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Best Practices For Tutoring And Learning Centers
Webinar Series
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Overview of Webinar Series
Learning and tutoring centers have the potential to become the nucleus of initiatives that focus the entire institution on improving learning. This webinar series will assist institutions of higher education as they improve their tutoring programs and practices to better serve today’s students.
Join us to explore specific strategies tutoring professionals can use to best you’re your students succeed academically. Learn how to best organize and market your center, as well as how to build a 5-week, high-impact training program for tutors. Discover how to develop an action plan for expanding the learning center’s sphere of influence on campus. Finally, providing online tutoring support remains a growing challenge for student support services in higher education. The last webinar in the series will help the learning professional understand all facets of what to consider, both technological and pedagogical, in delivering online tutoring services to college students.
Webinar 1
Using Best Practices To Improve Tutorial Programs And Services
Colleges and universities have long incorporated tutoring in their retention efforts. However, it is often up to academic support professionals to develop best practices and make their programs visible on campus. This webinar will assist college tutoring coordinators and professionals in improving their programs and tutoring practices and will explore specific strategies tutoring professionals can use to best help students succeed academically.
Presenter: Johanna Dvorak, Ph.D.
Webinar 2
A Tutor Training Playbook: A Game Plan From An Award-Winning Learning Assistance Center
How would you like the benefit of twenty-eight years of experience in developing tutor training? Imagine avoiding all those mistakes. Envision replicating great examples. Dream up new ideas. Here is the playbook for beginning, developing, or improving your tutor training.
As one professor noted, no tutor is better than a mediocre tutor! The quality of training will either prevent or foster mediocrity in a tutor. When training is at its best, tutors serve as agents of retention. The training we invest in them significantly impacts not only student learning but persistence.
Presenter: M.E. McWilliams
Webinar 3
Improve Student Learning: Maximizing The Impact Of Learning Centers
In the mid 1990’s the focus of academic institutions began shifting from what is taught by the faculty to what is learned by the students. This new focus on learning resulted in renewed interest in establishing campus learning centers. Learning centers have the potential to become the nucleus of initiatives that focus the entire institution on improving learning. However, to realize this potential, learning center leaders must identify stakeholders and partners, establish a campus wide presence for the learning center, and implement effective strategies for expanding the learning center's sphere of influence. This interactive workshop will provide strategies to enable the learning center to achieve significant campus-wide impact. Discussion will include specific strategies that will help you improve student learning and successfully move your learning center to a leadership position on campus.
Presenter: Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire
Webinar 4
Providing Online Tutoring Options: Buy, Build, or Collaborate?
Providing online tutoring support remains a growing challenge for student support services in higher education. With limited budgets and maxed out resources, learning center professionals and faculty must have a clear understanding of the options available to buy tutoring services, to create their own online tutoring programs, or to join or create an online tutoring collaboration.
All three options offer their own distinct advantages and disadvantages. This presentation will address the considerations academic professionals want to assess as they determine how they can best deliver tutoring support to an increasingly diverse and widely distributed student population given the limitations of funding and available staffing.
Presenter: Carolyn Rogers
Who should attend?
- Post-secondary tutoring program or learning center managers: Colleges, Universities, Community Colleges, and Technical Colleges
- Post-secondary learning center professionals with an interest in tutoring programs and training
- Tutor leaders, tutor trainers, directors, administrators
- Dean of Student Services/Affairs
- Disabilities Services
- Retention Specialist
- Developmental Education
- First Year Experience
- Learning Centers
- Online Learning
- Tutoring Programs
- Writing Centers
- Anyone interested in improving student persistence and success
Who are the speakers?
Johanna Dvorak, Ph.D. directs a comprehensive academic support services program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) which includes peer tutoring, Supplemental Instruction, online tutoring, and academic coaching.
Dr. Dvorak has served as the President of the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) in 2004 and was a mentor and presenter at NCLCA’s Institute for Learning Center Professionals (July 2009).
