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Effective Officer Transition. Renee Alfano, Director, Student Life Madison Area Technical College. Introduce yourself. What are the challenges and issues you face with your current transition training model? List at least 3 items 1 per post-it note. Learning Outcomes.
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Effective Officer Transition Renee Alfano, Director, Student Life Madison Area Technical College
Introduce yourself.What are the challenges and issues you face with your current transition training model?List at least 3 items 1 per post-it note.
Learning Outcomes • Identify current challenges/issues of officer transition training. • Determine the most important content that should be included in transition training • Share successful techniques for training • Create a new framework for transition training • Share resources from other campuses
Most Common Content Included • Campus resources • Important phone numbers/contacts • Officer job descriptions, roles, responsibilities, org. structure • Timetable • Unfinished projects, summary of goals accomplished/not accomplished • Mistakes made that could have been avoided • Advice from outgoing officer • Some type of notebook or other materials/boxes • Budget update • Meeting minutes • Important University policies • Advisor role
What do we know about how our students learn? • Integrate a variety of learning styles • Utilize technology whenever possible • One shot mass education is not ideal • They are use to a “summary” approach to content (ie. USA Today style) • Reflection on their learning does not come natural. • Continual and consistent feedback works and is usually requested.
Resources • http://soo.studentorg.wisc.edu • http://www.nd.edu/~sao/studentleadership/officerresources/development/otransition.shtml • http://studentaffairs.odu.edu/osal/forms/studentorganizations/officertransition.pdf • http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/student/transitionhints.asp • http://www.studentactivities.uconn.edu/docs/soars/Advising_Officer_Transition.pdf • http://leadership.uark.edu/forms/rso/officertips.doc