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The Millennial Promise: 40 Tips From The Mindset List Kindle Edition

by Ron Nief (Author), Charles Westerberg (Author), Tom McBride (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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In The Millennial Promise the authors of the famed Mindset List offer 40 practical tips for better Millennial education. They give educators, counselors, and administrators a solid understanding of Millennial attitudes--from politics to economics to gender--and show how specific Millennial emotions and tech savvy are the real keys to Millennial learning. Included here are creative ideas for promoting intellectual joy--and even using such Millennials habits as tweets and texting to help them acquire analytical skills that will last a lifetime. The Millennial Promise shows educators how to give the new generation academic gifts that will keep on giving.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01JAJQ8DO
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 28, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 284 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 100 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1535397977
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Sean B Bina
5.0 out of 5 stars millennials are digital natives and grew up during a second great recession) that can contribute to our understanding of college
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2016
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Most commentaries about generations are subtle ways to elevate one generation over another. This is not that. Instead, it identifies a number of key elements (e.g., millennials are digital natives and grew up during a second great recession) that can contribute to our understanding of college students and recent graduates today. Whether you are an educator, parent, or work in the business world with Millennials, you can use this to guide successful interactions. I particularly like the middle section about how to approach assignments and having empathy for the younger generation. For example, I have found the same thing as the writers: Making practical work more algorithmic is a highly effective way to help Millennials succeed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Super Insightful
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2017
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Strongly recommend for anyone who runs a business or interacts with Millennials. The insights are truly unique and simple to digest.
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George F. Simons
5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks for the sage on the page!
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2017
The more than usual number of academic lecture invitations this fall sent me scrambling for a bit more cultural savvy about the current crop of undergraduate students. Luckily, I stumbled upon this very cogent “mindset” approach which helped me enormously to shape and bring to life an audience-appropriate syllabus.

Admittedly skeptical about attempts to define contemporary cultural phenomena, I find the question of generational differences is a bugbear in this search for understanding. It is my "search for understanding" that is perhaps the crux of the problem. It is too early to understand the culture of a blooming generation, but one can meaningfully engage with it. The benefit of this short book is that it offers plentiful handles for engagement in the form of insightful tips to test against the realities one encounters in the classroom and outside of it. It is a stimulus to creativity and imagination and, having read the book, I feel myself challenged, but more confident, as well as excited by the challenge.

Certainly, we are living in new times, rapidly changing times, and cannot expect that life will be the same for the new generation as it was for us, despite the fact that we all face similar tasks in life, namely growing up, working, developing a career path, pursuing and creating relationships engaging with other generations, and in general searching for satisfaction and fulfillment. What any specific generation may be about and how it goes about it will probably be only known in retrospect, so mindset seems a much more appropriate and less static term than culture. Though hindsight is 20/20, it doesn't help us much in the present moment. While the book emerges from and speaks to the academic context, its relationship to this generation on the job and elsewhere should not be missed.

There are no certainties in these pages, but there is a solid and stimulating a set of clues to explore, test, and reflect upon as we choose the everyday curriculum, academic or social together. Suffice it to say that I will both explore and try to be creative with the insights that the authors offer and, hopefully, contribute to the well-being, education, and future of the generations placed in my hands. Though it is not a new one, the main metaphor to remember for making the most of the 40 tips presented here, according the authors, is that of the teacher or trainer becoming the "guide on the side" in place of the role of "sage on the stage" The first belongs to my previous educational experience and probably to my subtle bias about myself. Will that be difficult? We shall see, but I suspect the threat of change will be less daunting as I use what I have learned from the “sage on the page” that this book provides.
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Slash T. Phillips
5.0 out of 5 stars Great education information on Millennials from three Pros!
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2017
Millennials are creative, but they are less tolerant of what we shall call, for lack of a better term “assignment ambivalence”.

--From the book:
“The Millennial Promise: 40 Tips from the Mindset List”

If you are a fan of the Beloit College ‘Mindset List’; the annual listing of what incoming Millennial freshman students have seen, heard, or experienced in history and culture since their birth, there is a further treat on line that may whet your appetite in between each list. List creators Tom McBride& Ron Nief have gotten together to release a slim, spunky little book entitled: “The Millennial Promise: 40 Tips from the Mindset List” (2016, 100 pages, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform).

The writing is tight, the subjects are great for discussion among educators at the high school and college levels, and this trio has a lot of background research seemingly at their fingertips. It’s small enough for backpack or office drawer. “The Millennial Promise” is a book that serves an unintended purpose: It encourages teachers and professors to examine their methods, with the aim of improving them.

On the other side of the coin, it outlines more than a few things that Millennials could stand to improve, in a non-offensive way. Charles Westerberg also contributes to the work, with a tightly and powerfully written introduction offering a peek into the world of Millennials and higher education. I’ve a feeling that more than a few college administrators and counselors will want to get their hands on this work in order to ‘blow the dust’ off of their people skills, in order to take advantage of this new wave of students making their way through the classrooms, as well as the road of life.
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Christopher J. Cocoma
5.0 out of 5 stars Mindset List Sages Master Millennial Riddle
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016
Who exactly are these Millennials? And what makes them tick? From the authors of the popular and annually anticipated Mindset List comes this sharp primer of insight on our most abundant and sometimes misunderstood generational cohort. With their shared Beloit College pedigree, Messrs. McBride, Nief and Westerberg have distilled 40 interesting tidbits of guidance for educators of all persuasions (e.g., parents, coaches, hiring personnel, business leaders, etc.) as to what motivates, perplexes and ultimately defines the Millennial worldview. Through experiential anecdotes and a conversational pace of witty writing, The Millennial Promise: 40 Tips From the Mindset List will release from the interested reader an understanding sigh of relief for knowing better what to expect from the tech-savvy, socially networked and guardedly optimistic Millennials. If you've enjoyed reading the Mindset List over the years, then you'll certainly appreciate this important contribution from a very talented trio of educators.
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