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Washington Times
Professor
Bernie
Over
the last three years, Professor Bernie Gaidosch has been
counseling parents, teaching them how to motivate their
children to become better, more-competitive students in
school with the "Professor's Secrets."
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Minneapolis
Pioneer Press
Ultimate
Study Guide Teaches Students How To Succeed
On
the first day of his college class, the professor always
asks his students the same four questions:
How
many of you are here to fail? Who wants to get top marks?
Who knows what skills that will take? How many want to know?
It's the last question that pushes every student's hand
into the air.
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The
Washington Times
Professor
Shares Secrets For Top Grades
Students arrive
at colleges and universities with hardly any idea of what's
expected of them and are shocked to find that they lack
the writing and study skills to get top grades, a Canadian
professor said.
"There's
a crisis in high schools, colleges and universities,"
said Bernie Gaidosch, who teaches English at George Brown
College in Toronto. "Students are literally blindsided
by what they don't know. The results are frustration, fear,
panic and cheating."
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The
Globe & Mail
Universities
Trying To Cope With Students Lacking Basics
The
lack of basic writing and math skills among incoming students
has become so dire that one Canadian university has resorted
to "academic spies " -- two Sherlock Holmes types
who pore over stacks of test scores.
The
University of Ottawa has taken the extraordinary step of
hiring these two full-time statisticians who have the unique
job of weeding out students at risk of academic disaster
early in their school year.
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Ft.
Worth Star-Telegram
How
To Make Studying Pay Off
For students, learning how to study is as important as learning
what they're studying.
"We
don't teach our kids how to write and how to learn,"
says Bernie Gaidosch, a college professor and author of
The Professor's Secrets: Breaking the Silence.
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Regina
Leader-Post
Prof Helps Kids Succeed
How
you study is as important as what you study, insists a Toronto
college professor.
"If
you haven't learned how to learn, you're lost before you
even start," points out Bernie Gaidosch, an English
prof who teaches writing and study skills at George Brown
College, and is author of The Professor's Secrets success-in-school
program.
"If
students and parents think that 'the little red schoolhouse'
is doing its job -- it isn't!," Gaidosch says.
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Green
Bay Gazette
Professor
Teaches Students How To Study
Psssst,
Professor Bernie Gaidosch has a secret and he’s willing
to share it.
Over
the years, he has learned a few things about succeeding
in school...
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The
Mississauga News
The
Education System: Still Missing the Mark(s)
If
your car's engine isn't working, getting a new paint job
really won't help.
If students aren't taught skills crucial to their success,
simply throwing money at the system isn't necessarily the
answer.
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The
Sarasota Herald Tribune
The
Professor Checks In: Writing and Hearing Sleigh Bells in
Toronto
The
Professor is on the phone. He is telling me about the latest
addition to his line of products designed to lift college
students from the doldrums of mediocrity.
It's
a video that accompanies his books about writing essays
and term papers and getting good grades on exams and tests.
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The
Lethbridge Herald
Professor
Says Students Lack Skills In Writing
As
a college-level English instructor, Bernie Gaidosch is continually
astounded by the growing number of students he sees who
can't write essays, have poor English skills and have never
been taught fundamentals like how to study.
Professor
Bernie, as he is called, soon found he was able to help
these students fill in their knowledge gaps and succeed,
often in short order.
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The
Presse
“I
can’t do it!”
“School is useless!”
“I’ll never get good marks!”
So
many parents hear these disturbing comments from their kids
and don’t know what to do. Let’s face it—attitude
and motivation go a long way to getting top marks in school.
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The
Catholic Review
Successful
Study Habits
Every
semester, students will engage in long night study sessions,
review index cards filled with notes and labor over practice
problems – all in the quest for better grades.
Bernie
Gaidosch, a professor in English and study skills at George
Brown College in Toronto, believes he can help.
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Louisville
Courier-Journal
The
Art of Writing
Professor
Bernie, as he likes to be known, preaches the gospel of
good prose with evangelistic zeal.
But
he is not a fiery person and certainly not a mean one. Which
is why, though he is talking on a telephone 500 miles north
in Toronto, you can feel him wince when he tells a story
that perfectly, if brutally, illustrates his central dogma:
Today's kids can't write, and they are suffering in school
and in the workplace because of it.
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The
San Diego Union Tribune
Talk
Still Cheap Compared With Value Of Good Writing
Professor
Bernie Gaidosch thinks we talk too much. More to the point,
we don't write enough..."This is a huge problem, and
very few people seem to be paying attention to it,"
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The
Sarasota Herald Tribune
Technology
Hinders College-bound Students From Learning How To Write
Rich
Brooks
Bernie
Gaidosch likes to tell the story of a college freshman who
erupted in a rage when he failed an essay exam.
"It's
a writing crisis," says Gaidosch, who teaches writing
and study skills at George Brown College in Toronto.
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The
Liberal
Education
Lifelong Pursuit For 'Professor Bernie'
Mitchell
Brown
Like any
lifelong lover of literature, Bernie Gaidosch has more than
a few stories of his own to share.
For
instance, there was that one time a student swore at him
in front of the class, claiming it was the professor's fault
he failed an assignment.
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The
Press
Parents
Can Help Their Children Succeed In School
Dean
Laurence
The sad reality is many of our kids are fighting an uphill
battle when it comes to succeeding in school. Today’s
students face classrooms that are bursting at the seams
with teachers who can spare only so much time per student....
Now students have a formula they can follow.
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The
National Post
Public
Schools Trip Up On The Three Rs
Laura
Fowlie
Bernie
Gaidosch recalls the time he asked a third-year student
to summarize her essay in her own words and watched helplessly
as she dissolved into tears.... More frustrated than ever
by basic writing assignments, his students are cheating,
dropping out and suffering breakdowns in greater numbers.
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The
Toronto Sun
English
prof's book teaches students to write great essays without
cheating
Jerry
Gladman
It's somewhat
ironic yet fitting that a guy who was teased as a child
because of his poor English and accent has come up with
a workable solution for a major problem in our high schools,
colleges and universities -- cheating.
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The
Standard
