John Oughton: Mentoring and Coaching

Teaching can sometimes be a stressful occupation. Academic coordinators may not feel ready to counsel and guide faculty members whose teaching strategies, classroom management, and evaluation are being questioned by students or managers. Sometimes mentoring is the appropriate response, but in other situations a coaching approach may be more fruitful. Learn through a combination of group instruction, pair exercises, and a coaching demonstration.


By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Kristen Deuzeman - Student Advising: Creating Effective Conversations

This workshop is designed to review methods and techniques to enhance this student-advisor interaction and communication by focusing on ways to strengthen the capacity to listen effectively and employ self-reflection. At the end of this workshop, participants in this workshop will:

Karen Hodgins: Coordinators' Curriculum Conversations

Ruth Stiehl, a prominent authority on college curriculum suggests that “curriculum development is a conversation, not a technology”.  What are those essential conversations a program coordinator needs to have with their program team to be able to effectively fulfill the curriculum component of their role? Join us for a series of conversations and activities designed to not only explore the coordinator’s roles and challenges, but also to develop solutions to take back and implement with your program team.

At the end of this workshop participants will: