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Your Expanding Intelligence

Jill Wilks, Southern Utah University

ISBN: 978-0-7380-3806-3
Net Price: $23.15

Your Expanding Intelligence is designed to help students, instructors and educational leaders shift learning, thinking and teaching patterns to achieve optimal learning in students of all diversities. Informed by neural science findings and the resulting brain-based pedagogy, the curriculum directs students to establish baseline information about current academic and wellness habits while applying active learning tools to a self-selected course. Developing emotional, intellectual and social intelligence, it enables students to communicate assertively, to learn authentically and to experience the "higher" promises of post-secondary education. For instructors and administrators, Your Expanding Intelligence provides a comprehensive foundation for integrating brain-based pedagogy into syllabus designs and encourages educational leaders to consider brain-based delivery and meaningful, formative assessment designs.

Features

• Exposes and re-directs habits of learned helplessness
• Encourages learned optimism and thinking about thinking
• Activates learners into habits of self-directed academic success
• Establishes baseline information about learning, global thinking, wellness and relational habits
• Provides curriculum and training to instill brain-based pedagogies in learners and teachers
  
  

Topics Include

• Your Learning: Be Curious
• Value General Education to Build an Interdisciplinary Mind
• How Brains Learn and How Schools Teach: Be Active
• Point of View and Assertive Communication: Connect
• Language is Power: Use It
• Guide and Direct Your Attention: Commit
• Study Smarter: Maximize Study Time
• Accept and Direct Your Thinking: Overcome Obstacles
• Fine-Tune or Develop Testing Habits: Earn A and B Grades
• Be True to Yourself: Procrastinate to Succeed
• Monitor and Adjust: Write Your Story
  
  

Additional Resources

• Free on-line teacher's edition available containing activity directions and resources
  
  

About the Author:
Jill Wilks currently directs First-Year Experience and Learning Assistance at Southern Utah University (SUU). She also manages Expanding Intelligence Productions, a consulting and training company.

She began teaching at SUU thirty years ago as adjunct Composition faculty member and a Learning and Language Specialist for a government TRIO program. With few other academic support services available, Jill soon became the expert that diverse learners sought out to discover their personal way of learning. For the past nineteen years, Jill has been training, consulting, and assisting teachers, faculty, students, and organizations. Her focus is primarily in higher education, working with faculty and administrators to improve learning environments, but her consulting work has spanned all age groups and institutional types.

Suggested for:
First-year Experience

For additional information and insight into Professor Jill Wilks' work go to www.expandingintelligence.com.

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