Overview
This section contains resources for use in helping students understand the differences between high school and college and how these differences require them to shift strategies when approaching their education. Adapting new strategies conducive to college success requires understanding how learning, thinking, and expectations of post-secondary education differ from those of high school.
Objectives
- Identify and describe the differences between modes of learning in high school versus college, and
- Describe how expectations professors have for their students differ from those of high school teachers.
Introductory Questions
- What do you think are the biggest differences between college and high school?
- Which of the differences make you nervous and why?
Suggested Class Sequence(s)
Class sequences are connected topics with activities, worksheets, and readings which take two or more days of class to complete.
Resources and Strategies for College Success
Consider what students have heard about college, consider advice from a college student, discuss the advice and write a response.
Videos
Short videos help tap into multiple modes of learning and can provide a good introduction to or illustration of a topic. See suggested protocols for classroom viewing.
- Getting the Most Out of Class (3 min., watch from :28)
Advice and Tips for succeeding in college classes.
Readings
All readings should be paired with a structure or protocol, especially if any reading will be completed in class.
- “How to Succeed in College: If you only do one thing, do Hint #5”
This reading is paired with the Resources and Strategies for College Success Sequence. - College Culture and Expectations
Understand college terminology and expectations.
Activities
Activities include individual or group tasks that can be completed in less than one class period; some activities may be repeated in a sequence and are re-listed here for ease of access.
- High School versus College: What are the Differences?
Examine the differences between High School and College. - College Appropriate Behavior
Gain an understanding of appropriate behavior in a college setting and strategies to practice self control.
Resources
- Transitional Traps Slides, Baruch College FYS
Explores some differences between HS and College, but requires further explanation and discussion when used in the classroom.
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