ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT YOUR TRANSITION TO COLLEGE?
Good news! Gordon is offering a free pilot program for any students who struggle in these ways, including students with Aspergers, non-verbal learning disability, traumatic brain injury, social anxiety, or any other concerns that cause challenges in this area.
The purpose of this program is to provide a flexible support system that includes academic assistance, career planning, independent living skills, counseling, peer mentoring, and social events and instruction. The goal of the project is to determine the effect of this type of service on an overall positive college experience and to determine which services are most helpful to students.
If you are interested in signing up for the program, you can do so through the course registration section of GC101. The program is listed under Optional/Alternate courses, as IDS 102 Foundations of Academic and Community Transitions. There is no cost to be part of this program.
If you have any immediate questions or would like more detailed information, please feel free to contact me, Noelle Donahue, the director of the project.
With kind regards,
M.S.W., Ed.S. School Psychologist
EDU 175 Applications of Learning Theory, 2 credits
One of the major adjustments to college is transitioning from high school academics to the demands of college scholarship. To help you in this transition, Gordon offers a 2 credit course called NON175, Applications of Learning Theory. This course is both theoretical and practical—you won’t just hear about how to study, but will apply it to your own classes as well. The goal of the class is for students to learn to understand principles of learning and how they can use them to optimize their personal learning in college. This course examines topics from learning theory such as memory, metacognition, and higher order thinking and assists students to apply them to personal learning. Students learn to create study and exam preparation plans, apply different levels of thinking to learning, create a system of self management, understand the implications of learning styles and apply principles of active learning to reading and listening tasks.
To sign up, look for Optional Courses and select NON175.