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Managing Groups (Peer Leaders Only) | 3/19/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Online (Zoom) | 3/18/2024 |
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Peer leaders will analyze elements of group dynamics and collaborative learning, while developing strategies to implement when managing groups of students in lectures, labs, recitations, study groups, and tutoring sessions. The Zoom meeting link will be emailed to your Rutgers email at least 2 hours before the start time. If it is 2 hours before the workshop start time and you still do not see the email in your Inbox or Spam folders, please let us know at pltraining@echo.rutgers.edu. | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 3/19/2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Bldg. 1251 | Register | |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 3/20/2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Online via Zoom | Register | |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | |||||
Effective Questioning (Peer Leaders Only) | 3/20/2024 | 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett Hall 111 NP | 3/19/2024 | Register |
If you are asking yourself, "How do I know what to ask my students to better understand what they may need help with?" then this is the workshop for you! In this workshop, peer leaders will recognize the different contexts and types of questioning and utilize questioning techniques for effectively guiding students through their learning. | |||||
Academic Success Series: Less Stress, More Success (Open to all students) | 3/20/2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | College Avenue Learning Center, Academic Building 1150B | 3/20/2024 | Register |
Academic Success Series: Less Stress, More Success (Open to all students) | |||||
Exercising Metacognition (Peer Leaders Only) | 3/21/2024 | 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Online (Zoom) | 3/20/2024 |
Registration full
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Peer leaders will determine ways to promote and integrate the use of metacognition in their student sessions. Peer leaders will also practice performing metacognitive tasks and will be able to discuss how metacognition specifically ties into student assignments and assessments. The Zoom meeting link will be emailed to your Rutgers email at least 2 hours before the start time. If it is 2 hours before the workshop start time and you still do not see the email in your Inbox or Spam folders, please let us know at pltraining@echo.rutgers.edu. | |||||
Back On Track Support Group Session 1 (SOE Probation students only) | 3/22/2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111L | Register | |
Back On Track Support Group Session 1 (SOE Probation students only) | |||||
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) | 3/22/2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | College Avenue Learning Center, Academic Building 1125 | 3/22/2024 | Register |
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) Unleash your potential with a weekly group coaching program to help students enhance their focus, concentration, and productivity. This program is ongoing each Friday from 2/2 through 4/26 (with the exception of Spring Break week). | |||||
Back on Track Support Group Session 1 (Open to all students facing academic challenges) | 3/22/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Bldg. 1125 | 3/22/2024 | Register |
The Back on Track Support Group is a supportive community for students facing academic challenges and falling behind in classes. Students will be provided with tools and resources that can address barriers and help get them back on track to succeeding in classes, and the group will connect peers facing similar challenges. This is a 4-week commitment. This group meets for 4 consecutive Fridays from 3/22 through 4/12 at 2pm-3pm. Register here to commit to all 4 weekly meetings. | |||||
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) | 3/25/2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111L | 3/25/2024 | Register |
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) Start your week off right with the Learning Centers. Talk through motivation challenges, plan priority tasks for the week, maybe learn a new study strategy. | |||||
Teaching Study Skills (Peer Leaders Only) | 3/25/2024 | 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett Hall 111 NP | 3/24/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will have the opportunity to consider how study strategies can be integrated into planned questions, tasks and/or activities, providing their students with independent learning strategies in addition to content comprehension. | |||||
Formative Assessment (Peer Leaders Only) | 3/26/2024 | 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Building 1150 B | 3/25/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will learn about measuring student progress and instruction effectiveness during a session, asking the right questions, designing short "check for understanding" activities, and providing feedback effectively. | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 3/26/2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Bldg. 1251 | Register | |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 3/27/2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Online via Zoom | Register | |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | |||||
Back On Track Support Group Session 3 (SOE Probation students only) | 3/27/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Busch Learning Center, SERC 104 | Register | |
Back On Track Support Group (SOE Probation students only) | |||||
Stress Management (Peer Leaders Only) | 3/28/2024 | 5:40 PM - 7:00 PM | Busch Learning Center, SERC 104 | 3/27/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will discuss and practice strategies for managing academic and non-academic needs to reduce stress within their roles, as well as from the perspective of being a student. Peer leaders will acquire stress management techniques and resources that they can share with their students, and directly implement into their practice as peer educators. | |||||
Back On Track Support Group Session 2 (SOE Probation students only) | 3/29/2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111L | Register | |
Back On Track Support Group Session 2 (SOE Probation students only) | |||||
