Bøger af Saundra Yancy McGuire

Whether a student possesses effective learning and study strategies makes the difference between academic success and discouraging failure. The Parents' Guide to Studying and Learning is an easy-to-use companion for parents to help their students truly learn and get better grades. For more than 40 years, Professor Saundra Yancy McGuire has worked to improve college students' study skills and helped professors adopt evidence-based strategies for improving their students' learning and motivation. Dr. McGuire's approach is based on research and extensive experience that has convinced her that everyone can succeed academically. And now she is turning her attention to help busy parents of high school students. As an educator and a parent, she knows first-hand the challenges of getting teens motivated and focused on completing homework or preparing for exams. The Parents' Guide to Studying and Learning provides everything parents need to see positive changes in their students' performance, including examples, scripts, and worksheets to share with their children.And it is a perfect tool for home-schooling parents to supplement their subject matter curricula. Written in an optimistic and encouraging fashion, parents will find The Parents' Guide to Studying and Learning straightforward to use as they facilitate dramatic improvements in their students' success.

This book encapsulates the model and ideas she has developed in the past fifteen years, ideas that are being adopted by an increasing number of faculty with considerable effect. This book is written primarily for faculty but will be equally useful for TAs, tutors, and learning center professionals.

Sandra McGuire's methods can transform students from memorizers and regurgitators to students who begin to thing critically and take responsibility for their own learning. While stressing that there are many ways to teach effectively, and that readers can be flexible in picking and choosing among the strategies she presents, she offers the reader a step-by-step process for delivering the key messages of the book to students in as little as 50 minutes.