COL 105: Freshman Seminar

1. COL 105: Freshman Seminar Let’s Talk About Learning! Summer Training 2011

2. Let’s talk About Why We’re Here • Low persistence/High drop out rates • From “sink or swim” to challenge and support • Profound changes • Inability to adapt = withdrawal • Best predictors for success/persistence

3. Let’s Talk About COL 105 • Provides an academic, cultural, & social transition • Uses a learning-centered approach • Practical tools for success

4. Let’s Talk About “Learner-Centered” • Traditional Teaching • Are these students learning? • Is this teacher teaching? • Is this teacher-centered or learner-centered?

5. Let’s Talk about “Learner-Centered” • What do you think it means? • Metaphors

6. Let’s Talk about “Learner-Centered” • Learner-centered teachers “position themselves alongside the learner and keep the attention, focus, and spotlight aimed at and on the learning processes” (76). • “Learner-centered teachers are there every step of the way, but the real action features students and what they are doing” (77). Weimer, Maryellen. Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice. Jossey Bass: San Francisco, 2002.

7. Let’s Talk About What We Know

8. Let’s Talk About What We Know • Learning Styles • OnCourse categories • VARK categories • Other categories?

9. Let’s Talk About How We Do It • 7 Principles from Maryellen Weimer Weimer, Maryellen. Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice. Jossey Bass: San Francisco, 2002.

10. Let’s Talk About How We Do It • Designing Learner-Centered Education • 3 steps of facilitating experiential learning • 13 Strategies for Effective Facilitation

11. Idea Buffet Help yourself to as much or as little as you like!