Concurrent Panel Discussions - 10:15am – 11:15am
“Current and Future Challenges in Experiential Education”Chairpersons/Directors Roundtable, E-242
Participants:Aurora Brito, Associate Director, Career and Transfer Services (Bronx Community College)
Jon Dash, Chairperson, Cooperative Education
(Borough of Manhattan Community College)Patricia Imbimbo, Director, Starr Career Development Center
(Baruch College)James R. Stellar, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
(Queens College),Francine White, Chairperson, Cooperative Education Department (LaGuardia Community College)
“The Value of Internships”
Student/Employer Panel, E-252
Participants include:Community Board 2, The Law Offices of Yoon and Hong; and current and past students of the Cooperative Education Department program
Concurrent Workshops - 11:20am - 12:20pm
“Data-Driven Program Evaluation”
William Beaufort and Stacy Perry, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
There are many challenges in evaluating experiential education programs. Some of the challenges have to do with the availability of data – often programs have more qualitative than quantitative data or not enough data at all. This presentation will focus on the evaluation of LaGuardia’s Cooperative Education program through a recent program review. The presentation will take the audience through the entire process beginning with analysis of the Department’s mission statement through an evaluation of the programs and services that support the mission statement together with the challenges and benefits of each phase of the evaluation.
“Starting Off On The Right Foot: Best Practices for Working with High
School Students”
Yusuf Abdul-Wali, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
This workshop will give participants an overview of the Fundamentals of Professional Advancement course (CEP 121) offered through the Cooperative Education Department that is specifically geared toward students in the Middle College High School Early College Program. CEP 121 helps students prepare a blueprint for their futures by helping them develop a career plan and internship learning objectives. This workshop will highlight best practices used when working with high school students in dual enrollment programs.
The workshop will highlight some of the differences between working with high school students and college students. We will also explore the professional e portfolios that the students develop which includes their personal, academic, and professional accomplishments and goals. Lastly, we'll share observations and reflections from the classes that have fostered some of our success with high school students.
Concurrent Workshops - 11:20am - 12:20pm
“Teaching Resume Writing and Interviewing Through Art”
Michelle Wang, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
The idea of teaching resume writing and interviewing skills through art comes from psychologist John Heron’s work on co-operative inquiry. The inquiry creates a research cycle among four different types of knowledge: experiential knowing, presentational knowing, propositional knowing, and practical knowing. The workshop will focus on presentational knowing and practical knowing by guiding participants to express and conceptualize their learning through art.
This workshop will use drawing to engage the audience in the entire job search process, especially resume writing and interviewing skills. For every drawing activity, small groups will be formed to share their experiences from drawing with each other and will be followed up by a large group discussion. The discussion will be based on their own drawing experience and how their drawing connects to resume writing and interview skills. From this workshop presentation, participants will have a creative view on the entire job search preparation.
“Assessing Learning Outcomes of Student Employees”
Marianna Savoca and Ursula Zalewski, Stony Brook University, SUNY
Experiential education professionals are the subject matter experts in the field; they know the research and the best practices; they advise others about how to provide and assess on-site learning opportunities, such as internships, co-ops, service learning, etc. Are we practicing what we preach with our own student employees? This session will review the steps taken at Stony Brook University - SUNY to establish a division-wide, theory-based learning outcomes plan for student employees, and we will share the results from the 2009 implementation. During the session we will review the process of creating knowledge domains, selecting the appropriate student development theories for each domain and learning outcome expectation. To make the session experiential, we will lead participants in an exercise in which they will create a desired learning goal for their student employees and determine the observable behaviors expected. The end of the one-hour session, participants will have enough knowledge to begin the process with a full resource list.
Concurrent Workshops - 11:20am - 12:20pm
“LaGuardia’s Virtual Career Center: A Demonstration of eCareer Tools”
Leslie Camacho, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
At LaGuardia Community College/CUNY we have developed a virtual career center to bridge existing career services across campus and provide students with a framework to develop a comprehensive career plan. The eCareer Central is a website that aggregates the College's career related websites into one place. The eCareer Plan is a career planning application students can use alone or as part of a class. Come join us for a demonstration of these tools and learn how they were developed and marketed. This session will conclude with a question and answer period.
“Nourishing Students and Community: A Service-Based Learning Internship”
Bette Cohen, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
For more than eight summers, LaGuardia Dietetic Technician students have donned the crimson red of Cornell University's Cooperative Extension Service and participated in a Service-Learning based Internship. Students that barely speak in class can be found engaging in dialogue-based education in the City's greenmarkets. They learn to effectively deliver "paperless" nutrition education to some of the neediest communities in New York City. The students’ primary goal in these greenmarkets is to teach community residents how to eat better by eating seasonally and buying locally. While this program, partnered with Cornell University's Cooperative Extension, greatly benefits low income neighborhoods, our students benefit also. They make educational advances that could not be accomplished in the classroom alone. Through this program students improve their communication and language skills, gain self-confidence and self-esteem and understand content on a higher level. This is accomplished through the use of dialogue-based education incorporating the philosophies of Pablo Friere (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) and Jane Vella (Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults).