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First Steps

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• People limit their openness to ideas...but not to tools.

• By simply considering the strategies in this course as tools, you’ll be more open to try them.

• As you read the text and listen in class, think of the ideas you experience as tools.

• If they work for you, use them.• If they don’t work, put them on the

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Ideas are Tools

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Use this Master Student Map to ask yourself,

WHY?• To tell the truth about what is

working and what isn’tWHAT?• Power Process: Ideas are tools• Discovery Wheel• Learning Styles• Multiple Intelligences• VAK System• Connecting to Resources• Extracurricular Activities• Career Connection• Master Student Profile: Lalita

Booth

HOW?• to experience the power of

telling the truth• to discover your preferred

learning style• to choose learning strategies

that promote successWHAT IF?• ...you could create new

outcomes by accepting the way you are?

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Key to MasteryKey to Mastery

TRUTH

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The Discovery WheelThe Discovery Wheel

Dave Ellis, authorBecoming A Master Student

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Learning Styles: Two Components

PERCEIVING

PROCESSING

How we take

information in

How we think about that information

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1. What did you discover about yourself?

2. What do you want to keep doing?

3. What do you want to do differently?

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The Discovery Wheel

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• Bodily/Kinesthetic• Visual/Spatial• Mathematical/

Logical• Verbal/Linguistic• Musical/Rhythmic• Intrapersonal• Interpersonal• Naturalist

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Multiple Intelligences

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Learning Styles, VAK or VARK? Learning Styles, VAK or VARK?

Online VARK Assessment

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Connect to Resources on Campus

• Computer Labs – LLCC Logan Hall Flex Center• LLCC Special needs/disability services – Linda Chriswell• LLCC Police Department (non-emergency) 786-2278• LLCC Academic Catalog• LLCC Library

LLCC Library - Sangamon Hall, Upper Level• The Lamp • LLCC Career Development Services • LLCC Financial Aid Office• LLCC Child Development Center• LLCC Fitness Center - Cass Gym• LLCC Academic Advising and Counseling• LLCC Learning Lab – Academic Success Assistance• LLCC Office of Student Life