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Bridging to eTexts
Description:
Discussion will focus on .pdfs, eTexts, eBooks, online OER (OpenEducation Resources) digital books. What are faculty and studentexperiences with eTexts? What if students could have their textbooksthe first day of class. Handouts will be provided as well as an onlineinteractive wiki site of resources.
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Building Bridges from Research Idea to Research Study: Forming a Problem Statement
Description:
You’ve got an idea for a research study – so, what’s the next step? Wewill discuss a specific kind of problem statement, how to construct it,and how it is useful in articulating research goals and approaches whenplanning a study. We will work through the problem statement process,and if you bring your research ideas we will workshop those as problemstatements as well. Geared toward early career scholars and graduatestudents and anyone else interested.
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Empowering Student Leadership in Academic Support Programs
Description:
As many professionals in academic support across the nation struggleto serve the demands of a growing student body with limitedprofessional staff members, our table will examine the definite prosand potential pitfalls of empowering student leadership in learningassistance center programs. Engage in a discussion geared towardgetting participants to think outside of the traditional supervisory box interms of undergraduate and graduate student responsibilities,particularly within the framework of a Supplemental Instruction ortutoring program.
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Finding your Academic Voice
Description:
Being a fairly new academic can be very challenging, as most new rolescome with hidden curriculum and expectations. Whether you are agraduate student, practitioner new to the research arena, or a juniorfaculty member, come engage in a discussion related to finding yourvoice in new settings, navigating new academic roles, networking, andpublishing. I will provide a list of journal outlets intended for newvoices, graduate students, and emerging scholars. In addition, we willdiscuss networking strategies, department collaborations, and"practice-to-research" ideas.
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How to get the most out of a mentoring relationship?
Description:
In this discussion, we will examine current mentorship research,including relationship cultivation, personal development, andprofessional growth. This discussion will be an opportunity to appreciatethe concepts surrounding mentorship, its importance to individuals andit's vitality in the further development of individuals and industry acrossall fields and across campuses.
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Intersecting Writing Programs: Fostering Positive RelationshipsAcross WAC, Writing Centers, and First-Year Writing
Description:
Come prepared to share your stories of successful writing partnershipson your campus. You are welcome to ask questions and brainstormstrategies to bring back to your campus and classrooms. Ultimately,leave our time together with a stronger sense of how programs canwork together to strengthen campus-wide writing initiatives.
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Reaching Across the Quad: Campus Collaboration Ideas for CollegeReading and Learning Professionals
Description:
Busy schedules and campus silos can sometimes make our work lonelyand isolating. However, there are countless opportunities—andneeds—for college reading and learning professionals to collaborateand educate others across campus. During lunch, we will share possiblepartnership ideas, both tried and true and unchartered territory. Wewill discuss suggestions for initiating and sustaining these collaborationsso that they are mutually beneficial.
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Reading Strategies to Support Learning in Multiple Texts
Description:
This session is an extension from previous presentations onincorporating reading into the math curriculum. I will be sharingsuggestions and ways to integrate reading strategies into a variety ofdisciplines. This will include vocabulary strategies, comprehensionstrategies and others. Bring your own suggestions to share witheveryone at the table.
Topic:
Research on Tutoring: The Year in Review
Description:
Learning assistance professionals rarely have time to keep up withcurrent research in their field. This is particularly true of the research oncollege and university tutoring. This discussion addresses findings frommajor research students on tutoring conducted between November of2016 and October of 2017. The discussion leader, Hunter Boylan, willprovide an annotated bibliography of some of the more relevantresearch on college and university tutoring. Participants will then raisequestions and participate in a discussion of the implications of thisresearch for practice.
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Scaffolding for Reading and Writing Based Projects
Description:
Come prepared to share your reading/writing activities which haveproven successful for your developmental students. Engage in adiscussion of a scaffolding approach to reading, writing, and studystrategies culminating in an exciting project that utilizes technology andstudents’ creativity in producing reading/writing strategies which areunique and publishable on YouTube or the Internet. Leave withexamples of student generated projects, technology resources, andideas on how to implement these new ideas in your classroom. We willall finish lunch as a “community of educators!”
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Lunch & Conversation With Jim Lang, Small Teaching for College Reading and Learning
Description:
The learning principles outlined in Small Teaching represent core cognitive activities that should help learners succeed in a variety of areas, but some may be more helpful than others in the specific work that learning professionals do with their students, such as one-on-one tutoring or mentoring. In this conversation, we’ll consider which of the Small Teaching principles have proven most effective for working with students in academic support or tutoring contexts, and how we can best put those principles in practice in such environments. Participants should come prepared to share their best small teaching practices with one another and the group.
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Tutor Training: How do you know it is working? (Standards,Outcomes, Assessment and evaluation for tutor training)
