How to Successfully Transition Students into College: From Traps to Triumph

This book challenges traditional notions about why successful high school graduates struggle in college and provides guidance on how to overcome obstacles. It reveals that the successes students had in high school can work against them in college, highlighting hidden structural, functional, and cognitive traps that undermine academic work. The book offers practical advice and teaching methods to empower students and revolutionize institutions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 04 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Challenging traditional notions about why successful high school graduates struggle in college, this comprehensive book sheds light on the obstacles that hinder a seamless transition and provides clear guidance on how to overcome them. Drawing from extensive research and real-life stories of educators and students across diverse institutions, Geddes unveils a critical truth: it is the successes students achieved in high school that work against them in college, rather than their failures. This book delves into the hidden structural, functional, and cognitive traps that undermine students' academic work, strain teacher-student relationships, and impose artificial limits on their potential. Armed with powerful formulas for academic success, it offers practical tools for guiding students toward exceptional performance and provides teaching methods for creating an educational environment conducive to success. Packed with invaluable advice, actionable steps, and inspiring success stories, this landmark book serves as a vital roadmap for college educators seeking to empower their students and revolutionize their institutions.

Weight: 298g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781642672893