School to College Transition

Making the transition from school to college is often full of surprises for the unprepared and even can be both exciting and challenging for students. New responsibilities and expectations will be placed on you, essentially from the first day you are on campus.

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There’s a set of skills that’s required in both contexts, college requires that you master more challenging study skills, including understanding and analysing complex academic material, time management, and stress management. In addition, you'll need to learn to become more of an independent student, as your teacher-based support system is usually less available in the higher levels of education.

These skills are not only useful for those students in high school and those who are college bound; in fact, many career paths will expect you to have mastered these skills to be an efficient and productive employee.

Students will learn:

Organizing study materials and knowing schedules for classes.
Completing homework, essays, and projects without reminders or involvement from parents, teachers.
Accepting responsibility and consequences for actions (ex. setting goal, managing time) and learning how to plan for contingencies.
Attending educational planning meetings.
Balancing educational and recreational computer use

Capsule 1: Advanced Study Skills - Getting Organised to Study - Finding Time to Study - Sources of Information for Study - Styles of Writing - Effective Reading - Critical Reading and Reading Strategies - Note-Taking (Note-Taking for Verbal Exchanges and Note-Taking for Reading.) - Revision Skills
Capsule 2: Writing skills - Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation for assignment writing. Gender Neutral Writing and Clichés to Avoid useful.
Capsule 3: Interpersonal Skills - Listening Skills, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Questioning and Types of Questions, Verbal Communication and Effective Speaking.
Capsule 4: Time Management - Pick Your Moment - Don’t Procrastinate, but Do Ask Why You’re Tempted - Don’t Try To Multi-task - Stay Calm and Keep Things In Perspective.
Capsule 5: Personal Skills: Some Tools and Techniques from NLP - Goal Setting, Self-Discipline, Building Confidence and Self-Esteem, Tips for Dealing with Stress, Relaxation Techniques, and Self-Motivation.
Capsule 6: Emotional Intelligence - Self Awareness - Self Regulation - Motivation - Empathy - Social Skills.

30 Hours i.e., 5 day Workshop

Uniqueness in Methodology.
It is an intensive but a flexible program designed to suit participants with varied learning patterns.
Uses sharing and reflecting on experiences of the participants as the major learning tool.
Program have clear metrics for measuring the effectiveness.
Is not designed to generate agreement but reactions
It helps the student’s to take part effectively in various selection procedures adopted by the recruiters.

Real-World Experience Simulation between Facilitator & Participants.
Participants will be led in a Directed Learning Mode, not Just with Facilitator’s one-sided Lectures.
Combination of Presentations and Examples from Facilitator and Interactive / Hands-On Participants’ Exercises with Individual / Group Report-Outs.
Experiential workshop environment where participants will be educated to take risks and make adjustments based on their results from Role-Plays before approaching large real-time projects.

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