Staff Senate Holiday Breakfast and Open Forum (What's on your mind staff?), McIlhenny Ballroom, 4th Floor DeNaples Center, 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Invitations and more information to follow.

Staff and faculty are invited to attend this wellness event (Earn 10 Mind Pillar Pts)
Wednestday Nov 11th, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the Long Center Lobby
Topics include:  Cool, Calm & Collected, "Green" Skin,
Holey Moley, Winter Blues, Sleep on it & more
The NRCI will take pictures of your skin with their skin scope to show sun damage
Graduate Practicum Counseling students will provide depression screening.
Sponsored by Dr. Debra Fetherman and her worksite health promotion students
and the Employee Wellness Program.  For more information contact mascellic2@scranton.edu

The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring on Student Achievement at the University Level

Friday, 13 Nov 2009 • 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. • St. Thomas 590
Vincent G. Munley, Ph.D (Lehigh Univ., Dept. of Economics)

Peer tutoring is a commonly employed strategy at universities in economic education as well as other disciplines where developing problem solving skills is a key element in mastering the subject matter. While there appears to be a general consensus that peer tutoring is a successful learning technique, and its practice is supported by multiple professional organizations, little direct evidence has been gathered about the quantitative magnitude of its effectiveness.

In this presentation, Dr. Munley will examine the evidence at Lehigh University. The results suggest that the peer tutoring program has a positive and significant impact, though in order for the program to improve the expected letter grade, a student need participate in the program on average for about one hour per week over a fourteen-week semester.

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Using Active Learning Strategies to Enhance Student Learning

Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009 • 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. • St. Thomas 590

Dr. André Oberlé (CTLE) 

Tradition has it that Confucius said:

Modern educational research has proven what we always knew instinctively: Active students are better learners. This workshop examines how instructors can nurture student learning by incorporating active learning techniques into their lectures and seminars. They will see that even small modifications to the way material is treated in class can make a huge difference in the quality of student learning. A light lunch will be served.

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