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Library Instruction For First Year Students, Amrita Dhawan, Ching-Jung Chen Jan 2014

Library Instruction For First Year Students, Amrita Dhawan, Ching-Jung Chen

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– This paper aims to discuss the background, design and implementation of the new library instruction. When a new core curriculum for first-year students was adopted at the City College of New York in the fall of 2008, the City College Library took this opportunity to establish a new approach to teach library research to freshmen. Two library workshops were embedded into a six-credit combined content and writing course.
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– This paper documents the process by which the City College Library successfully transitioned to the new system and also reflects on the theory and practice of teaching information …


The Impact Of Demographics On 21st Century Education, Norman Eng Apr 2013

The Impact Of Demographics On 21st Century Education, Norman Eng

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Do all students need STEM education or should it be focused primarily on the mathematically and scientifically inclined? Here, demographics may hold the key to such questions from which a 21st century education model should be based on.


Developing A Community Of Practice Among Peer Leaders: The Leadership Seminar, A.E. Dreyfuss, Janet Liou-Mark, Amelise Bonhomme, Travion Joseph Jan 2013

Developing A Community Of Practice Among Peer Leaders: The Leadership Seminar, A.E. Dreyfuss, Janet Liou-Mark, Amelise Bonhomme, Travion Joseph

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The Leadership Seminar, piloted in the fall semester of 2011, is a mandatory weekly meeting for Peer Leaders at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY). Its main purpose was to create a community of practice among first-time and experienced Peer Leaders. Continued in the spring 2012 semester, the one hour session provides a setting where Peer Leaders can share their experiences, discuss problems that arise in their workshops, and further develop their leadership and professional skills


A History Of Peer-Led Team Learning, 1990-2012, A.E. Dreyfuss Jan 2013

A History Of Peer-Led Team Learning, 1990-2012, A.E. Dreyfuss

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From Workshop Chemistry in 1991 at the City College of New York, CUNY, to implementation in other disciplines and development of Peer-Led Team Learning and its Six Critical Components, this paper reviews the contributions of faculty at a variety of higher education institutions to the dissemination and growth of PLTL as a successful model of student engagement with the position of the student Peer Leader.