CADEMIC
ACADEMIC COMPETENCY TRAINING (ACT):
to kick your #$%! & your brain into gear with
skills & strategies to be a successful student!
10 Week Program
2 Hours weekly
4 Different Time Slots
Offered
The BOOT CAMP is FREE,
but please pre-register by emailing:
cecilia.jacobs@acadiau.ca
CADEMIC
COORDINATORS:
 MEG TOWNSEND, MEd, MEd &
 CECILIA JACOBS, BEd,
OFFICE: Student Services, Old Sub
OFFICE HOURS: by appointment
Email: meg.townsend@acadiau.ca &
Cecilia.jacobs@acadiau.ca
OVERVIEW
The GOALS of the BOOT CAMP
are to:
• Enhance student academic
performance
• Increase student
engagement
• Establish higher retention &
graduation rates
OBJECTIVES
• Reflect on past academic
experiences & build new
strategies to help achieve goals
• Examine motivation, MINDSET,
and learning styles
• To understand that academic
success is based on the ‘whole”
student and BALANCE
• Set and achieve realistic GOALS
• Enhance those SKILLS required
for deep learning & academic
success
THE ABCD’s
OF
CADEMIC
• AUDIENCE – who you are
• BEHAVIOUR – the verb that
describes what you do and
will be able to do
• COURSE objectives
• DESIGN of the program –
based on adult learning
principles
AUDIENCE
• All students addressing
academic recovery issues
• Share similar feelings:
• DENIAL
• ANGER
• BARGAINING
• DEPRESSION
• ACCEPTANCE
FACT
• Martin Luther King Jr. once
received a C in public speaking.
• What the Best College Students Do
Book by Ken Bain.
The answer?
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
SURFACE, STRATEGIC & DEEP
LEARNING
• SURFACE LEARNING
– The surface learner enters the classroom with an
interest in determining the bare minimum effort &
understanding necessary to pass the course.
• STRATEGIC LEARNING
– The strategic learner asks a similar question,
replacing only “to pass the course” with “to
get an A.”
*In the years that follow, the strategic
learners will retain no more course content
than the surface learners.
So –
While the surface learners might graduate
with Cs, and the strategic learners with As,
within a year or two both will have an
understanding worthy of and F.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
SURFACE, STRATEGIC & DEEP
LEARNING
• Deep Learning
What is it?
What does it look like?
Activity –
In small groups (3 or 4 students)
discuss deep learning and list
answers to the above questions.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
SURFACE, STRATEGIC & DEEP
LEARNING
• DEEP LEARNERS:
It is only the deep learners – those who
SEEK REAL MEANING from the material and
QUESTION THEIR OWN THINKING PROCESS
(known to theorists as metacognition) –
that gain substantive value from their
postsecondary educational experience.
Their intrinsic motivation for learning
compels them to delve beyond the
assigned material.
REAL LEARNING, then, IS HARD WORK.
- And the best students are not only
willing but genuinely want to work hard.
B (BEHAVIOUR) WHAT YOU DO
• What you get out of the
program
will be in proportion to what
you put in.
MINDSET –
I ask you to be an Adlerian
B (BEHAVIOUR) –
WHAT YOU ARE ABLE
TODO
• Be a deeper learner
– Reflection assignment
C (COURSE OBJECTIVES)
• Reflect on past academic experiences
& build new strategies to help achieve
goals
• Examine motivation, strengths and
learning styles
• To understand that academic
success is based on the ‘whole”
student and balance
• Set and achieve realistic goals
• Enhance those skills required for
deep learning & academic
success
COURSE SCHEDULE
D (DESIGN OF THE PROGRAM)
BASED ON ADULT LEARNING
PRINCIPLES
Pedagogy
NOUN
ped-uh-goh-jee, -goj-ee]
[
1. the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
2. the art or science of teaching; education; instructional methods.
About the Word:
Like pediatrician, pedagogy has an ancestor in ped-, meaning "child."
Origin:
Greek paidagogia – office of a child’s tutor
Examples:

Successful completion leads to a postgraduate certificate in High School
level mathematics pedagogy.

