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By Megan Dorsey & Erin TempestEducation Kids & Family

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May 15, 2017 160: Why Parents Should Resist Scheduling Extra Events in May
May is a crazy month for parents and students!
Families often have the habit of thinking that May will be an easy month because school is winding down.
Actually, May is worse than December in terms of scheduling a multitude of activities, including:

* AP exams
* May SAT’s
* Practice tests prepping for June SAT tests
* School testing
* Final exams
* Prom
* Banquets and Award Ceremonies,
* and more!

Listen in as Megan deconstructs the myth that things will slow down before summer, and gives some tips to tame your schedule during the final slide to summer.

24 min
May 15, 2017 160: Why Parents Should Resist Scheduling Extra Events in May - The College Prep Podcast
May is a crazy month for parents and students! Families often have the habit of thinking that May will be an easy month because school is winding down. Actually, May is worse than December in terms of scheduling a multitude of […]
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24 min
May 08, 2017 159: Perfection Paralysis and How to Get Unstuck When Writing
Do writing assignments take you longer than necessary because you often feel stuck?
Join Gretchen as she shares an interesting tool she created with a client to help him with his perfection paralysis.
Specifically, she and Megan discuss:

* What perfection paralysis looks like in struggling writers
* Why it’s important to learn to notice when you’re stuck
* What the top signs are that let you know you’re stuck and spinning your wheels
* Why asking yourself questions is a great way to start getting unstuck
* Six specific questions to ask yourself to start cranking out work instead of staring unproductively at the computer

20 min
May 08, 2017 159: Perfection Paralysis and How to Get Unstuck When Writing - The College Prep Podcast
Do writing assignments take you longer than necessary because you often feel stuck? Join Gretchen as she shares an interesting tool she created with a client to help him with his perfection paralysis. Specifically, she and Megan discuss: What perfection […]
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20 min
May 01, 2017 158: 5 Secrets to Taking Multiple Choice Tests Well
Too many students struggle with multiple choice tests.
Often, this difficulty is not that they don’t know the material but rather because they haven’t learned how to take those tests well.
Listen in as Megan provides her top five tips so you stop losing points on tests. Specifically, she discusses habits for how to:

* pay attention to the design of the test
* make sure you’re reading the details in both questions and answers
* change your focus from finding the right answer to eliminating the wrong answer
* troubleshoot when you can’t actually write on the exam
* compare choices once you’ve narrowed them down,
* “work backward” to choose the correct answer, and
* discern what test-taking advice is ineffective and should be ignored

36 min
May 01, 2017 158: 5 Secrets to Taking Multiple Choice Tests Well - The College Prep Podcast
Too many students struggle with multiple choice tests. Often, this difficulty is not that they don’t know the material but rather because they haven’t learned how to take those tests well. Listen in as Megan provides her top five tips so you […]
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36 min
April 24, 2017 157: Tips from a Professor About How to Rock College
Listen in to a college professor talk about what skills make for a successful college student!
Special guest Tina Kruse shares what she’s learned from 15 years teaching freshman seminars at a small liberal arts college, including:

What is a Freshman Seminar, and why might you want to look for a college that has them?

What do the most successful first-year students do? Conversely, what are common problems that first-year students encounter?

What can students do while in high school to prep for what college is “really like”? How can parents, teachers, coaches help support that?

What do leadership experiences in high school get you (besides an impressive addition to your college application!)?

* And more!

Note: During this episode, Tina refers to the following resource: High Impact Educational Practices. Check it out!
Tina Kruse is an Educational Psychologist (Ph.D.) with 15 years of experience teaching undergraduates. Her research is on the benefits of youth leadership experiences, with a forthcoming book on this topic (Oxford University Press, 2018). In addition to her long-term teaching and advising at a liberal arts college (Macalester College in St. Paul MN), she also offers private, one-on-one academic coaching to students ranging from high-school to graduate school. Recently she’s been charged with starting a campus-wide plan to support her college’s students to integrate better their learning settings–helping them connect the classroom efforts with their off-campus experiences such as internships and study abroad. You can find out more about Tina’s work at www.tinakruse.com.
Please Note: In this podcast recording Tina Kruse is representing her work as described at www.tinakruse.com and is not representing Macalester College.
37 min
April 24, 2017 157: Tips from a Professor About How to Rock College - The College Prep Podcast
Listen in to a college professor talk about what skills make for a successful college student! Special guest Tina Kruse shares what she’s learned from 15 years teaching freshman seminars at a small liberal arts college, including: What is a […]
The post 157: Tips from a Professor About How to Rock College appeared first on The College Prep Podcast.
37 min
April 17, 2017 156: Community Colleges, National Merit Scholarships, and Bad Teachers
You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers! Join us as we discuss community colleges versus big name schools, getting national merit scholarships, and dealing with bad teachers.
Here are the questions Megan and Gretchen tackle on today’s Q&A show:

* COMMUNITY COLLEGE VS. BIG NAME SCHOOL. Our son has been accepted to Engineering programs at Baylor, A&M Galveston and Ole Miss. However, his first choice, UT on Friday confirmed Cap program only which would be UTSA and transfer only guaranteed into Liberal Arts. As you may recall, the full college experience including D1 sports, fraternities, etc was all on his list. However, he is now talking to two other young men from his high school about Austin Community College. We’re reaching out to several people for their thoughts and expertise. In your opinion what is his best option? From Jackie.

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3. NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS. I’m working with a small private school in my area and wanted your input on how we can best support our students for next year’s National Merit scholarships. I analyzed the results of the 10th-grade class PSAT results and this is what I found: – 41 students took the test – 2 students tied a score of 1300 – 3 students scored higher with a 1310, 1340 and 1400 points. I want to “target” some of these students and suggest they work to possibly qualify for National Merit. What scores do you think might have a chance?
4. WHAT TO DO ABOUT A BAD TEACHER: My English teacher legit spends the majority of class talking about things that aren’t relevant. (I.E. She’ll talk about her son in the Navy instead of whatever book we’re reading at the time). The other day we were given the assignment to write a thematic essay based on the movie “I am David,” and she decided to give us some free time to work on it on our own. Well, a few kids got done early and began talking amongst themselves, and my teacher completely flipped out! She made the whole class start over! Those of us who hadn’t finished, but had gotten a good chunk done had to turn it in and re-write it with a different thesis and everything. This teacher has been teaching at my school for more years than I care to count and has received a couple “teacher of the year” awards – though I can’t imagine why. I get all A’s and B’s, but I have a solid D in her class – as does everyone else I’ve asked. I’ve tried talking to my school counselor about it – as have a few others – but whenever the administrators come in to monitor the class the teacher will give us an assignment to work on while she talks to them about their families and such. I got a letter home the other day from the principal getting angry at me for “disrupting the class” when I refused to listen to her about her son’s week aboard the SS I-couldn’t-care-if-I-tried for the umpteenth time and tried to work on my essay instead. What am I supposed to do?
30 min
April 17, 2017 156: Community Colleges, National Merit Scholarships, and Bad Teachers - The College Prep Podcast
You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers! Join us as we discuss community colleges versus big name schools, getting national merit scholarships, and dealing with bad teachers. Here are the questions Megan and Gretchen tackle on today’s Q&A show: COMMUNITY COLLEGE […]
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30 min

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