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) | 3/29/2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | College Avenue Learning Center, Academic Building 1125 | 3/29/2024 | Register |
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) Unleash your potential with a weekly group coaching program to help students enhance their focus, concentration, and productivity. This program is ongoing each Friday from 2/2 through 4/26 (with the exception of Spring Break week). | |||||
MCAT Prep (Open to all students) | 3/29/2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111 NP | 3/29/2024 | Register |
MCAT Prep (Open to all students) | |||||
Working with Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Presented by College Support Program (Peer Leaders Only) | 3/29/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Online (Canvas) | 3/28/2024 |
Registration full
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Peer Leaders will have the opportunity to learn more about working with students on the autism spectrum and gain a general understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Peer Leaders will also receive a brief overview of the College Support Program and how CSP supports their students. The Zoom meeting link will be emailed to your Rutgers email at least 2 hours before the start time. If it is 2 hours before the workshop start time and you still do not see the email in your Inbox or Spam folders, please let us know at pltraining@echo.rutgers.edu. | |||||
GRE Prep - Quantitative Reasoning (Open to all students) | 3/29/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111 NP | 3/29/2024 | Register |
GRE Prep - Quantitative Reasoning (Open to all students) | |||||
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) | 4/1/2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111L | 4/1/2024 | Register |
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) Start your week off right with the Learning Centers. Talk through motivation challenges, plan priority tasks for the week, maybe learn a new study strategy. | |||||
Graduate Workshop Series -- Reading & Selecting Journal Articles (Open to all graduate students) | 4/1/2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Online via Zoom | 3/31/2024 | Register |
Graduate Workshop Series -- Reading & Selecting Journal Articles (Open to all graduate students) | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 4/2/2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Bldg. 1251 | 4/2/2024 | Register |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 4/3/2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Online via Zoom | 4/3/2024 | Register |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/7998951717?pwd=ckRzcis1V3dYQWlCK2pVUCt6WUJ6Zz09 | |||||
Supporting Students with Disabilities - Presented by Office of Disability Services (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/3/2024 | 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett Hall 111 NP | 4/2/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will gain an awareness of the various ways students learn and best approaches to use when working with students with learning disabilities. Peer leaders will also discuss common disabilities and will be provided with campus and external resources for additional student assistance. This workshop will be presented by the Office of Disability Services. | |||||
Graduate Workshop Series -- Unleash Your Productivity (Open to all graduate students) | 4/3/2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Online via Zoom | 4/2/2024 | Register |
Graduate Workshop Series -- Unleash Your Productivity (Open to all graduate students) | |||||
The Peer Leader's Guide to Effective Communication (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/4/2024 | 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Building 1150 B | 4/3/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will learn about common types of communicators and their associated characteristics. They will identify strategies to practice their assertive, positive, and empathetic communication skills based on various situations in a learning environment. | |||||
Getting Started with Research Writing at the Graduate Level-The Revision Process (Open to all graduate students) | 4/4/2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Online (Zoom) | 4/3/2024 | Register |
This is the second of a two-part workshop which will provide graduate students with an organized approach to revising and proofreading their research papers. Attendees will be given strategies to help them improve the clarity, coherence, and organization of their content. Tips on copy editing and proofreading will also be covered, so students have the necessary tools to review their own writing for accuracy before submission. Students can attend both parts of the workshop or either one, depending on their needs. | |||||
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) | 4/5/2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | College Avenue Learning Center, Academic Building 1125 | 4/5/2024 | Register |
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) Unleash your potential with a weekly group coaching program to help students enhance their focus, concentration, and productivity. This program is ongoing each Friday from 2/2 through 4/26 (with the exception of Spring Break week). | |||||
GRE Prep - Analytical Writing (Open to all students) | 4/5/2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | College Ave. Learning Center, Academic Bldg. 1150AB | 4/5/2024 | Register |
GRE Prep - Analytical Writing (Open to all students) | |||||
Spring 2024 New Peer Leader Orientation - Modules A & B (New Peer Leaders Only) | 4/5/2024 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett Hall 111 NP | 4/4/2024 | Register |
Register for this session of Modules A & B if you will be working for the first time in Spring 2024 as a new peer leader (peer group tutor, writing tutor, Learning Assistant, or peer coach) with the Learning Centers. As a reminder, for New Peer Leader Orientation, new peer leaders must complete a series of modules in this order: the New Peer Leader Orientation Asynchronous Module on the Peer Leader Training Canvas site and the in-person or online-synchronous Modules A, B, C, & D (make sure to register and attend each one). If you have not yet been added to the Peer Leader Training Canvas site, please email pltraining@echo.rutgers.edu with your Rutgers net ID. You must complete the asynchronous module on Canvas before your first day of the in-person or online-synchronous orientation modules. | |||||
Spring 2024 New and Returning Peer Leader Orientation - Modules C & D (New and Returning Peer Leaders Only) | 4/6/2024 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett Hall 111 NP | 4/5/2024 | Register |
Register for this session of Modules C & D if you will be a new or returning peer leader (peer tutor, writing tutor, Learning Assistant, or peer coach) in Spring 2024 with the Learning Centers and did not attend orientation this past summer or fall. As a reminder, for New & Returning Peer Leader Orientation, all peer leaders must complete a series of modules in this order: the New or Returning Peer Leader Orientation Asynchronous Module on the Peer Leader Training Canvas site and the in-person or online-synchronous Modules A, B, C & D for new peer leaders or Modules C & D for returning peer leaders (make sure to register for your required modules and attend each one). If you have not yet been added to the Peer Leader Training Canvas site, please email pltraining@echo.rutgers.edu with your Rutgers net ID. You must complete the asynchronous module on Canvas before your first day of the in-person or online-synchronous orientation modules. | |||||
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) | 4/8/2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111L | 4/8/2024 | Register |
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) Start your week off right with the Learning Centers. Talk through motivation challenges, plan priority tasks for the week, maybe learn a new study strategy. | |||||
Inclusive Instructional Practices (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/9/2024 | 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM | Busch Learning Center, SERC 104 | 4/8/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will learn about the challenges faced by underserved populations and how to maintain that awareness while working with diverse groups of students. Peer leaders will explore various strategies and practices that they can implement to promote an inclusive environment. | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 4/9/2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Bldg. 1251 | Register | |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | |||||
Elevate Learning Through Growth Mindset (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/10/2024 | 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett Hall 111 NP | 4/9/2024 | Register |
How students perceive themselves as learners affects their ability to learn. Join this workshop to explore students’ self-perceptions (and your own) around academic performance. We will talk about the power of mindset, the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset, and how your role as a peer leader can help students to begin to shift into more productive ideas about their potential. | |||||
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | 4/10/2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Online via Zoom | Register | |
Peer Group Coaching (Open to all students) | |||||
GRE Prep – Verbal Reasoning (Open to all students) | 4/10/2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Online via Zoom | 4/9/2024 | Register |
GRE Prep – Verbal Reasoning (Open to all students) | |||||
Graduate Workshop Series -- Lit Review 101 (Open to all graduate students) | 4/11/2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Online via Zoom | 4/10/2024 | Register |
Graduate Workshop Series -- Lit Review 101 (Open to all graduate students) | |||||
Mental Health and You - Presented by Rutgers University Diversity Peer Educators (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/12/2024 | 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Building 1150 B | 4/11/2024 | Register |
This workshop will be presented by Rutgers University Diversity Peer Educators. This session will highlight the importance of mental health while unpacking some of the stigmas and on-going discrimination practices. Resources about mental health help will also be shared and peer leaders will reflect on how this can help themselves as individuals and for their students. | |||||
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) | 4/12/2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | College Avenue Learning Center, Academic Building 1125 | 4/12/2024 | Register |
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) Unleash your potential with a weekly group coaching program to help students enhance their focus, concentration, and productivity. This program is ongoing each Friday from 2/2 through 4/26 (with the exception of Spring Break week). | |||||
Structuring the Conversation (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/15/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Busch Learning Center, SERC 104 | 4/14/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will explore different ways in how to proactively and reactively structure conversations during sessions with students and facilitate discussion in a direction that benefits all students. | |||||
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) | 4/15/2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111L | 4/15/2024 | Register |
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) Start your week off right with the Learning Centers. Talk through motivation challenges, plan priority tasks for the week, maybe learn a new study strategy. | |||||
Back On Track Support Group (SOE Probation students only) | 4/17/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Busch Learning Center, SERC 104 | Register | |
Back On Track Support Group (SOE Probation students only) | |||||
Teaching Study Skills (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/17/2024 | 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Building 1150 B | 4/16/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will have the opportunity to consider how study strategies can be integrated into planned questions, tasks and/or activities, providing their students with independent learning strategies in addition to content comprehension. | |||||
Night Against Procrastination | 4/17/2024 | 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Cook Douglass Learning Center (Loree Classroom/Office Building, Room 124) | 4/17/2024 |
Registration will start on 3/25/2024
