Learning 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:

• create a productive learning environment,

• elevate the use of assessment and integrate an assessment system into a course,

• design, build, and facilitate effective learning teams and cooperative learning,

• facilitate active learning with timely constructive interventions on key issues and skills,

• use journaling and self-reflection,

• foster learner ownership and implement strategies for resistance to behavioral change,

• challenge performance (raising the bar),

• grow learner performance (including a special emphasis on reading),

• coordinate efforts (team teach) for teaching a course,

• preassess individuals and assess their outcomes,

• design a process-oriented syllabus with clearly defined expectations and requirements,

• connect with students; believe in their potential and publicly commit to their success,

• get students to take ownership for their own success (student buy-in),

• help students to build strong individual identities that is consistent with their life visions.