Innovative Educators

Teach Students How to Learn: Metacognition is the Key!

Registration Fee: $345.00

Description

Teach Students How to Learn: Metacognition is the Key!
Available On-Demand

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Overview

This webinar is designed to help faculty, learning center professionals, and student affairs personnel develop strategies to help students become independent, self-directed learners. A discussion of the characteristics of today’s students will help participants understand why many students lack effective learning strategies when they enroll in college, and how simple it is to teach them strategies for successful learning.

Reflection and think-pair-share activities will introduce participants to cognitive science research based methods that can be used to improve teaching and learning. The session will provide a variety of strategies that have proven successful in helping students experience meaningful, transferable learning.

Objectives

· Characteristics of many of today’s learners

o Emphasis on performance goals rather than learning goals

o Few time management and learning skills

· What the cognitive science research indicates about how people learn

o Learning is a process that can be taught

o There are different levels of learning

o Self-directed, independent learners can be developed

o Metacognition is the key to lasting, meaningful learning

· Metacognitive Learning Strategies that Work

o Bloom’s Taxonomy

o Study Cycle with Intense Study Sessions

· The Impact of Student Mindset on Learning

o Fixed intelligence mindset vs Growth Intelligence Mindset

o Transforming students’ mindsets

· Strategies for Teaching Unprepared Students

Who Should Attend?

Faculty interested in increasing student learning
Administrators interested in increasing retention and graduation rates
Learning Support Staff interested in developing new strategies for helping students
Student Affairs Professionals interested in increasing student success

Who is the speaker?

Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching, and Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. She is the former director of LSU’s nationally recognized Center for Academic Success. Prior to joining LSU in August, 1999, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she served as Acting Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry. While at Cornell she received the highly coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award.

Dr. McGuire has been teaching chemistry and working in the area of learning assistance for the past 35 years, and has previously held academic appointments at The State University of New York, Brockport; The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Alabama A & M University in Huntsville. The basic techniques and strategies she has presented at over 75 institutions on Teaching Students How to Learn have contributed to the increased success of numerous students from diverse economic backgrounds, developmental levels, and with widely varying learning styles.

Dr. McGuire has been the recipient of numerous awards. Two of her most recent awards are attaining Level 4 lifetime learning center leadership certification from the National College Learning Center Association in 2010 and receiving the 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, awarded by President Bush in a White House Oval Office Ceremony.

Dr. McGuire received her B.S. degree, magna cum laude, from Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA; her master’s degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and her Ph.D. in Chemical Education from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she received the Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Professional Promise.

Registration Information

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How does it work?

1. We email you a link and password that will give you access to the On-Demand Training presentations
2. You distribute the link and password to your entire faculty and staff via email
3. You will have access to these links for one full year

What are the benefits of On-Demand Trainings?

Accessible: Email the trainings to your entire faculty and staff, so they can take advantage of training opportunities anytime, anywhere. They can watch in the comfort of their office, their home or while traveling.
Cost-Effective: No travel required. 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. The registration fee is per institution, not per person.
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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.
Flexible: When you purchase an On-Demand Training, it is yours for one full year. You can use it whenever and as often as you want during the year, offering consistent training to all of your hires.
Satisfaction Guaranteed: Our On-Demand Trainings are 100% guaranteed. Thus, there is no risk. If you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money in full.

How will we use these trainings?

Hybrid Professional Development: Distribute an On-Demand Training to 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.
Online Faculty and Staff Learning Communities: Distribute On-Demand Trainings 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 a day and time to show an On-Demand Training in a lecture hall or large conference room and invite faculty and staff to attend a debrief immediately following the presentation.
Staff Recognition: Develop a program around the On-Demand Trainings with monthly themes and recognize the staff members that implement the best idea related to the theme.
Team-Building: Utilize these On-Demand Trainings to develop cross-functional and cross-discipline teams to foster collegiality.
New Employee Training: Include these trainings 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.

If you have any questions, please contact Val at val@ieinfo.org or call 303-775-6004 for more information.