Improve Your Grades By Changing Your Brain

Course Description

If you are having trouble studying or if you are not confident enough in your scholarly skills, this is the course for you! Within this course, you will learn how to conquer mental barriers and improve your grades. This course will teach you how to stop bad habits that you may not know you have. It’ll also teach you many good habits and strategies to improve your grades, it’s all in your mind! This course contains lessons that tackle problems that most students deal with. Lessons that will help you focus on school, time management, and mental tips necessary to succeed.  “Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades” talks about the mental barriers that must be broken to succeed academically. The course talks about the complexity of your mind and how it connects with your grades. The evidence within this course is supported by the book “Change your Brain, Change Your Grades” by Daniel G. Amen. The book talks about how changing the way you think affects all things in life, not just grades, how mental health affects your brain, different brain types, bad habits, solutions.

Learning Objectives/Outcomes:

• Students will learn how to be comfortable with their work
• Students will learn how to drop at least 3 bad habits;

Ex: Studying at the last minute, 

• Students will learn how to pick up 3 positive academic habits; 

Ex: Studying ahead of time, communicate with your teacher, create goals/plans

• Students will learn to manage their time in a more efficient way

The evidence within this course is supported by the book “Change your Brain, Change Your Grades” by Daniel G. Amen.

Course Developed by Marcel Martin