1st Edition

How to Successfully Transition Students into College From Traps to Triumph

By Leonard Geddes Copyright 2024
196 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Challenging traditional notions about why successful high school graduates struggle in college, this book sheds light on the obstacles that hinder a seamless transition and provides clear guidance on how to overcome them. Drawing from research and real-life stories of educators and students across a variety of institutions, Geddes illuminates a critical truth: it’s the successes students had in... Read more

1. Introduction

Section I: Structural Traps

2. Workspace Trap

3. Division of Labor Trap

4. Locus of Learning Trap 

Section II: Functional Traps 

5. The 80/20 Paradigm Trap

6. Pedagogical Beliefs Trap

7. The Power of Academic Vision 

Section III: Cognitive Traps 

8. The Academic Myopia Trap

9. Far Transfer Trap

10. Pseudowork Cognitive Trap

Epilogue

Biography

Leonard Geddes is the founder of The LearnWell Projects, an academic success organization devoted to making learning more visible, manageable, and effective. A highly regarded higher education consultant and strategist with 20+ years’ experience, he is also the former Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Learning Commons at Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA.