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Training Family Science Faculty In Core Communication, Crystal Duncan Lane, Kimberly Dawn Doudna, Jou-Chen Chen

Instructional Development Grants

As a whole and regardless of major, university graduates with interpersonal competence (also defined as soft skills) are viewed as more employable (Finch, Hamilton, Baldwin, & Zehner, 2013; Robles, 2012), yet interpersonal competence is not often recognized as a part of discipline specific knowledge (Chamorro-Premuzic, Arteche, Bremner, Greven, & Furnham, 2010). While important to employability in general, interpersonal competence is particularly crucial for those students in social science majors who intend to have a career serving individuals and families.

The Family Science (FS) program in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences directly addresses the need for interpersonal competence through …

Empowering Nursing Students For Success, Mary Ann Stark

Instructional Development Grants

With a grant from the Western Michigan University Office of Faculty Development, we were able to offer students a small stipend to work with faculty who helped them identify academic and personal issues that impede success. Upper level students were hired as Navigators to help the student scholars achieve success. All scholars in the program passed and progressed in the nursing program. This program was called the Marie Gates Scholars Program in honor of our previous BSON director who valued and supported diversity in nursing.

Rehmer Encaustic Mixed Media Workshop, Christina Chin

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Encaustic Mixed Media Workshop taught by artist Sarah Rehmer.

Short term Objectives:

• To develop my versatility and expertise with encaustic materials, tools, and processes
• To determine potential ways to customize encaustic media and processes for accessibility to the K-12 arena

Tadoku: Extensive Reading In Japanese, Rika Saito

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Tadoku or ER refers to “many readings” “reading a lot,” the idea of which in foreign/second language teaching has been practiced and theorized since 1950 in the US and Europe. In Japan, ER classes and promotional events, such as workshops and presentations for instructors, are sponsored by a Non-profit organization “Tagengo Tadoku” or “Tadoku Supporters.” This organization was established in 2002 by Japanese educators who originally explored effective reading methods in English language education. Tadoku Supporters later developed ER methods in Japanese.

I attended one of their organized workshops and observed a class in Japan to learn how to create …