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Champions in the classroom /
Little has been written about the problems student-athletes encounter in attempting to balance their sports with the grueling demand for academic success in classrooms. As a resource guide for professionals, Champions in the Classroom offers a model and historical perspective for understanding the c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Mike Candrea
- What I bring to the game
- Dumb jocks or demi-gods
- Introduction
- Part one : Mini history of sports and culture. Sports grows up and goes to college : the birth of intercollegiate sports
- Stars and stripes : games on the corner lot
- Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em : rules of the game
- Birth of the NCAA
- Winning is everything?
- Putting an end to Underwater Basket-Weaving 101
- Formation of new watchdog group : the Knight Commission
- Why join the NCAA?
- Understanding the hurdles : academic success is a challenge
- Show me the money : high school athletics
- Part two : Recipes for developing a winning support program. The right stuff : characteristics of a good support team
- The game changers : ideas for helping high school athletes
- Support team players : role of advisors and counselors
- Special teams : a learning specialist's contribution to student-athlete success
- The game plan : components of the support program
- The coach approach : master plan from a master coach
- The head coaches : tutoring programs
- First things first : the fundamentals for building a game plan
- The head-head coach : directing the tutoring program
- Textbook reading : a tutor's guide
- Tutors, take note : strategies for effective note-taking
- The clock's running : a tutor's guide to managing time
- Reach for the prize : helping athletes with goal-setting
- Keeping up : helping students avoid procrastination
- Sweaty palm syndrome : tutors can calm exam anxiety
- Understanding test formats
- Being critical is good : critical thinking
- Just do it : motivational theories
- Let's check this out : assessments
- The tutors' tool kit : tutoring strategies
- Part three : The playbook : strategies for academic success. Where am I and how did I get here? : Goal setting
- If you play the waiting game you'll lose : ways to ban procrastination
- Keeping your head in the game : textbook reading tips
- Maybe I'll have time next week : guide to time management
- No doodling please : taking good notes
- Don't choke : winning over exam anxiety
- The game plan : preparing for the big exam
- Don't believe everything : critical thinking
- Making fans out of faculty : working with instructors
- Smoothing the bumpy road : handling the challenges of travel
- Life after athletics : out of the uniform, into the suit
- Appendix : The tool box
- About the author.