Achievement Workshops

Academic Mindset:

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Capture the Topic Essence - Notetaking:

Increase your understanding of lectures and remember more material by developing effective note taking skills. Improve your listening skills. Learn to recognize what information to take down, and not take down. Identify different note-taking styles, and one's own preferred note taking style.

Coping Strategies for Academics:

Learn about five different types of coping mechanisms and five maladaptive coping mechanisms and how to apply those principles to your school success.

Critical Thinking in Academics:

This workshop helps participants to understand the similarities and differences in critical thinking and critical reading. They will identify their own strengths and weaknesses in critical reading, and apply their own critical thinking skills to how they comprehend higher education readings.

Emotional Intelligence in Academics:

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Finals Exam First Aid:

Final exams aren’t just another test. They draw upon your knowledge from the entire semester, and you have to take a bunch of them at once. Depending how your finals are weighted, your final exam grade could even mean the difference between an A and a C on your transcript.

Know Your Audience:

Knowing how to identify your audience and tailor your message accordingly is a fundamental part of effective communication. It is also an essential skill expected of people who attend college. Workshop participants will learn why it is important to tailor their message to their audience, consequences of not tailoring their message, what tailoring the message involves, receive tips for identifying their audience, and steps to take when tailoring the message. Participants will also receive referrals to resources on campus that can help students them tailor an effective message for their audience.

Learning Styles & Strategies:

There are many ways to teach and learn, and several things that affect the learning process. Learning is required throughout life, and a person’s ability to learn will impact his/her academic and career success. Learn about theories related to how people take in, process, and apply new knowledge. Take an assessment to identify your preferred sensory style of receiving new information, and will receive strategies and tips for utilizing those preferred ways of learning.

Locus of Control:

Learn about Locus of Control (LOC) and how it affects your success at achieving your goals. Take a survey to identify where you are on the LOC Scale. Receive tools and tips for increasing your internal LOC.

Memory Techniques:

This workshop provides a comparison and contrast between short-term memory and long-term memory. It also provides an opportunity to review and practice memory techniques.

Organize Your Semester:

Understanding the connection between life organization skills and academic success by adopting a set of tools and techniques, along with a self-care mindset, can ease the stress and challenges students face in higher education

Pass Quizzes & Tests:

Learn effective test strategies, develop coping strategies for managing test anxiety, and identify your own strengths and weaknesses and improve your and develop regarding test preparation skills.

Remember What You Read:

Improve your ability to understand, remember, and recall what you learn while reading classroom texts. Discover tools, techniques, tips and other resources for making your reading efforts more productive and efficient.

Success in Everyday Life:

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Time Management & Online Learning:

This workshop provides several resources, in a variety of formats, that help students manage their time so you can complete your online classes

Create a LinkedIn Profile:

In Profile Introduction to LinkedIn, its purpose and use. Receive information and resources to help you know the basics of setting up this professional social media profile. The 2-hour hands-on lab section will provide students with an opportunity to create their LinkedIn profile and receive real-time feedback. Must bring a current copy of your resume to the hands-on lab workshop.

Find Technology Help:

Having trouble working with technology-related issues? Technology problems can include: hardware issues (laptops, tablets, hotspots, etc.), Mt. SAC resources (website, portal, email, etc.). online learning software (Canvas, Zoom, etc.), productivity software (Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Google Suite: Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, etc.), Internet/Cloud software (web browsers, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.) Social media (LinkedIn, etc.) discipline-specific software (Statview, Autocad, Adobe Creative Cloud Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), and/or accessibility-related software (Otter, Screen Reader, etc.). There are several types of help available to students. This workshop will introduce students to options available to help students succeed in their online life and school. Help options include: Online resources, workshops, ‘how to’ videos, individualized tech support, campus computer labs, and free/discount purchase.

Link Your Emails:

Ensure you receive important information quickly from Mt. SAC by linking your email accounts to receive all your messages. The campus, your instructors, Police & Campus Safety Office, Student Services offices, and any special programs you may belong to, will use your official campus email account to contact you with important information. Learn how to forward your official campus email account to your preferred personal email account so you don’t miss important messages. Also learn how to sign up for emergency alerts from the Police & Campus Safety Office to make sure you immediately know what is going on.

Microsoft Office vs Google Suite:

This workshop provides a comparison and contrast between the two primary software 'bundle' packages used by Mt. SAC faculty, students and staff, to allow individuals to decide which package they prefer to use. It also provides more detailed information about both packages to help individuals become familiar with the bundled package programs of their choice.

Navigating Canvas:

Are you taking an online or hybrid class? Is your instructor requiring you to use Canvas to submit homework? This workshop will introduce students the basics of Canvas and offer resources to help you succeed.

Navigating Mt. SAC Online:

Learn how to navigate Mt. SAC’s technology to find information you need to survive and thrive in school. Discover how the main website, online catalog, portal and Mountie app can help you get information, help, and how to solve problems.

Presentation Tools (Using Microsoft PowerPoint and Other Presentation Software):

Presentation software programs are easy-to-use and allow a presenter to professionally and visually present their ideas. This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of presentation software such as PowerPoint, offer tips for creating professional presentations, options for accessing these software programs, and resources for getting help with using it.

Spreadsheet Tools (Using Microsoft Excel and Other Spreadsheet Programs):

Make keeping track of large amounts of numerical and non-numerical information efficient and professional looking by using MS Excel and other popular spreadsheet software programs. Receive tips to increase your efficiency. Learn about on- and off-campus resources to address your spreadsheet needs.

Writing Tools (Using Microsoft Word and Other Word Processing Programs):

Make writing your research papers easier by learning how to automatically format your documents to MLA, APA or other format standards in MS Word and other popular word processing software programs. Receive tips to increase your efficiency. Learn about on- and off-campus resources to address your word processing needs.