| New
Staff
Jaclyn Hac, recent IU Northwest graduate and former
Supplemental Instruction leader is the new full-time
program assistant in the SRP office. Jaclyn
will be working with all aspects of the SRP office. Her
office is Hawthorn 425.
Meeting the Challenge Conference
The Critical Literacy Program
gives Guided Studies students a chance to improve their
reading, study, and critical thinking skills and is
part of the required Guided Studies curriculum. As
part of ongoing efforts to revise the curriculum and
better meet the needs of our students, Cathy Hall and
Nycole West attended the Houghton Mifflin “Meeting
the Challenge” Conference
on Developmental Education. Workshops at the
conference focused on teaching methodology, classroom
technology, course design and curriculum in math, reading,
writing and study skills courses.
The keynote speaker, Mary Stuart Hunter, Director
of the National Resource Center for the First-Year
Experience (FYE) at the University of South Carolina,
addressed some the problems students faced when making
the transition to college and talked about the range
of programs offered by higher education institutions. Another
component of the conference, the pre-conference event,
focused on best practices in course design and redesign
and encouraged participants to re-evaluate their programs,
along with their mission.
One of the main benefits of the conference was the
opportunities to talk to other administrators and faculty
from similar programs across the United States. Some
of the best ideas we brought home from the conference
came from informal conversations rather than in the
more formal presentations. Attending this
conference gave both Nycole and I a renewed sense of
purpose and encouraged us to look at different methods
that will help students in the Critical Literacy Program
succeed. |
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