| 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. I have visited community and technical colleges, universities, private and professional schools from Massachusetts to California, Minnesota to Texas, and in Canada, as well as presenting at 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 every campus area from admissions to alumni. Each of my programs 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 for colleges are Generation NeXt Comes to College- Understanding Today's Learners and the follow-up workshop for faculty on Teaching Today's Learners. I am time flexible from a 40 minute keynote to three hour sessions. So
many schools have invited me to present the Generation NeXt program, then
asked me back for the Teaching workshop, that I now offer both in one
day of up to six hours of program time.
Below is a typical brochure description for the Generation NeXt Comes to College- Understanding Today's Learners program.
Today's young people have characteristics and expectations that present unique challenges to those of us charged with teaching, serving and supervising them through their university experience. They were, and are being, raised in very different social environments and have had very different formative experiences than any previous generation. Their issues with academic preparation, responsibility and self-esteem, consumer expectations, use of technology and styles of interacting can impact, and interfere with, their learning, persistence and academic success at school, and workplace readiness and success. This program will help faculty and staff understand the social, personal and academic traits and preferences our students bring to college, how these characteristics impact learning, persistence and success, and how we can best help our students reach their educational and personal goals.
Teaching Today's Learners 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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