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Turning Challenges into Strategies</B></I></div> <div> Dr. Susan Riemer Sacks,</div> <div> Barnard College, Columbia University</div> <div> <A HREF="id75_m.htm#for_driving_directions" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Seminars"><U><I>For Driving Directions</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Spring 2009</U></B></div> <div> <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 2009ECCSSA Conference Overview"><U><I><B><U>ECCSSA Conference</U></B></I></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>Global Education: Teaching Community College Students Respect for Life and Human Dignity through Humanitarian Law and Conflict Management,</B></I></div> <div> American Red Cross-Fisher, Batton & Weldon</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Responding to Violent Conflict: Promote Respect for Life and Human Dignity through Humanitarian Law:Seminar for Students</B></I></div> <div> American Red Cross-Fisher, Batton & Weldon</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>READ#@%&*!!: Reading Across the Curriculum Part 2-Book Talks and Spring Book Festival</B></I></div> <div> Nayak, King, Bobrow & Braithwaite</div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Fall 2008 & Spring 2009 Seminars</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>Fall 2008</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>“</B></I><I><B>Engaging Learners: Turning Challenges into Strategies”</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Dr. Susan Riemer Sacks, Presenter</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Professor of Psychology and Director of Education Initiatives</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Barnard College, Columbia University</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="362ad070.gif" border=0 width="173" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Friday, November 14, 2008</B></div> <div> <B>1:00pm to 4:00pm</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Center for Innovative Technology</B></div> <div> <B>Briefing Room, 2214 Rock Hill Road</B></div> <div> <B>Herndon, VA 20170</B></div> <div> <B>___</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Seminar Overview</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Professor Susan Riemer Sacks plans an active session where colleagues work together to address dilemmas they confront in the classroom or college. A model for challenge-solving and option-seeking will be discussed and implemented.</div> <bR> <div> Professor Sacks will provide several cases or vignettes for group consideration. Participants should also come prepared to describe briefly a current, student-related dilemma. Participants will leave with new strategies and approaches to handle the challenges they face during<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>the academic year.</div> <div> In this interactive seminar, we will address the following questions:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>What are the major challenges which hinder student progress?</B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>How can faculty help students balance work and school commitments?</B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>How can faculty handle achievement and test taking anxiety?</B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>What are techniques for engaging reticent students?</B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>How can we enhance student motivation? Commitment?</B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>What approaches work best for generating discussions?</B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>What are the options for measuring mastery of material?</B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><I><B>What really facilitates learning?</B></I></div> <bR> <div> In this session we look forward to renewing faculty and staff energy to deal with issues they confront throughout the academic year.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>About the Presenter</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Susan Riemer Sacks, Ph.D.,</B></I> is Professor of Psychology and Director of Education Initiatives at Barnard College. In 2005, she was named Professor of Education Emerita when she retired as Director of the Education Program which she chaired for over 30 years. Today, she continues<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>to teach her signature Educational Psychology course and a senior seminar on Adolescent Psychology. From 1993 until 2003, she directed the Institute for Urban Education, which involved seventh grade and college students and teachers studying forest ecology<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western" > in New York City and at Black Rock Forest. Professor Sacks helped write and gain funding for the Bronx High School of Law and Finance, a New Visions/New Century small school, which she serves as Barnard’s liaison. In 2003, she founded the New Teacher Ne</FONT>twork which meets bi-monthly to support urban teachers. </div> <bR> <div> Her research and publications involve the study of women and girls making transitions from students to teachers, from teachers to mentors, from pre-teens to thirteen, from dependent to interdependen<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western" >t. She has continually studied the psychological factors which support self-determined change. Her current work examines girls’ and boys’ attitudes in science classrooms, and she has helped implement a science curriculum to study the effects of pollution</FONT> using sandtank models of plumeflow.</div> <bR> <div> Two recent works include:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I> </I></FONT><I>“</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western" ><I>Urban Hurdles and Creative Strategies: Striving to Teach the Children”</I></FONT> in<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>Taking Teaching Seriously, 2007,</B> edited by C. Bjork, D.K. Johnston, and H. Ross, Paradigm Publishers; and<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> "</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western" ><I><B>Seeking the Right Fit: From Training Bras to Self-Identity, Adolescents’ Search for Self,"</B></I> a paper presented at St. Anne’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, England, July 2006. