Description For courses in First-Year Orientation, Student Success, Study Skills, Extended Orientation, Freshman Year Experience. The sixth edition helps students focus on practical strategies for CHANGE. Those who can master change with a positive attitude take calculated risks and maintain an open mind will succeed.
AbeBooks.com: Cornerstone: Creating Success Through Positive Change, Concise (6th Edition) (622) by Robert M. Sherfield; Patricia G.
Filled with inspiring stories and powerful activities, this motivating book teaches success through discovery, goal-setting and determination. Cornerstone utilizes SQ3R and Bloom's Taxonomy throughout, employing the reading and critical thinking strategies necessary for student achievement. Thoroughly updated, it includes a new chapter on Interpersonal Communication, and now extensively covers Information Literacy. Also provides updated and expanded information on money and debt management and a stronger focus on self-engagement. The chapter on Critical Thinking is brand new, empowering students to advance in the classroom and beyond. TECHNOLOGY OFFERING: MyStudentSuccessLab is available with this book upon request. It is an online solution designed to help students ‘Start strong, Finish stronger’ by building skills for ongoing personal and professional development.
Go to for a Point and Click DEMO of the Time Management module. Change implementation model—5 Step Plan promotes discussions and ties concepts to student learning and the academic self. Allows students to make connections and transfer knowledge and skills to other courses, giving them a tool they can use to plan and bring about positive change in their personal and academic lives. Reading and critical thinking strategies—are used throughout the text. Incorporates SQ3R and Bloom’s Taxonomy as learning tools, not just as a section of one chapter. Chapter-ending critical thinking exercise. Gives students the opportunity to analyze and apply chapter content to their own lives.
Section on academic integrity–Focuses on academic honesty. Helps students understand the importance of one's personal integrity and character, and the consequences of personal behavior. Interactive design—encourages students to remain active learners. Uses worksheets, assessments, and questions all in an open, action-oriented format. Scan & Question feature–appears in this edition, at the beginning of every chapter.
Incorporates SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review). This reading and study method is one of the most successful and widely used learning tools ever introduced. This feature will assist readers in using SQ3R to get the most out of every chapter. Allows students to make the most of their reading time in mastering the chapter's material. Knowledge in BLOOM feature–appears in this edition. This feature incorporates Bloom’s Taxonomy at the end of every chapter and throughout each chapter via margin activities further supporting cognitive learning.
Encourages readers to reflect and respond to questions from the best level of Bloom’s Taxonomy (knowledge, understanding, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation). Allows students to recognize and utilize the level appropriate for each specific activity. WHY Read This Chapter (Author Perspective) and WHY Read This Chapter. From My Perspective (Student Perspective)-begins each chapter motivating students.
Offers advice from the authors and former students as to why the chapter is important to the students' success, knowledge, college survival, and overall well-being. Gives reasons for readers to learn chapter material by relating it directly to their personal and academic lives.
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Real Stories of Personal Triumph–have been included in this edition to motivate and inspire students. Focuses on 15 individuals who faced huge obstacles and adversity in their life and went on to learn from their mistakes, reach their goals, and achieve their dreams. Inspires readers and reinforces the hope and promise that comes with education, goal-setting and determination.
Did You Know? Feature–appears in each chapter to motivate students. Brings together 15 small biographies of well-known personalities and the adversity they faced. Features people such as Abraham Lincoln, Tim McGraw, Jay Leno, Maya Angelou, Les Brown, Warren Buffett, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Florence Ballard.
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Money and Debt Management–totally updated and revised information to reflect today's 'new' economy. Includes a new ECONOMIC READINESS ASSESSMENT that asks students to estimate next semester's costs. New information on loans and how much it costs to repay them. New section called 'The Big IF's' offers tips for IF you have to buy a car; IF you have to purchase furniture; IF you have to cut your food expenses; IF you have to watch how much you spend on family; and IF you need to cut your fuel costs.
Stop Smoking–Totally new section on the effects of smoking and a day-to-day plan on how to stop smoking. TECHNOLOGY AND PEARSON CHOICES MyStudentSuccessLab is an online solution designed to help students ‘Start strong, Finish stronger’ by building skills for ongoing personal and professional development. This Learning Outcome based technology promotes student engagement through: The Learning Path Diagnostic offers for the course, 83 Full Course Pre- and Post-Diagnostic (Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels I-VI) questions, and for each topic, 20 Pre- and Post-Test (Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels I-VI) questions.
The Overview provides learning objectives to build vocabulary and repetition. Video interviews on key issues ‘by students, for students’.
The Practice exercises improve class preparation and learning. Graded Activities build critical thinking skills and develop problem-solving abilities (includes Essays and Journaling). Instructors benefit from an Implementation Guide to easily assign and assess progress. Students have access to relevant FinishStronger247 YouTube videos, the Pearson student Facebook page chock full of tips, MySearchLab use for doing effective research, and more.
PearsonChoices - CourseSmart and Custom Publishing. Having choices for how to deliver course content is important. CourseSmart Textbooks Online is an exciting new choice for students looking to save money. As an alternative to purchasing the print textbook, students can subscribe to the same content online and save up to 50% off the suggested list price of the print text. With a CourseSmart e-textbook, students can search the text, make notes online, print out reading assignments that incorporate lecture notes, and bookmark important passages for later review. For more information, or to subscribe, visit. Pearson Custom Publishing allows professors to create their own professionally produced customized textbooks and media products to best complement their course. We offer high-quality content, professional design, quick production, and reliable on-time delivery.
The result is a valuable textbook that students will use, cover to cover, tailored to meet exactly the needs of the professor, students, and course. Extensive Instructor Teaching Resources/Supplements Package offers a full array of teaching materials to feel confident and prepared for class, including instructor's manual, test bank, PowerPoint, video library, and more!
UPDATED INSTRUCTOR's MANUAL–Totally revised and updated IM that includes a new grid on how each activity and test item measures the objective in each chapter POWER POINTS–New and updated, full color PowerPoints to accompany each chapter TECHNOLOGY and TWITTER TIME - Each chapter of the text and IM will have ideas on how to use Twitter (and other social media) to best advantage. One such activity will ask students to summarize the entire chapter in ONE 140 character Tweet. Training for Faculty In-service Training tailored to your Objectives–For adoptions of 1,000 annual copies or more! Feel confident going into the first day of class prepared to engage your students with the materials. Please contact our Events Coordinator, email author Dr.
Robert Sherfield at with a question, or visit his website. About the Author(s) Robert M. Sherfield, Ph.D. Has been teaching public speaking, theatre, and student success and working with first-year orientation programs for over 25 years. Currently, he is a professor at the College of Southern Nevada, teaching student success, technical writing, public speaking, and drama. An award-winning educator, Robb was named Educator of the Year at the College of Southern Nevada.
He twice received the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award from the University of South Carolina Union, and has received numerous other awards and nominations for outstanding classroom instruction and advisement. Robb’s extensive work with student success programs includes experience with the design and implementation of these programs–including one program that was presented at the International Conference on the First-Year Experience in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He has conducted faculty development keynotes and workshops at over 350 institutions of higher education across America. He has spoken in 46 states and several foreign countries. As the Dean of her college, Dr. Moody led international trips to build relationships and establish joint research projects in hospitality.
Under her direction, faculty members in her college began a landmark study of Chinese Tourists. Pat now travels the country delivering workshops, keynotes, and presentations on topics such as Managing Change, Working in the New Global Community, The Future of the Future, Student Motivation, and Emotional Intelligence. She also serves as a personal coach for business executives.