67. Visualize & make movies as you read and study.

68. Add pictures to as many study tools as possible.

69. Use "color coding" of new information in your textbook or notes. Using highlighter pens, highlight different kinds of information in contrasting colors.

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

71. Use nonverbal clue’s by instructors to provide you with important information.

73. Have strong language skills, which include a well-developed vocabulary and an appreciation for words.

74. Have strong oral communication skills. They can carry or interesting conversations and can articulate their ideas clearly.

75. Have a “fine tuned ear” auditory may lead to learning a foreign language more easily.

77. Discuss/study with friends.

78. Record information and listen to it.

79. Add rhythms or tunes to your learning.

81. Often have well coordinated and have a strong sense of timing and body movement.

82. Learn with movement = often do well as performers: athletes, actors, or dancers.

83. Often wiggle, tap feet or move their legs when seated.

86. Pace as you study.

87. Make larger-sized study tools – flipcharts, chalk/white boards.

88. Learn by doing.

89. Use case studies, examples and applications.

90. Use your hands and your fine motor skills. Study with pen/pencil in hand.

92. Remember information displayed as words.

93. Emphasize text-based input and output - reading and writing in all its forms.

96. Use dictionaries and/or make flashcards to remember key vocabulary.

97. Write out the words again and again.

98. Read your notes (silently) again and again.

99. Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words.

100. Organize any diagrams, graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..."