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> As a licensed psychologist, Sacks has led women’s groups, completed post doctoral study in group psychotherapy, and used her skills for participative, feminist classrooms. She has served as Co-Chair of the Women’s Studies Department, as Chair of the Open Symposium of Research in Psychology and Women of the American Psycholog<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080" FACE="Arial Unicode MS" >ical Association, Div. 35; and as Coordinator of the first Scholar and Feminist Conference at Barnard in 1973. She was elected into the Hall of Fame for Cleveland Heights High School and for the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She has devoted her efforts at Barnard to teaching and to educating teachers for urban classrooms to be equipped and knowledgeable about the psychology of learning and development and sensitive to the needs of students for equity and fairness.</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>For more information, please contact:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><B>Rosalyn M. King, Chair, at roking@nvcc.edu, 703-450-2629;</B></div> <div> <I><B> or, your </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000080" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I><B>Campus Representatives:</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>James Baer and Mary Hanrahan</B></I> (NVCC-AL)<I><B>; Gerald Boyd, Trudy Gillevet, and Nan Peck</B></I> (NVCC-AN)<B>;</B><I><B> Chris Blake</B></I> (NVCC-LO)<I><B>; Laura Bhadra and Pat Lazzarino</B></I><I> (NVCC-MA);</I><I><B> Patricia Ottavio</B></I> (NVCC-MEC)<I><B>; Barbara Gershman and Barbara Marotta</B></I> (NVCC-WO)<I><B>; Joan Trabandt</B></I> (ELI)<I><B>;</B></I> <I><B>Randy Beckham and Terry Rooker</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>(GCC-Fredericksburg & Locust Grove)<I><B>;</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT><I><B>Nicole Martin, Curtis Morgan and Joan Osborne</B></I> (LFCC).<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>___</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I> <A NAME="for_driving_directions"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>For Driving Directions:</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <FORM ACTION="http://clients.mapquest.com/trellix/mqcustomconnect" METHOD=POST TARGET="_top"> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="screen" VALUE="find"> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="link" VALUE="results"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="streetaddress" MAXLENGTH=50 VALUE="2214 Rock Hill Road"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="city" maxlength=50 value="Herndon"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="state" MAXLENGTH=2 SIZE=5 VALUE="VA"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="zip" MAXLENGTH=10 SIZE=15 VALUE="20170"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="country" MAXLENGTH=50 VALUE="USA"> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Show Location on Map"> </FORM>  </div> <bR> <div> For directions, type in your starting address:</div> <div>  <FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="http://clients.mapquest.com/trellix/mqtripplus" TARGET="_top"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="OPC" VALUE="null"> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD WIDTH=100>Street Address:</TD> <TD WIDTH=100> <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=ADDR_ORIGIN VALUE="" SIZE=20 MAXLENGTH=30> </TD> </TR> <TR><TD>City:</TD> <TD> <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=CITY_ORIGIN VALUE="" SIZE=20 MAXLENGTH=30> </TD> </TR> <TR><TD>State:</TD> <TD> <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=STATE_ORIGIN VALUE="" SIZE=20 MAXLENGTH=2> </TD> </TR> <TR><TD>Zip (Optional):</TD> <TD> <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=ZO VALUE="" SIZE=20 MAXLENGTH=10> </TD> </TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=2> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="DPC" VALUE="null"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="ADDR_DESTINATION" VALUE="2214 Rock Hill Road"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="CITY_DESTINATION" VALUE="Herndon"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="STATE_DESTINATION" VALUE="VA"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="ZD" VALUE="20170"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="POIRad" VALUE="0.5"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="POIRadUnits" VALUE="mi"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="MPOICAT1" VALUE="1"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="quest_mode" VALUE="trek"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="results_display_mode" VALUE="overview">  </TD></TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN="center"> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Calculate Directions"> </TD></TR> </TABLE> </FORM>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="30c2e2b0.gif" border=0 width="302" height="43" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3b340430.gif" border=0 width="576" height="835" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="3b440b30.gif" border=0 width="576" height="435" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="30c2e2b0.gif" border=0 width="302" height="43" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3b540190.gif" border=0 width="576" height="281" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="30c2e2b0.gif" border=0 width="302" height="43" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3b840560.gif" border=0 width="576" height="854" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="3ba40910.gif" border=0 width="576" height="657" ALT="Microsoft Office Word Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>