Take advantage of these valuable tools to assist you in your course. Remember to call your College Survival consultant if you have any questions about acquiring materials or integrating them into your course, or if you have a suggestion you would like to see implemented in the future.
Master Student Course Manual
The Course Manual provides you with further support for planning your course using the philosophy of Becoming a Master Student. It includes additional information about learning styles, lecture ideas, tips for creating lesson plans, and suggestions for teaching to a wide range of students and needs (including racial and ethnic diversity, international and ESL students, students with disabilities, and returning adults). Materials to help you evaluate and measure your course success are also included in the Course Manual.
HM ClassPrep CD-ROM
With chapter-by-chapter resources, lecture ideas, exercises, and quiz answers, the goal of the HM ClassPrep CD is to provide you with instructional resources that you can use in electronic form. Each resource is provided in the file format we think will be most useful to you: Word files for documents you might want to edit, video files for presentation, and PDF files for handouts. Most resources can be customized so they match exactly the way you teach your class. PowerPoint slides to enhance your lecture presentations are available on the CD as well as for download on the Becoming a Master Student Web site.
You can access the files on the HM ClassPrep CD directly through the HM ClassPrep interface. This interface organizes resources for you by chapter or by asset type. Using the HM ClassPrep interface, you can open files in their appropriate applications, use them as they are, or modify them and save them to your hard drive.
New to the HM ClassPrep CD are materials for a pre- and post-assessment for measuring student achievement and retention of materials learned in Becoming a Master Student. Resources will be provided for you to create a retention study on your campus in the same way that Laura Goppold of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been doing it since 2002.
Becoming a Master Student Web site
The new Becoming a Master Student Web site is easily accessible for students and instructors alike. The site is complete with new activities and resources for students, including interactive exercises, discussion groups, Internet resources, and a Master Student Hall of Fame, featuring Master Student Profiles and biographical information about past and present master students.
Resources for instructors on the Becoming a Master Student Web site include sample syllabi, downloadable PowerPoint slides, exercises for use with student success video programs, Internet resources, and discussion groups.
NEW! Power Up! Power Process Series DVD
Show your students how to put the power into Power Processes with this all-new video of eight Power Processes: "Ideas are tools," "Be here now," "Notice your pictures and let them go," "I create it all," "Find a bigger problem," "Employ your word," "Risk being a fool," and "Surrender." This DVD will enhance your lecture by bringing to life the concepts and metaphors in the text, while speaking to the auditory and visual learners in your class.
You may order the Power Up! DVD (free to adopters, closed captioned, ISBN: 0618604200, approx 70 min.) and other videotapes by calling Houghton Mifflin Faculty Services at 800-733-1717.
Additional videos
A new 30-minute video, The Interviewing Process: Strategies for Making the Right Impression, takes students through the interviewing process from start to finish, providing them with strategies for successful interviews. The video covers preparation for the interview with instruction on what to wear, questions and answers to think about, and research on the company. Real-to-life interviewing scenarios on the video provide students with examples of the actual interview process. Also covered is what to do after the interview, including evaluating how it went, seeing what you can learn, and following up.
A financial management video, Money and Finances, discusses strategies to help students gain control of their finances and overcome the money problems they might currently be experiencing. Students will hear advice from financial advisor Ann Egan on income and expenses, will examine the general principles of budgeting and cash flow, and will hear a discussion on financial aid. Through real-world money challenges, including the pitfalls of credit card spending, presented by real students, this video will teach your students to develop the skills of good money management.
Each of the above videos is accompanied by a program overview to guide instructors through its contents, as well as suggestions for classroom activities. These additional aids can be found on this HM ClassPrep CD or on the Becoming a Master Student Web site.
Two free videotapes are available to instructors using Becoming a Master Student. One, for use as a guest speaker on the first day of class, includes a critical reflection exercise and is titled What Do You Want? This videotape, which serves as a course introduction, has a running time of seven minutes. The second tape prepares instructors to administer the Learning Style Inventory (LSI). This videotape has a running time of 23 minutes.
PowerPoint Slides
For each chapter of Becoming a Master Student, PowerPoint slides can be downloaded from the Becoming a Master Student Web site at http://masterstudent.college.hmco.com/instructors . The PowerPoint slides are also available on this HM ClassPrep CD-ROM.
Online Becoming a Master Student course cartridge
Course cartridge materials are available in BlackBoard and WebCT platforms. This allows you to customize your course using a course management system and provides additional materials, including Power Process Case Studies, Discussion Group prompts, and Learning Reflection journals that relate to Case Studies. Visit the Becoming a Master Student Web site for more information and for an interactive demo.
HM Assessment and Portfolio Builder CD-Rom
The HM Assessment and Portfolio Builder CD-ROM (ISBN: 0-618-23283-4) is available for packaging with Becoming a Master Student. This student CD is a personal assessment tool to help students learn more about themselves and prepare for success in college and career. Students will build their portfolio by responding to questions in the modules Personal, Interpersonal, Career, and Community, and by reflecting on their skills, attitudes, values, and behaviors. The Accomplishments Report will summarize the results of students' responses in a format that is perfect for creating a resume or preparing for interviews.
3x5 cards
Provided at no charge to teachers who purchase Becoming a Master Student, 3x5 cards facilitate classroom participation. The text and this HM ClassPrep CD-ROM suggest a variety of uses for 3x5 cards. Instructors and students often report becoming obsessed with them. They find them lurking in closets, hiding under their beds, stuck on their mirrors, pinned to bulletin boards, tucked into pockets, slipped into their notes, marking their places in books, resting next to their telephones, even replacing their address and recipe books. Some instructors ask students to carry 3x5 cards with them for a few days and jot down how they use their time. By doing so, students can monitor what they are doing and the amount of time they spend doing it.
Another way to use 3x5 cards is for attendance. Have students write their names and a question on a 3x5 card. Then have students bring their cards to class each day to hand in as their admission tickets to class. Their questions can then be used to stimulate classroom discussions.
Two-part exercise sheets
Two-part exercise sheets (up to five per book ordered) provide a way to encourage students to participate in class. The final step in any classroom exercise can be for students to write Journal Entries on two-part sheets. If you collect the original, letting students keep a copy for their own use, you can read some of the student discoveries and insights anonymously to the rest of the class. Students are interested in what their peers think. Collecting two-part sheets can also be a convenient way to take attendance.
Three-part quiz sheets
To take a more active role in learning, students can participate in grading their own quizzes by using three-part quiz sheets (up to 10 per book ordered). Here's how the process works. Put the quiz questions on a transparency, blackboard, or separate sheet of paper. Ask students to write their answers on the three-part sheet. After students complete the quiz, have them turn in the original white copy. Now ask students to look up the answers and to correct and grade their own work. (On the test form, you can indicate the number of the text page where each answer can be found and the date of the lecture, so students can refer to their notes.) Students then turn in one of the corrected copies and keep the other one for their own use. Students get immediate feedback, and you save time by not having to grade and return individual quizzes.