M.E. McWilliams directs an award winning learning center at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. The Academic Assistance and Resource Center (AARC) has earned Distinguished Certification from the National Association of Developmental Education and the Star Award from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for closing the gaps in higher education. Last year the AARC reported 170 peer tutors and 63,000 visits.
Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is Professor of Chemistry and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Learning, Teaching and Retention at Louisiana State University. She is the former director of LSU’s Center for Academic Success, the winner of the 2004 National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning Center Award. She served as a mentor at the 2011 and 2007 NCLCA Summer Institutes and at the 2006 Winter Institute. Most recently, in 2010, she was awarded Level 4 Lifetime Learning Center Leadership Certification.
Carolyn Rogers is the Director of Student Support Services for the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. She received her M.S. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Hartford and has over 20 years experience in program planning, development and implementation in healthcare, industry and higher education. At CTDLC, she has led the development of eTutoring.org, a collaborative service which supports thousands of students across 3 consortia, covering 10 states and over 90 institutions of higher education, providing synchronous and asynchronous tutoring sessions in writing, math, science, and more. Currently, she is working on a new multi-institution, collaborative project: CTDLCâ™’s FIPSE sponsored online Adult Success Center.
What is the cost?
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What is a webinar?
A webinar is an interactive seminar conducted over the web and is typically 1.5 to 2 hours long.
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What is the process?
Webinar participants log into the webinar site with a username and password sent via email. Participants can print handouts, as we send you a link to the presentation via email approximately 2 days prior to the event. Once logged in, you are able to see the PowerPoint slides, ask questions and make comments via chat, very similar to instant messaging.
- Is there a recording available? Approximately one week after the conclusion of the webinar, you will receive a link to the recording which is yours for one year and can be forwarded to all faculty and staff at your institution for viewing anytime, anywhere.
- What equipment is required? An Internet connection, computer speakers and LCD projector if a large group is present.
What are the benefits of a webinar?
- Cost-Effective: No travel required. Webinars are an innovative way to provide your entire faculty and staff with a variety of professional development opportunities for one low price! The more you train - the more you save, as the registration fee is per institution, not per person.
- Easy: You will receive a detailed list of instructions via email a week prior to the event. And if you run into any problems, we're always here to help.
- Interactive: Chat online with presenters, participate in online polling questions, discuss specific situations with your colleagues, and receive implementation strategies for your campus (included when appropriate). You can even join a discussion group to continue the discussion with the presenter and webinar participants. Join discussion groups at https://owa014.msoutlookonline.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.weeklyinnovations.org/.
- Practical: Our training sessions focus on the most critical and relevant issues facing educators today. Our primary goal is to provide participants with the information, training and skills necessary to immediately implement positive change at their institutions.
- Top-Notch Speakers: Our speakers are subject matter experts and recognized in their field.
- Value Added: When you purchase a webinar, you also receive access to the recording, which is good for one year. You can use it wherever and as often as you want, offering consistent training to your faculty and staff.
How will we use these trainings?
- Flexible Training:
- Live: Promote and attend a live webinar and debrief immediately following.
- Hybrid: Distribute a recording to all faculty and staff at the beginning of each month and plan a discussion session at the end of the month to determine how you will implement the strategies presented.
- On-Demand: Distribute a recording to faculty and staff so they can watch anytime, anywhere. Contact Innovative Educators at val@ieinfo.org, and we will create an online discussion group specifically for your institution at no extra charge.
- In-Service Training: Plan an in-service around a live webinar or schedule a day and time to show the recording in a lecture hall or large conference room and invite faculty and staff to attend - brainstorm and discuss implications for your college.
- Staff Recognition: Develop a program around the webinar with monthly themes and recognize the staff members that implement the best idea related to the theme.
- Team-Building: Utilize these webinars to develop cross-functional and cross-discipline teams to foster collegiality.
- New Employee Training: Include these webinars and the free recording as part of your new employee training program to ensure consistency.
- Implementation and Follow-Up: Use the guide and evaluation materials provided by Innovative Educators to plan, implement, and track your progress.
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