Academic Enhancement (ASAR)
The Academic Skills Academy Review (ASAR) and the Alkebulan Self Enhancement Teachings (ASET) are curricula that are designed to facilitate the academic success of students who matriculate at colleges and university. ASAR is divided into a 7-part series of workshops that are to provide students with a framework for optimal academic attainment. The orientation into the ASAR/ASET series for Afrikan students explores the ancient and contemporary Afrikan contribution education. We travel to Kemit and discuss the concept of educe(re), the holy of holies, and the 7 liberating arts. This area emphasis the process of freeing the mind from the basal fetters that may hold one bound to operate solely on the bases of the instincts of the lower self. Sankore and Timbuctu are discussed as the focus turns toward Afrikan Americans in academia and the establishment of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the Afrikan Diaspora. The desire here is to reveal to Afrikan students the struggles and triumphs that accompany education and HBCUs. We discuss the sacredness of the grounds that most HBCUs occupy because many of them exist on the site of churches, plantations, and enslaved Afrikan burial grounds. Additionally, we look at ways that students can organize and honor those who have gone before them to make their current academic experience possible. Whereas we do not purport to guarantee academic success, we do understand that success is granted to those who prepare for it today and who know themselves. These topics serve as preparation for success.
The topics are as follows:
- How to Adjustment to the Collegiate Experience
- Classroom Success (Active Listening/note-taking)
- Being Profound through Setting and Achieving Goals
- How to Procrastinate Later: Seven Steps in Time Management
- Taking Test and Winning: Test-taking Skills/Strategies
- Overcoming Test-anxiety
- Relax and Be more Powerful: Stress Management tips
How to Adjustment to the Collegiate Experience
Attending college continually demands that one grows and adjusts in order to accommodate new experiences such as being responsible for basic needs, dating/relationships, roommate(s), joining organizations, student leadership roles, being away from home, returning home to family, etc. This workshop is designed to help students, across all classifications, adjust to life’s situations both academically and personally.
Classroom Success: Active listening & Note-taking
Academics as well as many aspects of one’s life demands that one be able to listen well and record accurately what one has listened to. This workshop discusses methods on how to engage in power lecture listening as well as ways to good note-taking skills. Success in the classroom often predicts success in life.
Being Profound Setting and Achieving Goals
This workshop presents steps that one can apply in setting powerful goals. The workshop covers self-assessment and goals, freeing the mind to achieve powerful goals, and reaching that goal and beyond.
Seven Ways to Procrastinate Later: Time Management or Management of Time:
Success in life requires one to be able to manage ones time wisely. There are wise ways of getting things done during the day and then there is “otherwise.” This workshop explores some wise methods for organizing ones minutes, hours, days and eternity. Additionally, steps to postpone procrastination are discussed.
Taking Tests and Winning: Test-taking Skills
A major portion of ones academic career requires one to study and take test. This workshop illustrates strategies one can apply in taking multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer and essay tests.
Overcoming Test-anxiety
“I just blanked out when saw the test”. Persons who experience test performance challenges commonly use this statement. Methods to relax, refocus, and remember information for tests is discussed in this workshop.
Relax and Be More Powerful: Stress Management Tips
There are two types of stress; distress and eustress. Distress is destructive stress and can render one’s life chaotic. When one’s life becomes chaotic and disorganized, then one will began to have negative physiological concerns because distress is a full anatomical experience. Eustress, however, is good stress and fortifies optimal performance by enhancing one’s level of awareness and anatomical functioning. This form of stress facilitates one in living a healthy life. In this workshop one will explore ways to eradicate distress and enhance eustress.
