How Does a Boomer Professor Teach a Nester Student?
Can a greater awareness of our students make our jobs easier? Join LuAnn Reif (Nursing) and Laura Rodgers (Nursing) as they explore the varying characteristics, interests, and values across generations, and discuss ways to make our approach to different generations of students more relevant, effective, and attractive. Advanced Organizers: Giving Students the Ticket to Get “On Board” for Class We help students link upcoming course material with what they have already learned in a variety of ways, from outlines to verbally reviewing the key points from the previous class. “Advanced Organizers” is an approach, drawn form cognitive psychology, which prepares students to mentally receive upcoming course material. Join Rodger Narloch (Psychology) and Linda Tennison (Psychology) as they present the “advanced organizer” techniques they use to bring students “on board” whether it is the beginning of a class period or of the entire course. Examples will include web-assignments, PowerPoint organi
