How do we support healthy learning strategy engagements?
Description: The most significant part of your role as a learning specialist is one-to-one appointments with students. Two sets of skills are needed: skills of effective engagement during the appointment and the learning strategies themselves. How do you develop skill in each area? How do you measure your growth and development? What theory underpins your practice? How do we support healthy learning strategy engagements?
Dr. Buckland will explore aspects of these questions with the group and cover knowledge acquisition and Cognitive Flexibility Theory as they apply to students and to themselves. Participants will then work through a student scenario together and finally strategize how to apply the principles from the session to their own practice to support healthy learning engagements.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the two main skill sets needed for learning strategies engagements.
2. Understand how to apply the principles of knowledge acquisition and Cognitive Flexibility Theory to their student engagements.
3. Reflect on approaches to learning specialists’ continuous growth and development in the context of a busy schedule.
Bio: Joanne Buckland, EdD is the Director of Innovation and Development for the Learning Strategies Unit in the Department of Education at St. George’s University (SGU) in Grenada, West Indies. She has worked as a learning strategist at SGU for 13 years and as a tutor and strategist for 5 years at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, before that. SGU has premedical, medical, veterinary, undergrad, and graduate programs and she works with students in all programs and has a passion for supporting students with ADHD. She graduated from the Columbia University Coaching Certification program in 2019 and does some coaching with faculty and students at SGU.
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