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Night Against Procrastination (Cook Douglass Learning Center) Wednesday, April 17 9:00PM-11:00PM Tutoring, Academic Coaching. Light snacks, Therapy Animals, Raffle and more! | |||||
Night Against Procrastination | 4/17/2024 | 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center (Tillett Hall Room 111) | 4/17/2024 |
Registration will start on 3/25/2024
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Night Against Procrastination (Livingston and Cook Douglass Learning Centers) Wednesday, April 17th from 9:00pm-11:00pm Tutoring, Academic Coaching, Light Snacks, Therapy Animals, Raffle Prizes, and More! | |||||
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) | 4/19/2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | College Avenue Learning Center, Academic Building 1125 | 4/19/2024 | Register |
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) Unleash your potential with a weekly group coaching program to help students enhance their focus, concentration, and productivity. This program is ongoing each Friday from 2/2 through 4/26 (with the exception of Spring Break week). | |||||
Exercising Metacognition (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/19/2024 | 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Building 1150 B | 4/18/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will determine ways to promote and integrate the use of metacognition in their student sessions. Peer leaders will also practice performing metacognitive tasks and will be able to discuss how metacognition specifically ties into student assignments and assessments. | |||||
Spring 2024 Universal Design for Learning Asynchronous Canvas Module - TLT (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/22/2024 | Online (Canvas) | 4/19/2024 | Register | |
This is an optional asynchronous workshop which counts as one workshop towards the professional development requirement for Learning Centers' peer leaders To complete this workshop, please register here and email pltraining@echo.rutgers.edu with your net ID and name of the workshop to request being added to the "Asynchronous Professional Development Workshops AY 23 - 24" Canvas site. Peer leaders will explore the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and challenges in a learning environment that universal design can help overcome. Peer leaders will also apply strategies and guidelines of UDL to their interactions with students. | |||||
Spring 2024 Web Applications & Tools for Student Development - Asynchronous Canvas Module (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/22/2024 | Online (Canvas) | 4/19/2024 | Register | |
This is asynchronous workshop counts as one workshop towards the professional development requirement for Learning Centers' peer leaders (tutors and Learning Assistants). To complete this workshop, please register here and email pltraining@echo.rutgers.edu with your net ID and name of the workshop to request being added to the "Asynchronous Professional Development Workshops AY 23 - 24" Canvas site. Peer leaders will learn about the variety of online applications, websites and tools that can be used as supplementary resources when working with students. Resources covered will range from organizational tools to content-based resources and peer leaders will utilize these resources and tools in their own subject areas. | |||||
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) | 4/22/2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett 111L | 4/22/2024 | Register |
Monday Motivation (Open to all students) Start your week off right with the Learning Centers. Talk through motivation challenges, plan priority tasks for the week, maybe learn a new study strategy. | |||||
Critical Thinking (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/23/2024 | 5:40 PM - 7:00 PM | Busch Learning Center, SERC 104 | 4/22/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will learn how to teach critical thinking skills in sessions, various methods of analysis, and receive an opportunity to practice how to apply those methods while working with students. | |||||
Stress Management (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/24/2024 | 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Building 1150 B | 4/23/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will discuss and practice strategies for managing academic and non-academic needs to reduce stress within their roles, as well as from the perspective of being a student. Peer leaders will acquire stress management techniques and resources that they can share with their students, and directly implement into their practice as peer educators. | |||||
Reflection on Instructional Practices (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/25/2024 | 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Livingston Learning Center, Tillett Hall 111 NP | 4/24/2024 | Register |
Peer leaders will have time to reflect on the instructional methods and strategies that they have used over the course of the semester, and determine ways to strengthen future learning and instructional experience in the realm of academic support. | |||||
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) | 4/26/2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | College Avenue Learning Center, Academic Building 1125 | 4/19/2024 | Register |
Focus Fridays (Open to all students) Unleash your potential with a weekly group coaching program to help students enhance their focus, concentration, and productivity. This program is ongoing each Friday from 2/2 through 4/26 (with the exception of Spring Break week). | |||||
Strategies for Success: Peer-Led Support of International and Multi-Lingual Learners - Presented by the Office of International Academic Support (Peer Leaders Only) | 4/29/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM | College Ave Learning Center, Academic Bldg. 1150B | 4/28/2024 | Register |
Building awareness around our own identities and biases as student leaders is a critical component in cultivating effective and equitable peer to peer interaction. This workshop will include reflective discussion and activities to build practical skills and strategies for creative, flexible and informed engagement of international students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. By learning about and remaining cognizant of the differences within our Rutgers community, we can be better and more inclusive learners and mentors. |