Find Your Fit Time On: Planning a Successful Gap Year Visiting Colleges Reflections on Parenting College Success for Students with Learning Challenges Find Your Fit (DVD and PowerPoint®) Find Your Fit is a twenty-minute movie on DVD that features students, counselors, admission officers, and parents talking about • College is more than academics • There is no such thing as the best college;         find the right college for you • The opportunities in lesser-known colleges • Questions for self-discovery • Discovering what you want in a college • Strategies for learning about colleges • What to do when you visit colleges The Find Your Fit PowerPoint® package includes the twenty-minute movie on DVD, plus a presentation that incorporates all of the videotaped interview excerpts in nine sequences, incorporated with text slides for workshop and discussion. The PowerPoint® presentation is an ideal tool for guiding a group of students to begin the process of self-discovery and to learn the tools for researching colleges. The package includes six "Discovery Points" for discussion on both reproducible worksheets and slides. Also included in the package is a 28-page Counselor's Guide with resources for discussions, a transcript of the videos and slides, and reproducible worksheets. Depending on the time available, the presentation can occur in a single forty-minute session, or over several sessions with reflective writing assigned between sessions using the Discovery Point worksheets included on the disc and at the end of the Guide. The Find Your Fit DVD is also available at a significant discount for purchases of ten or more DVDs. The purchase of ten or more DVDs gives you the option to customize the disc art with your business name. Please contact us if you are interested in quantity purchases. Time On: Planning a Successful Gap Year “I learned over my gap year how to be more independent, so that freshman year of college became just another trip for me where I had to adapt to this new place and be on my own. It's a really good way to begin the process of adapting to your new life.” Would you like to work on a trails crew in Waimea Canyon on the island of Kauai this winter? How about studying at Oxford, assisting doctors in Costa Rica, or working with baby baboons in Phalaborwa, South Africa? Taking a "gap year" has been a longstanding tradition in England. In the U.S., increasing numbers of teens are discovering the benefits of taking time out before college to explore new cultures and interests away from home. This 38-minute DVD features college students, their parents, college counselors, and time out specialists discussing how to structure meaningful adventures, how admissions officers view time out, the benefits of time out, surprising discoveries, and parents' perspectives. Visiting Colleges “Visiting colleges gives you information about a million things you might never think of, and that you won't find out any other way.” Most college-bound students and their parents know that visiting college campuses is a key step in the college search process. However, families who have visited a number of campuses say that they wish they had known what to expect before their first visit. Looking back, many students say they wish they had done it differently. This forty-minute video presents students' and parents' best strategies for you to learn what you need to know about a college when you visit. Reflections on Parenting Through the College Admissions Process “In your senior year, everyone is only talking about college - remember this, don't forget that. At one point, my son and I were sitting in the family room and I went to open my mouth and he said, ‘Mom, just don't say college.’” As parents trying to help your child find a college that will be a good fit, you should not have to reinvent the wheel. But college admissions is so different than it was a generation ago. This thirty-minute video provides a wealth of insights and advice from families who want you to have an easier time than they did completing the college admissions process. Interviews with parents, students, and veteran college counselors focus on what they've learned about parenting through the college admissions process. College Success for Students with Learning Challenges “Most people walk around unaware of their strengths and weaknesses. I've got an advantage because I know what I'm good at and I know what I need to work on. I've been shown that it's not a handicap. It can be my best tool in life.” The nation's leading experts will guide you in your search for a college where you can be successful, and explain specific steps for visiting, interviewing, applying, disclosing, and succeeding once you are in college. Successful students will share with you what they have learned about what it takes to thrive in college. Clear explanations are provided on the following key issues: • Differences between high school and college • The range of support available in America's colleges • Assessing how much support you will need • How to evaluate which colleges will meet your needs • When and how to disclose • The role of parents in choosing a college This title is also available in a Professionals and Libraries version with unlimited use for borrowing and instructional purposes. Includes guides to download and print, with nine chapter summaries, Talking Points, Reflection Exercises, transcript of movie, and bibliography.