Keys to Success Series

 Carol at Middlesex Community College

Course Resources for Faculty

Resources to simplify your life and engage your students. These additional resources are available for use, talk to your local representative for more information.
Custom Publishing
For a truly tailored solution that fosters campus connections and increases retention, talk with us about custom publishing.
Pearson Custom Publishing — We are the largest custom provider for print and media shaped to your course’s needs. Please visit us at www.pearsoncustom.com to learn more.
Book Specific
Online Faculty Training

Hone your teaching skills and build community with other instructors with the first-of-its-kind Keys Online Faculty Training Course with author Joyce Bishop!

Online Instructor Faculty Training — Join the Keys author online faculty training sessions, available to all adopters through Course Compass, at your convenience. Ask questions. Share ideas. Troubleshoot. Be part of this collaborative community—learn what other Keys adopters are doing; be able to share exercises, syllabi, and teaching strategies; and observe an actual online student success course taught by Joyce Bishop. Request your unique pass code from your local representative.

Visit www.keysfacultyonline.com/ to learn more »

Online Resources
Easy access to online, book-specific teaching support is now just a click away!

Instructor Resource Center — Register. Redeem. Login. Three easy steps that open the door to a variety of print and media resources in downloadable, digital format, available to instructors exclusively through the Prentice Hall IRC. Visit www.prenhall.com for additional information.

Online Instructor Resources include: Online Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, PowerPoints, Faculty Development Workshops, OneKey Course Cartridge, and more.

OneKey
All you and your students need to succeed. Powered by Blackboard, WebCT, or Course Compass, OneKey is Prentice Hall’s course management resource for instructors and students. This platform provides access to online teaching and learning tools—24 hours a day, 7 days a week. OneKey means all your resources are in one place, with one passcode for maximum convenience, simplicity, and success.
Visit www.prenhall.com/onekey, and scroll through the gallery option to Student Success for additional information. Note the videos housed on our OneKey sites are now available on DVD.
Research Resources
Reinforce strong research skills, encourage library use, and combat plagiarism with this tool.
Prentice Hall’s Research Navigator — Designed to help students with the research process—from identifying a topic to editing the final draft. It also demonstrates how to make time at the campus library more productive. RN includes 4 databases of credible and reliable source material to get your research process started: The EBSCO/Content Select, New York Times, Link Library, and the Financial Times. Visit www.researchnavigator.com for additional information.

This powerful, integrated course management resource for Keys to Success contains the following:

  • Online instructor’s resources: Computerized Test Bank, PowerPoints, Instructor’s Manual and more
  • Pearson’s Research Navigator™
  • Text-specific Companion Website
  • Prentice Hall Planner for Student Success
  • Student Reflection Journal for Student Success
  • Ten Ways to Fight Hate
  • Student Success SuperSite (publisher-provided course website)
  • Strategies for Success CD
  • Understanding Plagiarism
  • Supplemental Videos: Students will be engaged by the video clips on Technology, Math and Science, Managing Money and Career, Learning Styles and Self-Awareness, Study Skills, and Peer Advice, which reinforce the course content.
Video Resources
Choose from a wide range of video resources for the classroom!
Prentice Hall Reference Library: Study Skills Pack, contains all of the following videos:
Prentice Hall Reference Library: Life Skills Pack, contains all of the following videos:
Prentice Hall Reference Library: Career Skills Pack, contains all of the following videos:
Prentice Hall Full Reference Library Pack, contains the complete study skills, life skills, and career skills videos on DVD.
OneKey Video Pack, contains Student Advice, Study Skills, Learning Styles, and Self-Awareness, Skills for the 21st Century—Math, Science, and Technology, and Managing Money and Careers videos on DVD.
Faculty Development Video Resources
Faculty Development Series Workshops
  • Carter: Faculty Development Workshop DVD
  • Faculty Development Workshop on integrating Successful Intelligence
Current Issues Videos
Assessment
Through partnership opportunities, we offer a variety of assessment options.
LASSI — The LASSI is a 10-scale, 80-item assessment of students’ awareness about and use of learning and study strategies. Addressing skill, will, and self-regulation, the focus is on both covert and overt thoughts, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that relate to successful learning and that can be altered through educational interventions. Available in two formats: Paper, 0-13-172315-4, or Online, 0-13-172316-2 (Access Card). Noel Levitz/RMS—This retention tool measures Academic Motivation, General Coping Ability, Receptivity to Support Services, PLUS Social Motivation. It helps identify at-risk students, the areas with which they struggle, and their receptiveness to support. Available in Paper or Online formats, as well as Short and Long versions. PAPER Long Form A: 0-13- 072258-8; PAPER Short Form B: 0-13-079193-8; Online Forms AB&C: 0-13-098158-3.
Robbins Self Assessment Library — This compilation teaches students to create a portfolio of skills. S.A.L. is a self-contained, interactive library of 49 behavioral questionnaires that help students discover new ideas about themselves, their attitudes, and their personal strengths and weaknesses. Available in Paper, 0-13-173861-5; CD-Rom, 0-13-221793-7; and Online, 0-13-243165-3, (Access Card) formats.
Readiness for Education at a Distance Indicator (READI)—READI is a Web-based tool that assesses the overall likelihood for online learning success. READI generates an immediate score and a diagnostic interpretation of results, including recommendations for successful participation in online courses and potential remediation sources. Please visit www.readi.info for additional information, 0-13-188967-2.
Diversity
Teaching tolerance and discussing diversity with your students can be challenging.
Responding to Hate at School — Published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Teaching Tolerance handbook is a step-by-step, easy-to-use guide designed to help administrators, counselors, and teachers react promptly and efficiently whenever hate, bias, and prejudice strike.
Free Phone Assistance  
If you need help thinking through your syllabus, class plans and strategy, or would like guidance on how to use this book, any of its supplements, or technology, please call author Carol Carter toll-free at 877-737-8510

Keys to Success Update

Keys to Success partners

Meet the authors

Carol J. Carter

Carol J. Carter

Carol is the founder of LifeBound, a student success and transition company, which also trains teachers in academic coaching skills .

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Joyce Bishop

Joyce Bishop

Joyce holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has won numerous teaching awards. She is in charge of Developmental Studies at Golden West College in Southern California.

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Sarah Lyman Kravits

Sarah Lyman Kravits

Sarah, mother of three, has served as Program Director for LifeSkills, INC., and has run workshops in student success for over 15 years.

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