1. First Year Students What’s up with that???
A Presentation by KD Maynard for Franklin Pierce University
5/17/17

2. Time Travel . . . close your eyes, and think about
What, in your first year out of high school (whether you were in college or not) absolutely CONSUMED your energy and attention?

3. Beloit College Annual Mindset list
Class of Slideshow

4. Your observations . . .
What do you see incoming Franklin Pierce first year students doing exceptionally well?
What surprises you, that you think first year students should know/do, but they don’t?
If you could cultivate three skills or habits in each first year student, what would they be?
If you could eradicate or reframe three behaviors or assumptions of first year students, what would they be?

5. Discuss, and then we’ll report out

6. Before we get to my guesses, let’s look at yours
As we look at some of the points raised - how you wish you could influence your first year students to help them be more successful - what strategies would you suggest to address the issues raised?
Please identify the issue and briefly describe your recommended approach or resource to assist your students.

7. Topics for Exploration
Time Management (urgent/important quadrants, per Steven Covey - spend most of your time on Important but Not Urgent)
Bloom’s Taxonomy (you’re asked to do more than memorize in college!)
Significant, Self- Directed Learning (Stephen Carroll and Dee Fink): metalearning and neurobiological principles
Brain-based learning videos from McMaster University
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve, with lines for frequent review
Principles of Memory - how does it work; what strategies are proven?
Multi-tasking vs. code-switching (Dave Crenshaw)

8. STRESS and Anxiety Fears of risk-taking Perfectionism
Indecision / paralysis
Performance anxiety (fears of success AND failure)
Impostor syndrome
Give up, rather than ‘bucking up’

9. TED Talk with Angela Duckworth

10. Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
INTELLIGENCE IS STATIC
Leads to a desire to look smart and therefore a tendency to…
...avoid challenges
...give up easily when faced with obstacles
...see effort as fruitless or worse
...ignore criticism or useful negative feedback
...feel threatened by the success of others
INTELLIGENCE CAN BE DEVELOPED
Leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to…
...embrace challenges
...persist in the face of setbacks
...see effort as the path to mastery
...learn from criticism
...find lessons and inspiration in the success of others
Source:

11. PERTS Growth Mindset Survey

12. What will YOU do?