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From Grades to
Grads: Teaching Strategies to Motivate
Today’s First-Year Seminar Students (Back
by Popular Demand!)
Original Date: March 10, 2008
According to The New York Times, only 28 percent of today’s U.S. adult population holds a college degree. Instructors know that becoming truly educated is a meaningful and irrevocable investment students make in their own futures. Yet in today’s multitasking, high-speed environment, many students see college as simply earning grades, checking off requirements, and working their way through “the system.” Experts warn that increasingly today’s students are extrinsically, rather than intrinsically, motivated. For them, college is about performing, rather than about learning, and they see their college experience as a product rather than a process. Join this eSeminar with author Constance Staley and gain insights and strategies on the ins and outs of motivation to use with your own first-year seminar students.
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Meta-what? Metacognition, Reading and Studying, and Today’s First-Year Students
Original Date: February 21, 2008
By and large, today’s first-year students aren’t keen on reading. Reading is stationary and solitary; they’re on the move and multitask. Information is everywhere, but are screen shots, sound bites, and video clips enough? As students look for faster, more efficient ways to “check off” classes, how can we help them become intentional, integrative learners? This E-seminar with one of today’s key leaders in the first-year seminar movement will focus on these questions and suggest practical strategies for your classroom.
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From Grades to
Grads: Teaching Strategies to Motivate
Today’s First-Year Seminar Students
Original Date: November 29, 2007
According to The
New York Times, only 28 percent of today’s
U.S. adult population holds a college degree.
Instructors know that becoming truly educated
is a meaningful and irrevocable investment students
make in their own futures. Yet in today’s
multitasking, high-speed environment, many students
see college as simply earning grades, checking
off requirements, and working their way through
“the system.” Experts warn that increasingly
today’s students are extrinsically, rather
than intrinsically, motivated. For them, college
is about performing, rather than about learning,
and they see their college experience as a product
rather than a process. Join this eSeminar with
author Connie Staley and gain insights and strategies
on the ins and outs of motivation to use with
your own First-Year Seminar students.
To listen to the audio and view
the PowerPoint slides for this event, Click Here.
How Students
Learn versus How Faculty Teach: Using VARK to
Bridge the Gap
Original Date: April 17, 2007
Learning is what First-Year Seminars
are all about. But how much do we as instructors
really know about learning? Do we use that knowledge
to the classroom? Do students learn because of
us, or in spite of us? This session will focus
on the essentials of the learning process, fascinating
new research on student learning, and practical
ideas to weave these innovations into your First-Year
Seminar course. To gain as much as possible from
this session, please take the free, short, online
VARK Learning Styles Questionnaire at this
link and log on to this WebEx session with
your own results in hand.
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the PowerPoints for this event, Click Here.
And They’re, Like...”WOW!”...and
We’re, Like...”WHOA!”...What
Today’s Students Need and How First-Year
Seminars Can Help Them Get It
Original Date:
October 3, 2006
In many ways, today’s first-year
students are unlike their predecessors. Recent
literature uses such disturbing descriptions as
psychologically fragile, overconfident, and unmotivated.
Some say many students are not prepared for college
academically, psychologically, or culturally.
This session will discuss strategies to unlock
first-year students’ motivation and unleash
creative ways to connect in the classroom.
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the PowerPoint slides for this event, Click Here.
Motivating First-Year
Seminar Students: Dynamite Ideas!
Motivation-it's the academic watchword of the
21st century. Read about it in scholarly journals.
Scan presentation titles at national conferences.
Eavesdrop in faculty hallways: "Why aren't
college students more motivated these days?"
Join this eSeminar and learn about motivational
strategies that work!
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slides for this event,Click Here
“Rules of Engagement”: Getting Past the Attitude and Engaging “Whatever…”
Students in Learning
The rules have changed. Today’s first-year
students present new challenges for faculty—
challenges that require new ways of teaching.
How can coursework compete with movies, television,
computer games, music, and “hanging out”
with friends? What if school isn’t a top
priority? This e-seminar with one of today’s
foremost experts on engaging first-year students
will explore understanding the new “Rules
of Engagement,” unlocking students’
intrinsic motivation, and unleashing our creativity
as teachers.
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the PowerPoint slides for this event, Click Here
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