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Course Special Designators
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Course Description:
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A single purpose course designed to support learning in either an academic field or in a vocation. Provides support in understanding how the brain functions and applying that knowledge to goal setting and time management strategies.
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Course Outline:
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- Brain-based Learning: creating dendrites, active learning strategies. - Learning Styles: multiple intelligences; left brain/right brain learning preferences, teaching styles/preferences. - Goal Setting: Identifying personal values and how they relate to current/future goals; personal mission statement. - Time Management: Identification of time wasters; strategies and models of time management; time controllers and how to delegate; the logic of procrastination and how to overcome it. - Final exam
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Lab Outline:
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Course Measurable Objectives:
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Using a brain-based research perspective, students will: 1. Identify and understand the implications of brain-based research for their own learning process. 2. Identify different teaching and learning theories. 3. Identify and prioritize personal goals. 4. Analyze personal time use and align with personal goals. 5. Identify teambuilding strategies and apply those strategies to collaborative learning exercises.
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Course Methods of Evaluation:
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Category 1.
Substantial written assignments for this course include:
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Essay Exam(s) Written Homework Term or Other Paper(s)
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If the course is
degree applicable, substantial written assignments in this course are
inappropriate because:
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Category 2.
Computational or non-computational problem solving demonstrations:
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Exam(s) Homework Problem(s)
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Category 3. Skills
Demonstrations:
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Class Performance(s)
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Category 4.
Objective Examinations:
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Multiple Choice Matching Items Short Answer True/False
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Sample
Assignments:
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1. Use brain-based research and your current life habits (including your physical, emotional, and mental patterns), to write a 2-3 page paper identifying what experiences support your memory functions and which ones hinder them. 2. Identify your three biggest time wasters and, using the techniques learned in class, create a plan for what you will do to use that time more constructively. 3. Create a one-week SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely) goal that you can accomplish and evaluate your effectiveness in completing the goal. Present this goal in a one-page paper.
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