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MindTap College Success, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Harrington's Student Success in College: Doing What Works!, 3rd Edition

Christine Harrington

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MindTap College Success, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Harrington's Student Success in College: Doing What Works! 3rd Edition by Christine Harrington

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Overview

MindTap College Success for Harrington's Student Success in College: Doing What Works!, 3rd Edition, is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course -- to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual, and to build their confidence. MindTap, with its integrated personal success indicator and early-alert reporting feature, helps your students assess and improve the specific behaviors, attitudes, and skills that have been proven to lead to college and career success. It also helps you, as the instructor, to easily personalize student learning by seamlessly combining your own assignments, YouTube videos, and innovative course activities with Cengage's market-leading content into a singular learning path designed to truly elevate student thinking. New for 2021: Empower your students to connect the dots between what they\u2019re learning now and their current or future careers with \u201CHow Transferable Are Your Skills?\u201D \u2013 a new MindTap activity that challenges students to identify how personal and academic experiences can help them become career-ready. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap!

Meet the Authors

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Christine Harrington

Dr. Christine Harrington is a professor and co-coordinator of the doctorate degree of education in community college leadership program at New Jersey City University. Prior to this role, she served a two-year term as the executive director of the Center for Student Success at the Council of County Colleges, supporting all 19 community colleges in the state with student success reform efforts. Dr. Harrington worked at Middlesex College for almost 20 years in the following roles: professor of psychology, student success course coordinator, director for the Center for the Enrichment of Learning and Teaching, counselor and disability services provider. She earned a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Lehigh University, an M.A. in counseling and personnel services and a B.A. in psychology from The College of New Jersey. She taught the student success course at the community college level for more 15 years, often teaching special sections for students with learning disabilities. Dr. Harrington frequently presents at national conferences, colleges and universities on student success and teaching and learning topics such as student engagement and motivation, the syllabus and dynamic lecturing. She is the lead or sole author for numerous books including Why First-Year Seminars Matter: Helping Students Choose and Stay on a Path, Keeping us Engaged: Student Perspectives (and Research-based Evidence) on What Works and Why, Dynamic Lecturing: Research-based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness, Designing a Motivational Syllabus: Creating a Learning Path for Student Engagement, Ensuring Learning: Supporting Faculty to Improve Student Success and Engaging Faculty in Guided Pathways: A Practical Resource for College Leaders. . Dr. Harrington received the 2016 Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award at the Annual Conference of the First-Year Experience hosted by the National Resource Center on the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

What's New

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NEW - The "Discover Your Resources" activity connects students to the resources they need to reach their goals. "What Would You Do" activities encourage students to apply course concepts in a real-world setting.
NEW - “How Transferable Are Your Skills?” activities empower your students to connect the dots between what they’re learning now and their current or future careers, challenging them to identify how personal and academic experiences can help them become career-ready.

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MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools, saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, it automatically grades assignments and quizzes while providing students with instant feedback.
With the MindTap mobile app, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzes.
Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times — both individually and compared to the highest performers in class — within the student view of the Progress app.
Use the chapter quizzes to assess your students' grasp of the material and have them complete activities that help them get and stay on track. Goal-setting and academic and career planning activities help students identify where they want to be and how to get to get there.

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Getting Started in MindTap.
CSFI for Student Success in College.
PART I: DETERMINING YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS.
Introduction: Getting Started.
Learning Outcomes for Introduction: Getting Started. Introduction: Getting Started Readings. Introduction: Getting Started Assignments. Introduction: Getting Started Videos.
Discovering the Value of Education and Sharpening Key Thinking Skills.
Learning Outcomes for Discovering the Value of Education and Sharpening Key Thinking Skills. Discovering the Value of Education and Sharpening Key Thinking Skills Readings. Discovering the Value of Education and Sharpening Key Thinking Skills Assignments. Discovering the Value of Education and Sharpening Key Thinking Skills Videos.
Setting Goals and Choosing a Career Path.
Learning Outcomes for Setting Goals and Choosing a Career Path. Setting Goals and Choosing a Career Path Readings. Setting Goals and Choosing a Career Path Assignments. Setting Goals and Choosing a Career Path Videos.
PART II: STRATEGIES AND SKILLS FOR SUCCESS.
Building Academic Skills.
Learning Outcomes for Building Academic Skills. Building Academic Skills Readings. Building Academic Skills Assignments. Building Academic Skills Videos.
Strengthening Soft Skills.
Learning Outcomes for Strengthening Soft Skills. Strengthening Soft Skills Readings. Strengthening Soft Skills Assignments. Strengthening Soft Skills Videos.
Demonstrating Knowledge and Skills.
Learning Outcomes for Demonstrating Knowledge and Skills. Demonstrating Knowledge and Skills Readings. Demonstrating Knowledge and Skills Assignments. Demonstrating Knowledge and Skills Videos.
PART III: BEING SUCCESSFUL: PLANS AND PERSEVERANCE.
Mapping Your Path to Success: Plans and Action Steps.
Learning Outcomes for Mapping Your Path to Success: Plans and Action Steps. Mapping Your Path to Success: Plans and Action Steps Readings. Mapping Your Path to Success: Plans and Action Steps Assignments. Mapping Your Path to Success: Plans and Action Steps Videos.
Staying on Track and Celebrating Success.
Learning Outcomes for Staying on Track and Celebrating Success. Staying on Track and Celebrating Success Readings. Staying on Track and Celebrating Success Assignments. Staying on Track and Celebrating Success Videos.
Exploring the Research in Depth Appendix.

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