Breakthrough Learning is …
Education for 21st Century College Students.
The purpose of the website is to help students
- Learn Faster
- Understand More
- Remember Longer
- Make Better Grades
To succeed in college and later in life, we need.
–Healthy Habits and Attitudes
–Social skills
– Study Skills
– Organizational Skills
–Varied Thinking Skills
– Many ways to Remember
– Mental Processing Strategies
All of these are included in this website.
A Bill of Rights for College Students
Read this several times. Place a copy on your wall. Tape a copy in your notebook. Share it on your social network. Email it to your friends. Understanding and claiming your rights can Transform You and Your Education.
All Students have these Five Rights:
1. To be Respected by professors, administration and staff, and by other students… WITHOUT REGARD TO Race, Ethic Background, Religion, Personal Beliefs, Sexual Identity, Family Status/Income, or Learning Differences.
2. To use your Personal Talents and Preferred Learning Styles.
3. To DEFINE a GOOD EDUCATION in terms of your Personal Goals and Interests.
4. To Schedule Time to meet your Personal Goals.
5. To DECIDE what Grades are Important to meet your Personal Goals.
With these rights come RESPONSIBILITIES.
You must respect the rights of others including your family and those you interact with at school.
You must set your own goals. When you use your personal talents and learning styles, when you define a good education, When you schedule your own time,
You must make serious decisions. When you decide what grades are important, you must recognize that you may be accepting poor grades or failing grades in order to get the education you have defined.
You must commit yourself to do the work needed to reach your goals.
Life is a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
— Charles Schultz
Breakthrough Learning is like discovering those mental gears you have but never learned how to use.
To Explore the Website:
You might explore a section that sounds especially interesting.
You might begin with your most pressing needs.
You might check the page with links and read everything like you’d read a book.
You can reach any of the major pages by using the menu below the header. The menu above the header provides other information about the website including Contact Judy where you can leave comments or ask questions. You can also leave comments on Blog pages. You might also visit the Breakthrough Learning page on Facebook and leave comments there.
To get a good overview of the site, go to the next page, the symbolic image of the website. It will help you see how information is organized with details that were not included on the menu. It is followed by a page with Links to all the major pages. The Link page is the ideal page to save to your favorites.
