Welcome to Mansfield University's
Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL)
April Events
April 26, 2022 (Tuesday) 9:00 AM
- Topic: Putting your skills to use: Addressing mental health in the classroom
- Guest Speakers: Master's in Mental Health Counseling at Lock Haven, Keneley Bautista and Jessica Wisser will be co-presenting with Counseling Faculty Whitney Robenolt, Bloomsburg and Lynn Bruner, Lock Haven
- Persistence and insight result from the connections we make. Professionals can build connections with their students between the lessons they teach by understanding and incorporating the validation of culture. Through establishing the foundations of cultural competence, important topics that highly affect college students and their mental health can be appropriately addressed.
- Location: Zoom. - Email Shelly at xji@mansfield.edu for the Zoom meeting ID and Passcode
April 28, 2022 (Thursday) 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
- Topic: Supporting Students - Using Best Practices & Institutional Data to Place Learning Center Peer Support Resources
- Guest Speaker: Dr. Christopher Cummings
- Location: Memorial Hall 107 or join via Zoom (check your university email for the Zoom link)
April Book Club
Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies you can Incorporate into any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation by Saundra Yancy McGuire with Stephanie McGuire
When: 3:00-4:00 PM, Mondays, April 4, 11, and 18
Facilitator: Lisa Stallbaumer-Beishline (BU TALE Director)
Register for the Event -- Deadline for Registration is 31 March
From the Publisher: “What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance.
For over a decade Saundra McGuire has been acclaimed for her presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning because the tools and strategies she shares have enabled faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success. This book encapsulates the model and ideas she has developed in the past fifteen years, ideas that are being adopted by an increasing number of faculty with considerable effect.
The methods she proposes do not require restructuring courses or an inordinate amount of time to teach. They can often be accomplished in a single session, transforming students from memorizers and regurgitators to students who begin to think critically and take responsibility for their own learning.” Explore McGuire’s Presentation Resources through the publisher.
Virtual Workshops: Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire, Friday, 20 May 2022
Invitation to instructional faculty and staff from Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield from BU’s Teaching & Learning Enhancement Center
Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. She has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops on effective learning strategies at over 500 institutions in 47 states and thirteen countries. Prior to joining LSU, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. Her best-selling books, Teach Students How to Learn and Teach Yourself How to Learn, are widely praised by faculty and students. The Parents’ Guide to Studying and Learning was released in January 2022.
Metacognition, Mindset, and Motivation: The Keys to Inclusive Excellence! -- 9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDST
Today’s students come to college with widely varying academic skills and motivation levels. Most students think that memorizing information just before examinations is tantamount to learning and spend considerably less time studying than is commensurate with their grade expectations. This interactive workshop will help address why many students lack confidence in their ability to learn and have difficulty achieving course learning outcomes. Cognitive science research-based methods that can be used to facilitate conceptual, transferable learning will be discussed. Additionally, data will be presented that supports the efficacy of teaching students about metacognitive learning strategies and mindset. We will also discuss strategies for addressing student needs for autonomy, competence, relatedness, self-esteem, and enjoyment in order to significantly increase student motivation.
Please register for Metacognition, Mindset, and Motivation here.
Teach Students How to Learn 2.0 -- 1:00-2:15 PM EDST
Have you already read about the approaches for teaching students how to learn, and even intended to try them, but haven’t done so yet? Or have you tried them and seen results that were less than optimal? This workshop will present the key components of a successful intervention and the “secret ingredients” that will inspire students to put transformative learning strategies into action! Participants will share successful strategies and suggest approaches for overcoming challenges. If you are new to Dr. McGuire’s work, you are welcome to join to learn about how others have been applying ideas from Teach Students how to Learn.
Please register for Teach Students How to Learn 2.0 here.
Misson
Our mission: to provide opportunities for faculty to grow professionally and leverage educational technology effectively.
Do you have 4 minutes to learn how can technology enhance your teaching and your students' learning experiences? The SAMR model can guide the tools you choose and how you use them!
This graphic presents our vision for our campus. Click on the stars to access a working definition of each area and then to access resources for teaching and learning in that category. Each category offers a range of educational technology tools on the bottom half and pedagogical resources on the top half. Updates will be emailed to you as resources are added, or you can revisit this site at any time to explore. We welcome any suggestions or shared practices you provide.
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Feedback? Ideas for Professional Development? Contact CATL
This site is under development. Resources will be added and modified as feedback from all stakeholders is collected and applied. Please share your feedback with the CATL Committee:
Shelly Ji, CATL Coordinator
xji@mansfield.edu