Tutoring: Research + Practice = Retention
Pre-Conference Workshops
NCLCA & the Learning Center Leadership Certification
David L. Reedy, President
National College Learning Center Assoc.
Certified Learning Center Professional – Level 3
Come learn about the National College Learning Center and the certification process for learning assistance professionals. Using our process, you will be able to identify activities that you have been a part of in your past as well as your current and future that support professional development. The process can also help you develop activities that will help with your daily activities of tutoring to document successes of student learning, effectiveness of services, etc. Participants will leave having created a personal philosophy of tutoring and learning assistance which can help identify strengths as well as point out areas of individual need.
Asking, Watching, and Waiting: Steps to recognizing the Physical appearance of Cognitive Activity in Learners.
Dr. Jim Johnston
The session will include ways in which Tutors can be trained to recognize and interpret student’s outward showings or physical manifestations of learning.
The interpretation of the look of learning can help teachers understand:
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Why students continue to be unproductive regardless of efficient study time and skills, or practice.
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Why students seem to know information but add non-sense filler information to answers…lists and spelling
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Why student’s accepted realities/ personal scripts interfere with academic success and poor self concepts that lead to poor performance
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Why active listening skills are invaluable in regards to the physical manifestation of learning.
The session will provide experiences in identifying the “look of Learning” and more effective ways of prescribing study skills that match the learner’s need.
