Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond, 4/e
Sharon K. Ferrett
ISBN: 007829682x Copyright year: 2003
Key Features
NEW! Internet Connection links text content to Peak Performance Web site.
NEW! Journal Entry writing exercises in the introductory Visualization features help students to focus and review.
NEW! Performance Strategies highlight the connection between school and work.
NEW! Career in Focus provides information about highlighted careers, including related majors and job market outlook.
NEW! Tech for Success features focus on using technology, computers, and the Internet for school and career success.
Personal Performance Notebook exercises help students read, reflect, and think critically, as well as apply chapter concepts to life.
Peak Performer Profiles focus on noted people in the areas of business, education, the arts, or public service. These Peak Performers have overcome obstacles and challenges to become successful. These profiles illustrate how a positive attitude and perseverance are important for success.
Career Development Portfolios provide a process to determine ways to best show your skills, competencies, accomplishments, and work. The portfolios can be used to create and update résumés, prepare for interviews, and for career advancement. They can also help explore possible majors and careers.
Chapter Review and Applications include a list of Performance Strategies, Review Questions, Re-Visualizations, and Case Studies.
Distance Education platforms include PageOut, WebCT, and BlackBoard.
Student and Instructor Web Site (peak4.glencoe.com) provides strategies for success, links to relevant Web sites, teaching strategies, FAQs from the author, and much more.
Instructor Annotated Edition includes teaching tips and hands-on activities, transparency masters for each lesson, topics for class discussion, and margin notes that focus on key concepts.
Instructor Resource Manual with CD-ROM contains solutions to activities in the student text, additional activities, case study summaries and answers, transparency masters, course syllabi, and chapter-specific teaching suggestions. The CD-ROM includes PowerPoint® presentations and ExamView® Pro test generator.
Student Retention Kit is a valuable resource for instructors to help implement a student success program and to use PEAK PERFORMANCE. The kit includes four full-color posters, student questionnaire, and six booklets:
Facilitator's Guide
Involving the Faculty Strategies
Capitalizing on Your School's Graduates
Tools for Time Management *
Establishing Peer Support *
Developing a Career Portfolio *
* These booklets are also available separately.
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