| Programs / Formats / Descriptions
I am dedicated to helping faculty and staff better understand and improve their skills in working with students for learning, development, civic behavior and workplace readiness. While I make my literature available and offer links to other resources (see the Resources / Links page) I am most effective when offering programs and workshops at schools and conferences. My sessions are customized to the needs of each school or group. I have visited community and technical colleges, universities, private and professional schools from Massachusetts to California, and Minnesota to Texas, as well as conferences across the country. I often present to the entire faculty, staff and administration of colleges, and have offered workshops to faculty, student services, enrollment management, strategic planning and other school groups. Everything is customized to meet the needs of your school; student population, mission, size and audience. Conference and meeting programs have been offered to faculty discipline groups, student affairs generalist and specialist groups, business and administrative groups.
My two most popular programs are Generation NeXt Comes to College and the follow-up workshop for faculty on Postmodern Pedagogy. Schedules that are working best for schools are a half-day (three hours) of the Generation NeXt program including or not including and an introduction to the Postmodern Pedagogy material. So many schools are having me in for the Generation NeXt program, then asking me back for the Postmodern Pedagogy workshop that I now offer both in one day.
Below is a typical brochure description for the Generation NeXt Comes to College program.
The young people of Generation NeXt, who are entering college today, have characteristics and expectations that present unique challenges to those of us charged with shepherding them through higher education, especially those of us from the Baby Boom and other, different generational cohorts. As the first truly post-modern generation they were raised in a different social environment and have had very different formative experiences than any previous generation.
To effectively retain and teach them it is incumbent on us to understand who they are and how they got to be the way they are, their unique challenges, and our best methods of teaching and serving.
This presentation will describe Generation NeXt in their generational context with the recent generational cohorts, describe post-modern influences and social characteristics, and illustrate how college faculty and staff, in a learning centered college environment, can best help these young people reach their educational and personal goals.
Postmodern Pedagogy is my follow-up for faculty; a workshop on practical skills for facilitating meaningful student learning in and out of the classroom. This active session describes, illustrates and allows participants to experience and make plans to apply concrete and immediately useful methods to increase student engagement, activity, responsibility for their own learning, and personal ownership of class goals and desired outcomes. See my Data / Feedback page for outcome numbers on this session- 84% of attending faculty report that they intend to use more active learning techniques!
For meetings and conferences I generally offer a keynote/ plenary session of at least an hour, and follow-up workshop or break-out session. I have also offered half-day conference and pre-conference sessions, and full-day faculty trainings. There is so much variation in meeting needs and schedules I encourage you to contact me at mark@taylorprograms.com or call 501 626-5889 to discuss your program needs.
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