Faculty Event - Get Students to Focus on Learning Instead of Grades: Metacognition is Key!

Date: Friday, February 12, 2021
Time: 12:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Where: Online Event

21st Century students come to college with widely varying academic skills, approaches to learning, and motivation levels.

Faculty often lament that students are focused on achieving high grades, but are not willing to invest much time or effort in learning. This session, facilitated by Saundra McGuire and hosted by The Quad-POD, will focus on the importance of helping students acquire simple, but effective, learning strategies based on cognitive science principles. We will engage in interactive reflection activities that will allow attendees to experience strategies that significantly improve student success by transforming students' attitudes about the meaning of learning.

Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at LSU. Prior to joining LSU, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. She has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops at over 400 institutions in 46 states and ten countries. Her book, Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation, was released in October 2015 and is a Stylus Publishing bestseller. The student version of this book, Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level, was released in January 2018.

Register for the Faculty Zoom event.