Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond, Fourth Edition, offers an instruction package that presents essential student success concepts and topics. This unique and integrated program provides a viable foundation of affirmations, visualizations, and strategies that will help students experience success in school and ultimately in the workplace.
All the program’s components work together to ensure that the students understand and can apply what they have learned. All components build on the same instructional paradigm—a clear useful presentation of concepts, followed by examples, applications, discussion, and reinforcement. FeaturesChapter Concepts
Each chapter opens with Chapter Concepts, an at-a-glance study aid that quickly maps out the chapter content. Visualization & Journal Entry
Visualizations also introduce the chapter concepts. They are geared toward students’ self-improvement and help students envision their success.
The new Journal Entry activity is tied with the Visualization exercise. It is a simple journal writing activity to help students focus on the visualization activity. Ask your students to bring in a notebook of their own to use for writing all journal entries.Learning Objectives
Clear and concise objectives at the beginning of each chapter aid students in identifying and mastering each chapter’s key concepts. Peak Progress
In every chapter, Peak Progress features demonstrate the themes and concepts of each chapter and include helpful suggestions for students’ peak progress. Personal Performance Notebook
Personal Performance Notebook exercises help students read, reflect, and think critically. Students are asked to observe, evaluate, and apply chapter concepts to their lives. Performance Strategies
These strategies are found throughout the chapters as signposts in the margins. They correlate with the running text and offer students quick tips and strategies for success.Words to Succeed
These quotes provide students with insight and words of encouragement that are tied with the chapter’s content. Internet Connection
This new feature provides exercises that expand the chapter’s topics, linking them to using the Internet and the book’s Web site. Tech for Success
This feature focuses on using technology, computers, and the Internet. It shows students how school assignments, their personal lives, and the world of work connect with technology. Career in Focus
This feature provides real-world career profiles that illustrate examples of the relationship between the study skills necessary for college success and the skills students will need for career success. Work situations that directly call on chapter skills are highlighted so that students can see the interrelationships. Job category, related majors, and job market outlook are also noted.Peak Performer Profile
Each chapter presents a noted person in the area of business, education, the arts, or public service. These peak performers have overcome obstacles and challenges to become successful. Students will see that having a positive attitude and perseverance are important for success.Review Questions
This new feature includes five basic questions to help students review the chapter’s main concepts.Re-visualization
This new feature has students revisit the Visualization/Journal Entry activity from the chapter opener page and asks them to apply what they have learned in the chapter.Case Studies
The case studies are examples of students in college that deal with real-life situations that reflect the chapter concepts. This feature stresses that the same issues which students deal with in college also exist in the workplace; the same skills and strategies that apply to the classroom can be adapted to their jobs. Chapter Application Worksheets
These practical worksheets help students apply what they have learned to other classes and situations. These templates provide hands-on application. Career Development Portfolio
The Career Development Portfolio is a process that shows the best of each student’s skills, competencies, accomplishments, and work. When completed, the portfolio will contain sections on self-analysis, an inventory of skills and competencies, goals, educational and career planning, an inventory of interests, cover letters, résumés, and samples of work. Students can use the portfolio to create and update their résumés, to help them prepare for an interview, and for career advancement. The portfolio will give them the opportunity to assess their strengths, set goals, and possess an organized system of important documents. It will also help students explore possible majors and careers. Additional Instructional ResourcesInstructor Resource Manual
The Instructor Resource Manual (IRM) contains a variety of instruction aids that will assist the instructor in helping students to understand the concepts of success and apply them to both the classroom and real-life situations. The IRM contains:
Instructor resource material
Chapter notes and answers
Solutions to the activities that appear in the student text
Additional Activities
Chapter tests and answer keys
Transparency masters
Outline for 1-day orientation
Course outlines for six-, twelve-, or fifteen-week student success programs
Teaching tips for each of the fourteen chapters in the student text
Assessment forms
PowerPoint® instructions
ExamView® Pro Testbank instructions
Student Planner
This viable organizational tool is available as a standalone or with the student text. The planner provides:
Daily Tips for success
Time-management techniques
A daily calendar
Contact information
Student Retention Kit
The Student Retention Kit gives instructors and administrators the tools to incorporate Peak Performance strategies into every course and to retain students as they complete their programs of study using success principles that last a lifetime. The following six booklets and components are included in this compact kit:
6 booklets:
Facilitator's Guide
Tools for Time Management
Establishing Peer Support Groups
Developing a Career Portfolio
Involving the Faculty Strategy
Capitalizing on Your School's Graduates
Student Questionnaire
Student Planner
4 four-color posters for the classroom
Peak Web Site Flyer
Instructor Training Video
This video offers:
Methodology for first-time instructors in a student success program.
An introduction of the student success program for presentation to all the school’s faculty.
Ice-breaker topics to open class discussion for chapter concepts.
