Skills for Academic Success

What Is the Skills For Academic Success Course?

Skills for Academic Success is a professional development course designed to help educators teach essential student success skills. Ideal for teachers, counselors, and administrators, this course offers practical tools to create an environment that supports academic achievement and personal growth.

Educators explore strategies for goal-setting, reading comprehension, communication, and research, along with time management for students and effective test-taking strategies. The course also emphasizes technology use, resourcefulness, and critical thinking. By focusing on proven student success skills, participants are better prepared to guide students toward their educational and career goals with confidence and lasting impact.

What Will You Learn? 

The Skills For Academic Success course offers teachers the opportunity to learn how to foster student success skills in their classroom. Those who complete the course will know how to:

• Analyze learning styles and multiple intelligences to identify learning strategies that facilitate academic productivity.
• Evaluate various motivational strategies and how to apply them to academic success.
• Raise self-esteem, including self-acceptance, self-confidence, self-respect, self-love, and unconditional self-worth.
• Complete an educational plan to match academic and career goals.
• Improve personal self-management including stress, time, money, and energy.
• Use learning strategies (such as memory, reading, note taking, test taking and time management) and demonstrate how to use them to foster academic success for students.

What Are the Assignments and Projects?

Students can enroll in the Skills For Academic Success professional development course at any time and take up to one year from the registration date to complete all assignments. Modules within the course include:

• The Master Student
• Time Management Strategies
• Memory Strategies
• Reading Strategies
• Note Taking Strategies 
• Testing Strategies
• Thinking Strategies
• Communicating Strategies

Who Should Enroll in the Skills For Academic Success Course?

The Skills For Academic Success course is designed for 6th-14 th grade teachers.

What Educators Who Took the Skills for Academic Success Course Say

“This course was extremely useful for both my personal and professional life!”

- Educator, New Jersey

“This is a great course for any student! Many skills, for professional and personal life, are refreshed and renewed. Professors give timely, supportive feedback!”

- Educator, North Carolina

Note: Required book must be acquired separately.