The
Reading, Learning, and Thinking Seminars is a faculty development program
across the disciplines that focuses on a repertoire of learning strategies
and related outcome measures designed to enhance student learning. We
have developed a framework that integrates theory and research from
reading comprehension, study skills, cognition, metacognition, and critical
thinking. Faculty from diverse disciplines review the essential cognitive
strategies students need to attend, receive, store, and remember information,
as well as the higher order thinking skills necessary to elaborate upon
what is comprehended. During the seminars, each participant develops
and refines instructional techniques most relevant to their subject
area. To date, over sixty faculty members from various disciplines from
both the Bronx and Lehman campus have participated in this faculty development
offering.
The
Reading, Learning, and Thinking Seminars is a faculty development program
across the disciplines that focuses on a repertoire of learning strategies
and related outcome measures designed to enhance student learning. We
have developed a framework that integrates theory and research from
reading comprehension, study skills, cognition, metacognition, and critical
thinking. Faculty from diverse disciplines review the essential cognitive
strategies students need to attend, receive, store, and remember information,
as well as the higher order thinking skills necessary to elaborate upon
what is comprehended. During the seminars, each participant develops
and refines instructional techniques most relevant to their subject
area. To date, over sixty faculty members from various disciplines from
both the Bronx and Lehman campus have participated in this faculty development
offering.