Insert "Skill Bites" into Your Course to Enhance Discipline-Specific Development
Do first-year students come to your course ready to tackle the work in a meaningful productive way? Do you lose students to the discipline because they feel unable to handle the workload or get slammed on the tests? Are JMU’s first-year students well prepared to handle the rigor of a college curriculum? This workshop will explore ways that we as faculty in specific disciplines can help students to develop the learning skills that they need to be effective learners in their chosen disciplines. This workshop is primarily aimed at faculty who teach first-year students and all faculty who have early contact with students in their programs. Participants will have the opportunity to adapt a general learning strategy to use in a more course specific way.
Presenter: Nancy Harris and Renee Herrell
Nancy Harris is a Faculty Associate with the Center for
Faculty Innovation at James Madison University and is also a Lecturer for the Department of Computer Science in the College of Integrated Science and Technology. Ms.Harris holds an MS in Computer Science from James Madison, a BA in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University and a BA in Psychology from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Prior to joining James Madison in 2002, Ms. Harris worked in the software industry (CMDS/Jenzabar) holding such positions as Manager, Curriculum Development Group; Conversion Specialist and Team Leader; Manager, Technical Services Department; and Trainer/Consultant. During her tenure with CMDS/Jenzabar, professional development activities have included: Basic Management for the Newly Appointed Manager, University of Michigan; the Dale Carnegie Course; How to Train People to Use Computers, National Computer Training Institute; Effective Technical Writing, SOLUTIONS, Inc; and The Successful Training Manager, Langevin Learning Services; as well as a number of in-house training and management workshops.
At James Madison, Ms. Harris has participated in a number of faculty workshops including many of the new faculty workshop series and workshops for more experienced faculty, offered through both the CFI and the Center for Instructional Technology. In 2005, Ms. Harris became a TAP Consultant with the CFI.
Renée Herrell is Associate Director of Career and Academic Planning where she coordinates Freshman Advising and serves as an advisor to Undeclared students and provides career counseling. Prior to coming to James Madison University in 1997, she was Director of Career Services at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. A major focus of her position was coordinating the Academic Internship Program. Prior to that, she was the Associate Director of the Career Center at Georgetown University where she coordinated a peer counselor program. She has a M.Ed. in Counseling in Higher Education from George Mason University and a B.A. in Elementary Education from Virginia Tech. She taught all subjects in fourth and fifth grade and math to middle school students.
Times/Location:
Feb. 28th, 2008 (8:00am - 9:30am) in Taylor 306
or
Feb. 29th, 2008 (12:30pm - 2:00pm) in Roop 103