Faculty Colloquium and Learning Assistant Professionals’ Workshop West Virginia Wesleyan educators are seeking to make a greater impact on their teaching and learning culture. This project featured two events: an introduction to metacognition and application of strategies for faculty, and a metacognitive workshop for educators who work with students primarily outside of the classroom. Participants responded well to the metacognitive …
Transforming Good Tutors into Great Tutors
Tutor Training August 11, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm, 2015 EST (Past Event) Virginia Western Community College takes tutoring seriously! They have an active CRLA certified tutoring program. Their tutors are very good at what they do. This comprehensive 4-hour training event demonstrated ways tutors (and other educators who were present) could used metacognition to enhance their work with students. Participants gained a …
Developing a Metacognitive Tutoring Program: Moving Beyond Important to Becoming Impactful
Live Webinar Tuesday, July 21 & Wednesday, July 22; 2:00 – 3:30 pm, EST (Past Event) Tuesday, July 21 & Wednesday, July 22; 2:00 – 3:30 pm, EST. This webinar series provided specific actions that tutoring programs could take to move beyond important to become impactful! Participants received everything needed to integrate metacognition into existing tutoring programs or establish a …