Student Success institute

Facilitated by: Dan Apple

This 3-day online event is synchronous. Participants will meet via Zoom but both participants and facilitators will also use our web-based learning management system.

The Student Success Institute is based on the premise that a key role of educators in higher education is that of a mentor who fosters a learner’s growth and the development of his or her cognitive, social, and affective skills. Success is referred to not simply in terms of academic success but rather in terms of a broad set of those skills required for success beyond college.

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)
• Pre-assess individuals and assess learning 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
• Help students take ownership for their own success (student buy-in)
• Help students to build strong individual identities that are consistent with their life visions