Description
Gwen Braun and Leanne Frost, who serve as both administrators and teachers in the Academic Support Center at Montana State University-Billings, will share the successes and challenges experienced during the last five years as the developmental education program (DevEd) expanded. The presentation will promote collaboration between the DevEd program and other departments (housing, security, financial aid, registrar, disciplinary action committee, Disability Support Services, SOS/TRIO, and academic departments) to meet the expressed and demonstrated needs of underprepared first-year students. The presenter will also share assessment data collected over the five-year period and show how it has been used to predict needs and validate changes.
Quote from our speaker
“Underprepared first-year students cannot succeed alone; neither can the developmental education program that serves them. Collaboration and assessment are essential for the academic success and retention of at-risk students.” ~ Gwen Braun
Objectives
- Participants will learn a step-by-step approach to building a campus network of support for underprepared first-year students.
- Using a simple matrix, participants will analyze their own programs for ways to improve retention with no-cost/low-cost techniques, including identifying student needs and collaborative partners.
- Participants will recognize the importance of quantitative assessment to enhance their programs, improve student services, add validity to programs and recommendations, and celebrate successes.
Who Should Attend?
Who Are the Speakers?
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Gwen Braun, M.Ed. Educational Technology
Montana State University-Billings
Program Director |
A career educator and technology expert, Gwendolyn K. Braun’s teaching experience includes elementary school, and math in junior high and high school before joining postsecondary education. She has presented regionally and nationally for NADE, CRLA, and AMATYC, and serves as a regional consultant for ACT, Inc. As Director of the Academic Support Center and Developmental Education at Montana State University-Billings, she was instrumental in bringing the developmental math and writing courses together into one program. She holds a Master of Education in Educational Technology from MSU-Billings and a Bachelor’s of Science in Elementary Education and Secondary Mathematics from Lincoln University. She attended the Kellogg Institute to earn certification as a Developmental Education Specialist and recently received the Staff Recognition Award for Excellence in Administration at Montana State University-Billings.
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Leanne Frost, M.Ed. Reading
Montana State University-Billings
Program Asst. Director |
A national presenter and soon-to-be published author on using quantitative assessment to improve student success, Leanne H. Frost has spent the past two years collecting and analyzing data on the university’s transitional students. Her findings of a correlation between incoming reading performance and retention led her to develop a reading instruction course for Fall Semester 2006. She also collects data and manages a database of more than 1,800 at-risk students, identifying trends and unmet student needs, to improve developmental education. She currently teaches developmental reading and developmental writing.
How do these on-demand trainings work?
1. We will send you a link to the recording, which is good indefinitely.
2. You can distribute this link to your entire faculty and staff via email.
3. They can watch this presentation from any computer that has Internet and speakers.
How would I use it?
You can distribute the links any way you like. Here are some ideas:
- Distribute all links to faculty and staff so they can watch these presentations anytime, anywhere and have a discussion board for each topic
- Distribute one link to all faculty and staff at the beginning of each month during the academic year and plan a discussion session at the end of each month for faculty and staff to get together and plan how they will implement the strategies presented
- Plan a day and time to show each webinar in a large classroom and invite all faculty and staff to attend - debrief immediately following the presentation
- Develop a professional development program around these topics with monthly themes and recognize the staff member that implements the best idea related to the theme
- Utilize these topics to develop cross functional and cross discipline teams to foster collegiality
- Utilize these presentations as part of your new employee training program
