I Know I Can Make a Better Grade!

Date: April 22, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

This workshop will focus on practical and proven strategies for helping students improve their academic skills from a low or failing grade. Topics in the workshop will include growth mindset, metacognition, test-question review strategies, grade calculation, and tips for making better grades.
By the end of the workshop, students will be able to:

  • describe growth and fixed mindset
  • define metacognition
  • identify test review strategies for developing metacognition
  • calculate the impact of a failing grade on their overall grade

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join:

Your Mind Goes Blank During a Test?

Date: April 15, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

In this workshop, we will discuss the symptoms of test anxiety and tips for overcoming it.

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join:

Learning is Not “One Size Fits All”: Personality and Learning Styles

Date: April 8, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

In this workshop, you will get an understanding of your strengths, your challenges, and what you can do when your style of learning does not match that of your professor.

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join:

A Declassified Test Survival Guide

Date: April 1, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

This workshop will cover a number of strategies that will improve your test taking abilities, including some secrets that most instructors won’t tell you about.

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join:

How to Make Group Projects Less Awful

Date: March 18, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

This workshop will focus on four strategies to support students’ abilities to manage and organize their group projects to reach successful outcomes.

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How to Read a Textbook – It’s not as Hard as You Think

Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

Students who attend this workshop will learn various strategies for tackling textbook reading, including learning to identify and use the various (helpful) features of a textbook and how (and when) to scan readings to maximize learning. 

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The ULTIMATE Graduation Checklist

Date: March 4, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

In this workshop, you will learn the components needed to graduate. Topics in the workshop will include the lower and upper division core, prerequisites, AMAPS, minor requirements, Degree Works, the graduation application, and more.

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join:

“Will This Be on the Test?” – What You Need to Write Down

Date: February 25, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

This workshop will provide tips and strategies to assist students with taking notes. Participants will learn the goal of note taking, notes based on course subjects, what to do before, during and after the lecture. Participants will use the Cornell Note Taking Method during a mock lecture to practice the skills learned.

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join:

Studying: That Thing You Never Did in High School

Date: February 18, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

“I didn’t have to study in high school. Have you ever said that?” Students who attend this workshop will learn study skills to improve their academic performance, the difference between active and passive learning, and a pyramid of learning. Students with a better understanding of what the grade they want requires.

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join:

“The Antidote to Fear is Preparation” – Decreasing Your Test Anxiety

Date: February 11, 2025
Time: 1:40 pm  to  2:30 pm

How many times have you studied for a test and when you sit down to take it your brain goes blank. This is one one of the signs of test anxiety. Learn what others have done to help with test anxiety.

Meeting will be on Zoom. Please click the link below to join: