In this session, we take some time to self reflect on our progress.  What is working for us at this point in the semester?  What adjustments do we need to make?  How can we continue to build our academic support network?  Have you taken time to familiarize yourself with the Ivy Tech website? What about MyIvy?  Taking the time to explore on our own for our own benefit and learning often times is a dividing line of the type of student we are versus the type of student we want to be.  Do you go beyond the basic requirements to push yourself or do you do just enough to get by?  This session’s discussion board asks us to take an honest look at our time usage in terms of academics again and the effort we are putting out. Do we need help?  Are we being assertive in our communication?  Are we able to see how a give and take relationship can benefit us?  Sometimes we give and give without knowing the impact it has on others, in the long run hopefully we get something out of it too even if it is an unexpected reaction.  Many times the best gifts are those we don’t expect to receive.  These are often a result of us giving of ourselves in some way. In this video we can see the immediate effect the family has on the dog, Faith, but we also see the gift that Faith was for the family.  They got just as much from this relationship, if not more.

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” -Vince Lombardi

Course & Module Objectives

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Increase self-awareness of personality type and learning-style and demonstrate the ability to take personal responsibility by creating personal and educational goals.
  • Modify vocabulary to practice the language of personal responsibility that leads to success
• Develop effective application of study skills such as note taking, listening, textbook usage, test preparation, concentration, memory skills, and time management.
  • Critique positive and self-defeating habit patterns and generate a plan for areas in need of adjustment
• Explore and apply critical and creative thinking strategies.
  • Identify characteristics of a successful student

Here is the content for this session:

• Textbook Reading: Lumen Ch. 9-Test Anxiety: Let’s Talk About Success, Communicating with Instructors, Test Anxiety and How to Control It, Taking Tests, Videos: Test Taking Tips and Test Anxiety
  
• Assignment: DB 5 – Listening Skills and Positive Thinking
• Assignment: Module 9 Quiz
• Assignment: Keep working on Project B: Student Success, which is due at the end of Module 14

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