On Course I Workshop Strategies

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Here's a reminder of strategies in the On Course I Workshop. How have you used or adapted them?

If you took the workshop a while ago, you may see strategies here you don't recognize. That's because the workshop keeps evolving with the addition of new learner-centered strategies for empowering students.  Click these links for information about the On Course I Workshop or On Course II Workshop.

1. GETTING ON COURSE
Purpose of the Workshop
The Late Paper (Case Study w/ discussion)
Popcorn Reading
Forks in the Road of Life
Inner Qualities of Successful Students (Solo/Handup-Standup/Pair)
Eight Choices of Successful/Struggling Students (Self-Assessment available online)
SCANS & Employability Skills Profile (Soft skills in the work place)
Seven Domains of Influence (How to empower collaterally)
Key Question: How can I USE/ADAPT this?
Outer Behaviors of Successful Students (Table write-around)
Choose Your Desired Outcomes & Experiences (Post-its)
DAPPS Rule (Qualities of an Effective Goal)
Aha Journal
Success Team
Success Team Constitution
2. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility Model (Choices of Victim/Creator)
Inner Voices (Inner Critic, Inner Defender, Inner Guide)
Language of Responsibility (Translating Victim to Creator)
Wise Choice Process (Six-step decision-making process)
3. SELF-MOTIVATION
What Motivates? (V x E = M)
Eight Intrinsic Motivators (Table Brainstorm/Report)
Affirmations (Create...then milling)
4. SELF-MANAGEMENT
Graduation Game (Ring Toss)
Self-Management Tools:
     Calendar
     Next Actions List
     Tracking Form
    
Use/Adapt Self-Management Tools (Corners)
5. INTERDEPENDENCE
Professor Rogers’ Trial (Case Study w/ Debate)
Eagles & Hawks: Mid-Course Reflection
Success Team Meeting
6.  SELF-AWARENESS
The Puzzle (How I did the puzzle is how I do my life)
Scripts (Discussion with stories)
Changing Habits (One habit I have….)
32-Day Commitment (Opportunity to gain/lose a habit)
7. LIFEL ONG LEARNING
Silent Socratic Dialogue (Response to quotations about education)
Guided Pair Conversation (Questions to discuss with partner)
8. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
After Math (Case Study w/ Role Play)
Components of Emotional Intelligence
Group assessment of
The Jigsaw: Strategies for Coaching Students to Manage Stressful Emotions
Use/Adapt Jigsaw
9. BELIEVING IN YOURSELF
How Explanatory Style Affects Self-Esteem (Lecture presenting research)
Disputing Your Inner Critic (Two columns: IC statement & Disputation)
Affirmation Whisper
10. CONCLUSION:  STAYING ON COURSE
On Course Foundations (Pyramid)
On Course Data
Benefits of Increased Retention
Focus Walk (Choice to pair with a 1, 2, or 3)
Next Steps (How big do I want to play?)
Special Interest Groups (Present how you will use/adapt one idea from workshop)
Success Team Wrap-Up (Evaluate achievement of your desired Outcomes/Experiences)
Commitments (Commitment Creates Method)
Report on achieved Outcomes/Experiences
Evaluation (Feedback for Facilitator)
Commencement (Final thoughts and closure)
11. MISCELLANEOUS
Aha's!
Music
Workshop Book
Humor
PP Slides
Timeless Wisdom (Quotations)