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Overview:
Institutions that incorporate peer leadership and involvement in First Year seminars are able to reduce costs while simultaneously providing key support services to students. Thorough training programs are the difference between meaningful peer involvement and disengagement.
In this on-demand webcast, learn how to design and deploy a training program that guides peers to effectively manage their roles and successfully partner with faculty and staff.
You will learn how to:
- Involve peers in appropriate ways
- Create a meaningful and effective peer training program
- Prepare faculty to work with peer leaders in the classroom
Target Audience:
First Year seminar instructors, student affairs administrators, First Year student experience coordinators/directors, and deans of academic disciplines in charge of first year seminar programs.
Program Agenda:
| ON-DEMAND Presentation |
| Live Session Took Place June 11, 2009 |
- Introductions
- Goals of peer involvement; research highlights
- Recruiting peer mentors
- Importance of effective training for both peers and faculty/staff
- Implementing a peer mentor training program
- Key points to address with peer leaders
- Effective training models (orientation, workshops, courses)
- Incentives
- Preparing faculty to work with peer leaders
- Ideas for sharing leadership with a peer leader
- Intended and unintended consequences of peer mentoring in the classroom
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Instructor:
Joni Petschauer, Director, Western North Carolina Network for Access and Success
As the director, Joni works to support educational partnerships among Appalachian State University, University of North Carolina-Asheville, and Western Carolina University and area high schools seeking to increase the college readiness and enrollment into post-secondary education institutions. Joni has served as director of Freshman Learning Communities in General Studies at Appalachian State University and as a co-coordinator of the McGraw-Hill Institute for Student Success and Academic Change (ISSAC). She has taught Freshman Seminar since 1991 and co-facilitated the annual week-long training program for new course instructors. Additionally, she has consulted with campuses in the United States and Asia about improving access to higher education and developing and improving comprehensive First Year programs.
Ordering Information:
Ordering
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