Feldman, Power Learning and Your Life, Fourth Canadian Edition is designed to help students succeed in their academic journey and beyond. Following the principles of the P.O.W.E.R learning system (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink), students will learn how to apply this process in their everyday lives.
Many new updates are featured in the new edition, including chapters devoted to stress management, financial management, and content about technology and online learning. Extensive updates have also been made to the chapter about career planning to ensure students are armed with the latest tools and strategies to succeed.
CHAPTER 1 P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Becoming a Successful Student
CHAPTER 2 Making the Most of Your Time
CHAPTER 3 Reading and Remembering
CHAPTER 4 Taking Notes
CHAPTER 5 Taking Tests
CHAPTER 6 Leveraging Technology and Developing Information Competency
CHAPTER 7 Writing and Presenting
CHAPTER 8 Making Decisions and Solving Problems
CHAPTER 9 Collaborating with Others
CHAPTER 10 Managing Stress
CHAPTER 11 Managing Money
CHAPTER 12 Planning Your Career
The Fourth Canadian edition of Feldman is available in Connect. Connect is an award-winning digital teaching and learning solution designed to enhance your teaching style. It allows you to deliver, personalize and measure your course with ease. Plus, Connect can integrate with your LMS system to provide a seamless experience for you and your students.
Student Friendly: Feldman 4ce was designed to capture students’ attention and engage them with the content. Images, charts, photos and infographics are featured throughout to showcase the diversity of students as well as the latest in technological aids and devices.
P.O.W.E.R Learning Framework for Success: Each chapter applies the principles of the P.O.W.E.R. system (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink) so students can clearly see how easy it is to incorporate this process into their everyday routine.
Reinforced Learning: Following their introduction in the first chapter, concepts like multiple intelligences, values, learning styles, and Striving Styles™ are reinforced throughout the book.
Skill-Building Opportunities: Each chapter offers numerous exercises and activities to reinforce key concepts and relate the material to students’ other courses.
Connection of Academic and Career Success: Each chapter links the material to the world of work and demonstrates how the chapter strategies are related to career choices and success.
Development of Critical Thinking Skills: Throughout the resource, students are encouraged to assess their skills, reflect on their progress, and think critically about related experiences. Cases in each chapter provide an opportunity for students to consider what they have learned and use critical thinking skills to respond to related questions.
SmartBook 2.0: Within Connect, students have access to SmartBook, an adaptive learning and reading tool that personalizes content to each student’s unique needs. Because SmartBook creates the ideal study path for each student, every minute they spend studying is the most effective minute possible. SmartBook highlights the key topics students should focus on, and supplies links to additional learning materials like slideshows, videos and more so they can enhance their understanding of key learning objectives.
SmartBook is an adaptive teaching and learning experience available within Connect, designed to create a customized learning path for every student. By identifying gaps in knowledge, SmartBook helps students study more efficiently by providing additional reinforcement where needed. With detailed insights on student performance, instructors can identify areas of weakness and strength among course topics to better inform their teaching approach and create a more engaging classroom.
