Institute Outcomes

The institute will provide strategies, techniques, and tools which foster personal growth and development of students in the context of first-year courses and learning-to-learn camps. Institute participants will learn how to:

  1. Create a productive learning environment,

  2. Elevate the use of assessment and integrate an assessment system into a course

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  3. Design, build, and facilitate effective learning teams and cooperative learning

  4. Facilitate active learning with timely constructive interventions on key issues and skills

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  5. Use journaling and self-reflection

  6. Foster learner ownership and implement strategies for resistance to behavioral change

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  7. Challenge performance (raising the bar)

  8. Grow learner performance (including a special emphasis on reading)

  9. Coordinate efforts (team teach) for teaching a course

  10. Preassess individuals and assess their outcomes

  11. Design a process-oriented syllabus with clearly defined expectations and requirements

  12. Connect with students; believe in their potential and publicly commit to their success

  13. Get students to take ownership for their own success (student buy-in)

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  14. Help students to build strong individual identities that is consistent with their life visions

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