College, Work and Life Success | Madison College Outline of Instruction

10-835-106 College, Work and Life Success

Course Information

Description

This course provides learners with strategies to develop skills for success in college. Learners will apply self management techniques, explore resource management strategies, create a personalized "College Success Tool Kit", and learn about ways to improve personal effectiveness.

Total Credits

Course Competencies

Evaluate learning style and career targets

Assessment Strategies

Analyzing personalized academic success tool kit.

Creating personalized academic success tool kit.

Criteria

you identify your learning style(s).

you identify strategies that accommodate your learning style in a variety of learning situations

you examine and reflect upon your value system from a world-view perspective.

you examine and reflect upon your work values using psycho-social assessments

you align your work values to potential career aspirations via career tools.

you identify resonant career paths and create a plan to investigate and choose a career

you identify the concepts of emotional intellegence.

you recognize the impact of emotional intellegence within your personal, academic, and career environments

you create emotional intelligence learning plan that can be applied within your personal, academic and career environments.
Think critically

Assessment Strategies

Applying problem-solving strategies in a given context.

Apply information analysis strategies in a given context

Criteria

you use details to discover larger ideas/abstractions.

you examine existing ideas and develop new ones.

you manage and interpret information in a reliable way

you are able to recognize the ideas you should abandon

you recognize reliable evidence and form sound conclusions.

you connect ideas and facts to find new possibilities.

you are able to think creatively about missing assumptions

you are able to think creatively about alternative solutions

you can identify the key ideas

you can formulate logical arguments and avoid pitfalls, i.e. logical fallacies

you can convincingly present your ideas to others
Use academic resources

Assessment Strategies

Identifying academic resources.

using academic resources.

applying academic resources.

Criteria

you identify and locate academic resources at your campus

you comprehend the benefits and utility of the academic resources at your campus.

you identify and locate your assigned academic advisor

you create a multi-semester advising schedule

you identify the dates you can register

you create an academic plan that allows for flexibility

you identify potential barriers to executing your academic plan

you plan for solutions to potential barriers

you comprehend standards for academic success (MATC's institutional academic policy)
Display self-awareness

Assessment Strategies

create a life plan for success

create a academic plan for success

Criteria

you identify your core values.

you identify your perspectives and world views

you identify your underlying negative thought processes.

you identify your underlying positive thought processes.

you analyze your self-defeating behavioral patterns.

you analyze your self-affirming behavioral patterns

you include assessment of where you were

you include assessment of where you are

you include assessment of where you want to go

you include your life goals

you include your academic goals

you include actions to reach short-term goals

you include actions to reach long-term goals

you include list of potential barriers

you include strategies to manage barriers
Analyze inner motivation

Assessment Strategies

Creating a Life Plan for success.

Creating an Academic Plan for success.

Criteria

you identify your life dreams.

you identify intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to success.

you analyze how intrinsic and extrinsic rewards affect your motivation

you create a life plan for success

you include your life goals

you include your academic goals

you include long-term goals

you include short-term goals.

you include actions to reach long-term goals

you include actions to reach sort-term goals

you include strategies to manage barriers.
Employ self-management strategies

Assessment Strategies

Reflecting on your actions

Reflecting on your strategies

Reporting on your actions

Reporting on your strategies

Criteria

you identify how you utilize your time

you track how you utilize your time

you assess the use of your time

you evaluate a variety of self management tools (i.e. calendars, tracking forms, next action list)

you assess your persistence/self-discipline in your actions

you identify strategies to address your lack of persistence/self-discipline.

plan includes self management tools.

plan includes strategies to address lack of persistence/self-discipline.
Analyze personal financial choices and decisions

Assessment Strategies

Reflecting on your attitudes

Reflecting on your actions

Reflecting on your strategies.

Reporting on your attitude

Reporting on your actions

Reporting on your strategies

Criteria

you differentiate between needs and wants

you identify cost of basic needs

you set goals

you track your saving and spending

you use resources to obtain credit counseling

you analyze your saving spending and credits

you create a saving and spending plan in alignment with your goals
Apply concepts of personal health and wellness

Assessment Strategies

Reflecting on your attitudes

Reflecting on your actions

Reflecting on you Strategies

Reporting on your attitudes

Reporting on your actions

Reporting on your strategies

Criteria

you identify the stressful elements in your life

you create a plan to reduce the stressful elements

you follow your plan to reduce the stressful elements

you self monitor your eating, sleeping and exercising patterns

you identify weaknesses in your eating, sleeping and exercising patterns

you create a plan to improve your eating, sleeping and exercising patterns

you follow your plan to improve your eating sleeping and exercising patterns

you request professional assistance if you are unsuccessful in reducing stress in your life
Demonstrate personal responsibility

Assessment Strategies

Reflecting on your attitudes

Reflecting on your actions

Reflecting on your decisions

Reporting on your attitudes

Reporting on your actions

Reporting on your decisions

Criteria

you identify your role in making decisions

you identify good and bad decisions related to academic and life choices

you appraise strengths, weaknesses in relationship to any decision you make

you analyze the potential consequences and outcomes of your decisions

you make a choice based on your analysis of a decision that would be most effective

you identify the actions needed to implement the decision

you implement the decision

you obtain feedback on the outcome of your decision

you assess the effectiveness of your decision
Analyze interpersonal relationships

Assessment Strategies

Reflecting on the nature of healthy relationships

Reflecting on the nature of unhealthy relationships

Criteria

you identify factors that contribute to building healthy relationships

you identify factors that interfere with building healthy relationships

you identify effective listening strategies

you use effective listening strategies

you identify characteristics of effective non-verbal communication in a given context

you use effective non-verbal communication in a given context

you demonstrate appropriate communication techniques for a variety of audiences

you demonstrate appropriate communication techniques in a variety of contexts

you analyze the impact of self-concept on relationships

you assess your own communication strengths

you assess your own communication weaknesses

you identify methods of conflict resolution

you apply methods of conflict resolutions
Create skills for interdependence

Assessment Strategies

Participate on a team-based learning activity

Reflecting on a team-based learning activity

Criteria

you identify group goals

you follow established ground rules

you practice established principles of mutual respect

you demonstrate respect for cultural differences

you demonstrate respect for the opinions of others

you identify roles typically found in groups

you engage in productive roles in a group project

you avoid negative group roles

you perform multiple roles within a group

you participate in group interaction by your own initiative

you listen to group members

you give an accept constructive criticism

you propose goal-directed ideas to the group

you acknowledge group members responses with encouraging feedback

you share humor

you use non-verbal communication effectively

you demonstrate ability to compromise to reach consensus

you assess strengths and weaknesses of self and others

you analyze the effectiveness of group interactions

you analyze roles performed by members
Connect with the larger community

Assessment Strategies

Participate on an experiential activity

Participate on an community activity

Reflecting on an experiential activity

Reflecting on an community activity

Criteria

you describe the benefits of service learning

you identify service learning opportunities within your educational institution and your community

you develop a collective service learning opportunity with your fellow students during the duration of the class.

you execute a collective service learning opportunity with your fellow students during the duration of the class.

you reflect upon/journal your experience of participation within the service learning project

you identify and report on the positive intent and outcomes of the service learning project as they resonate with your particular world view

you construct and report on a life-long personalized service learning plan.