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Learning: April
16-17, 2009
Angela Provitera McGlynn, professor emeritus of psychology at Mercer County Community College where she taught for 35 years, has presented workshops on teaching, learning, and diversity issues across the United States. She is the author of six books/manuscripts including Successful Beginning for College Teaching: Engaging your students from the first day, published by Atwood Publishing, 2001. Her latest book is entitled, Teaching Today’s College Students: Widening the Circle of Success, Atwood Publishing, 2007. Angela has also published numerous scholarly articles on a various topics, including more than 90 articles for the journal, Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. Angela’s e-mail address is: amcglynn5@verizon.net and her Web site is: http://www.mccc.edu/~amcglynn/index.html. Engaging Today’s College Students and Managing Disruptive Classroom Behavior How do today’s college students differ from those of previous generations? This session will focus on “millennials” and discuss the pedagogical strategies that are most effective in engaging them and helping them to learn. Emphasizing the learner-centered classroom and fostering critical thinking skills, the presenter will also suggest ways that faculty members can create a classroom atmosphere to prevent disruptive behavior and offer strategies to manage disruptive classroom behavior should it occur. |
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