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Saundra McGuire, Sixth Annual Kemper Speaker on Excellence in Teaching and Learning

On Friday, January 19 2018, Provost Julian Schuster invited the Webster University community to activities featuring the sixth Annual William T. Kemper Speaker on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Saundra Yancy McGuire.

McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice-chancellor and Professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University, and a renowned author and speaker on the topic of how to teach students to excel academically. McGuire’s work will not only serve students directly, but her talk and workshop for faculty will help instructors at Webster use specific strategies that place students in greater control of their academic success.

Webster continues to implement purposeful initiatives in support of the strategic plan, and McGuire’s expertise lends itself well to the campus-wide focus on creating a global, student-centered experience.Theme two of the strategic plan stresses the importance of providing students with opportunities for engagement, discovery and the development of competencies that will help them to be successful at Webster and beyond. Below are the PowerPoint slides from the workshop and helpful resources, in case you’d like to review helpful strategies that support student motivation.

Get Students to Focus on Learning Instead of Grades: Meta cognition is the Key!

Get Students to Focus on Learning Instead of Grades: Metacognition is the Key! (Power Point)
21st Century students come to college with widely varying academic skills, approaches to learning, and motivation levels. Faculty often lament that students are focused on achieving high grades, but are not willing to invest much time or effort in learning. This session will focus on the importance of helping students acquire simple, but effective learning strategies based on cognitive science principles. Attendees will engage in interactive reflection activities that will allow them to experience strategies that significantly improve learning while transforming student attitudes about the meaning of learning.

Focus : elevating the essentials to radically improve student learning by Mike Schmoker
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Teach Students How to Learn by Thomas Angelo (Foreword by); Stephanie McGuire (As told to); Saundra Yancy McGuire
Publication Date: 2015-10-21
Contents Saundra's journey: from traditional instructor to academic transformer -- Why don't our students already know how to learn? -- Metacognition: what it is and how it helps students become independent learners -- The power of teaching Bloom's Taxonomy and the study cycle to students -- Metacognitive learning strategies at work -- Mindset matters -- Connections between motivation, emotions, and learning -- What faculty can do to boost motivation, positive emotions, and learning -- What students can do to boost motivation, postive emotions, and learning -- Partnering with your campus learning center -- Teaching learning strategies to groups -- Teaching uprepared students.

Metacognition: The Key to Acing Courses

Adapting Unstoppable Learning by Yazmin Pineda Zapata; Rebecca Brooks
Call Number: LC4015 .Z27 2017
Publication Date: 2017-06-02

Increasing Students' Motivation

Increasing Student Motivation: Strategies That Work (PowerPoint)
Motivating today’s students to actively engage in learning activities proves challenging for most faculty. Very often millennial students do not respond as did students in the past to extrinsic motivators such as bonus quizzes and extra credit assignments. However, as James Raffini presents in 150 Ways to Increase Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom, when the psychoacademic needs of students are met in creative ways, student motivation soars. This presentation will engage faculty in a discussion of addressing student needs for autonomy, competence, relatedness, self-esteem and enjoyment in order to significantly increase student motivation.

How Learning Works by Susan A. Ambrose; Michael W. Bridges; Michele DiPietro; Marsha C. Lovett; Marie K. Norman; Richard E. Mayer (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2010

More about Saundra Yancy McGuire

https://sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/smcgui1/

McGuire has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops on metacognitive learning strategies to help students succeed at over 300 institutions in 44 states and eight countries. Prior to joining Louisiana State University (LSU), she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. Her best-selling book, Teach Students How to Learn, was published by Stylus in 2015. The student version of this book, Teach Yourself How to Learn, will be available in January 2018.

Her most recent awards include induction in 2017 into the LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction, receiving the 2017 American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students to Pursue Careers in the Chemical Sciences, and receiving the 2016 AAAS Lifetime Mentoring Award. She is an elected fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations (CLADEA).