PARTS 1 AND 2 STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND SOFT SKILLS

Student Book MyEnglishLab Strategies for academic success and soft skills,
Parts 1 and 2 end with an extended
Apply Your Skills section that delivered via online videos, help increase students’
functions as a diagnostic or confidence and ability to cope with the challenges
formative assessment. of academic study and college culture. Study skills
include how to talk to professors during office hours
and time management techniques.
This longer reading passage
allows students to apply skills
practiced in the unit.
TEACHER SUPPORT
Each of the three strands is supported with:
A closer reading gives students
the opportunity to read the passage • Comprehensive downloadable teaching notes in MyEnglishLab that detail key points for all of
again and answer critical thinking the specialized, academic content in addition to tips and suggestions for how to teach skills and
questions. strategies.
• An easy-to-use online learning management system offering a flexible gradebook and tools for
monitoring student progress.
Critical thinking activities ask • Essential tools, such as audio and video scripts and course planners, to help in lesson planning
learners to engage at a deep and follow-up.
level with the content, using
information from the reading
to address specific real-world
applications. ASSESSMENT HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO ASSESS YOUR STUDENT?
Visually thinking sections provide University Success provides a I WOULD LIKE TO
an opportunity for students to package of assessments that can see how much see how well my provide a provide provide a
analyze and create or expand upon be used as precourse diagnostics, the students students have test at the end a quiz midterm or final
charts, maps, and other visuals. know learned a skill of a part
midcourse assessments, and
final summative assessments. GO TO
The flexible nature of these
assessments allows teachers to
choose which assessments will be APPLY APPLY APPLY VOCABULARY TERM
most appropriate at various stages YOUR SKILLS YOUR SKILLS YOUR SKILLS ASSESSMENTS ASSESSMENTS
PART 3
Student Book of the program. These assessments Student Student Student
Students read an authentic essay MyEnglishLab Book Book Book
are embedded in the student
written by a professor working book and are available online in
in a specific STEAM field. The
MyEnglishLab.
essays are presented in sections, TERM TERM
to allow for clarifications and PART 3 PART 3 ASSESSMENTS ASSESSMENTS
comprehension checks.
Student Student
Book Book
Students use critical thinking
skills to consider a situation
related to the essay and record
their thoughts. SELF-
ASSESSMENTS

A related extended reading,

written by the same professor, gives
students another opportunity to
practice their reading skills and
check comprehension. TERM
ASSESSMENTS
As a final project, students prepare
and participate in a presentation and
group discussion.

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