She also researches into adult education focusing on distance
learning pedagogy.
Recent offspring: Andragogy, meaning "the art or science of teaching
adults," was coined in 1970 using andr- (meaning "man") and "agogy"
from pedagogy.
http://www.merriam-webster.com
PEDAGOGY
SYNONYMS for pedagogy:
coaching
enlightenment
guidance
learning
nurture
schooling
teaching
tutoring
drilling
erudition
instruction
literacy
rearing
study
trainings
tutelage
ANTONYMS for pedagogy:
•
•
•
•
•
confusion
destruction
ignorance
neglect
worsening
PEDAGOGY – Visual Representation
ANDRAGOGY
• The art and science of helping
adults LEARN (Malcolm Knowles, 1980)
• Assumptions about adult
learners:
– Self-directed
– Ready to learn (when s/he assumes
new role)
– Problem-centered and wants to
apply new learning immediately
– Is motivated to learn by internal,
rather than external factors
DIDACTIC
• Conveying instruction;
• Teaching some moral lesson
• Example:
Justice and Equality
The right way to bestow, the glow way to Integrity, If you
wanna bloom, build a habit of Honesty,
Equality is the basic theme of Mankind, Who is white who
is black, it doesn't Mind,
Justice! in each path of your Life,
It will transform your all acts Nice,
You not need to bow, don’t you Surrender,
Don’t be punative, Be the power of Thunder,
We the people of one God! Why there is difference! Beat
the Inequality, and place The Justice Preference!
Rich or Poor , Low or High, Don’t matter where You Are!
Will go the same grave same as martyred Soldier after the War!
M. Shahid H. Chouhdry
Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Learning Styles
Learning styles is a theory that suggests people learn better
using different methods of learning.
We perceive information using our senses. The three most practical
senses in learning environments are: sight, hearing and touch.
Three sensory methods of learning are:
1.
2.
3.
Visual (V),
Auditory (A)
Kinesthetic (K)
Different Ways to Learn
While most people have a dominant learning style, nobody has just one
learning style.
-Everyone uses each of the learning styles to some degree. Some
are stronger in one style while others have even strength in all styles. The
reality is that we all have a custom "learning style" that is, in varying degrees,
a combination of Visual, Auditory & Kinesthetic learning.
Understanding Your Learning Styles
It is useful to know the strength of your learning styles as they relate to each
other. This allows you to focus on maximizing your learning potential.
*Also helps you to seek learning opportunities that cater to your
combination of learning style strengths.
Adult learning –Coordinator’s role
• Set a cooperative climate for learning
• Address student’s needs & interests
• Facilitate the learning to achieve the
objectives
– Learning is sequential
• Work collaboratively with students to
select topics & resources for instruction
– Meet one-on-one
• Evaluate the quality of the learning
experience & make adjustments, while
assessing needs for further learning
The MINDSET Inventory
_____Total Motivation score
_____Total Initiative score
_____Total Navigation score
_____Total Direction score
_____Total Study Skills score
_____Total Expectations score
_____Total Time Management score
MINDSET – Your Response
• Are you an Adlerian?
MOTIVATION
BRAIN POWER &
MINDSET
• FIXED MINDSET
– Belief that intelligence is fixed:
• Innate
• Unchangeable
• GROWTH MINDSET
– Belief that: intelligence is fixed:
• Challenge and struggle are good
• Practice is valuable
• Effort more important than aptitude
*Therefore – Changeable
-with exercise
The power of simple shift in mindset
• With a FIXED mindset, effort and
difficulty make students feel dumb. But
with a GROWTH mindset, effort and
difficulty means you are becoming
smarter!
(Dweck, 2006)
MOTIVATION
• Misconception that the leading
factor in success is cognitive
ability (kind measured on IQ
tests)
• More important qualities that
lead to SUCCESS:
– persistence,
– self-control,
– curiosity, grit,
– conscientiousness,
– self-confidence,
– optimism
Get Organized
How to Get Motivated
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