How to Scaffold Working Memory to Aid Learning

Presented by Dr. Rick Bryck

Working Memory (WM), a fundamental executive function, can be harnessed by learning centers and other student-serving departments in higher education to improve student outcomes, especially for neurodivergent students or students with executive function challenges.

WM serves as a gatekeeper to information processing and knowledge acquisition. This session covers fundamental attributes of WM, including its limitations, connections to learning, and the related concept of “cognitive load.”

Viewers will be able to take away the following from this presentation:

• Learn how to “hack” WM with strategies for efficient use of this limited but crucial component of learning during tutoring and learning sessions.
• Understand the connections and importance of working memory to learning.
• Modify academic content to empower learning centers and their support staff to maximize WM capacity, and thus make learning sessions more efficient.
• Understand and employ other strategies for supporting WM in learning centers, especially in students with executive function challenges.

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Bringing Tutors into the Classroom:
Piloting Embedded Tutoring

Presented by Luke Matulewicz

Embedded tutoring can reduce the DFW rates of a traditionally difficult course. It can also generate a large increase in tutoring traffic, higher test grades for students who attend tutoring, and higher final course grades. During this webinar, you’ll learn about the experience of Kansas State University with embedded tutoring: their successes, challenges, and data story – with statistical significance. You’ll also learn how you can duplicate these results at your own institution.

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Prioritize Your Wellbeing:
How Learning Center Professionals Can Adopt Self-Care Practices as an Act of Self-Compassion

Presented by Abe Saunders

This webinar outlines best practices for incorporating self-care as an act of self-compassion. The presentation includes discussion to enhance awareness, knowledge, and skills in the areas of self-care and mental health and wellness.

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Managing in the Face of Change:
Planning for Adaptability, Sustainability, and Growth

Presented by Stacey Blackwell

In this presentation, a learning center director who has managed a large operation of over 300 student leaders, four physical centers, online services, in-class supports, courses, training programs, and supplemental academic support programs will share some promising practices for managing in the face of change, with a focus on how to plan for adaptability, sustainability, and growth.

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Metacognition:
The Key to Educational Equity and Excellence 

Presented by Saundra Mcguire

Many students come to college lacking the thinking skills and strategies required to be academically successful. This may be particularly true for minoritized and first-generation students.

This presentation addresses how to close the achievement gap plaguing many institutions by teaching students metacognitive learning strategies that enable them to move from memorization and regurgitation to analysis, evaluation, and creation.

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Peer Tutor Trainings that Inspire, Educate, and Challenge:
Approaches to Tutor Training

Presented by Daniel Stanford

Tutor training programs have the potential not only to provide peer educators with prerequisite concepts, but to guide students in their growth as educators and draw them into the educational mission of the institutions we serve.

In order to accomplish this, we need to approach tutors as the advanced students and gifted educators they are, challenging them with intellectually engaging ideas and modelling the pedagogies that we hope to see them use in the center.

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Equity and Inclusion:
Decolonizing Learning Centers

Presented by Dr. Torri Staton

This interactive workshop will examine vocabulary and historical context that contributes to the equity and inclusion of our learning centers while understanding our roles in creating more accessibility in our learning spaces.

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