“Student survive and thrive documents help to
minimize failure and maximize learning!”

Faculty Development Workshop Purpose and Focus

1. To develop the expertise (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) needed to create highly effective student survival documents
2. To identify and explore essential student survival documents (beyond the course syllabus) that will help students successfully complete the course

Overview

An effective course syllabus serves as the foundation of a course, for both the instructor and students. Student survival documents help to fortify that foundation and enhance the teaching-learning process.

Top 20 Learning Objectives

By successfully completing this workshop, participants should be able to demonstrate their expertise to describe and craft numerous student survival documents that will help their students do well in the course. This will be evident as participants:

1. Implement Howard Gardner’s List of Multiple Intelligences during self-introductions.
2. Apply Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs to their course.
3. Share Tips for Providing Positive Peer Reviews/Feedback.
4. Utilize Bloom’s Taxonomy.
5. Draft their Philosophy of Teaching.
6. List Keys to Success in their course.
7. Discuss characteristics of good and poor readers.
8. Share universal learning principles and strategies.
9. Craft a study guide for their course.
10. Explore study tips recommended by their former “A” students.
11. Explore and share free digital flash cards websites.
12. Create course-specific mnemonic devices.
13. Discuss practical ways to strength students’ self-efficacy levels.
14. Explore and share techniques that sharpen test-taking skills.
15. Draft grading rubrics.
16. Discuss ways for students to avoid plagiarism and its consequences.
17. Utilize APA (American Psychological Association) writing guidelines/format.
18. Create a List of Acronyms specific to their course or field.
19. Create a Nomenclature/Vocabulary List for their course.
20. Draft a Recommended Reading List (ideally annotated) for their course.

Handouts

Titles

1. Nomenclature:  Student Survive and Thrive Definitions
2. Best Practices for Empowering Students to Survive and Thrive
3. Samples:  Student Survive and Thrive Documents
4. Quotations: Students Survive and Thrive
5. References and Resources:  Students Survive and Thrive
6. Webliography:  Student Survive and Thrive Internet Resources

This faculty development workshop is available to serve as
Professional Development Hours.

Each participant, who successfully completes this
faculty development workshop,
will be awarded a “Certificate of Completion”.

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