Beyond the Content: Elevating Peer Educator Training with the Science of Learning

This webinar gives learning center professionals who train peer educators a framework for translating the science of learning into evidence-based strategies that improve student academic performance. It is built for anyone responsible for peer tutor training, SI leader training, or other peer educator programs.

Throughout their academic careers, students are typically taught what to learn but rarely how to learn, leaving them reliant on ineffective study strategies that give rise to frustration, avoidance, and procrastination. Participants will leave with a set of training activities that map these principles to the moments peer educators actually encounter in a session, along with language for explaining them to students.

Peer educators who work this way help students build habits that transfer beyond GPA, including improved academic confidence, more efficient use of study time, and improved concentration in both lecture and independent study.

You'll leave with

• A framework for translating the science of learning into peer tutor training
• Training activities mapped to the moments peer educators actually encounter in a session
• Language peer educators can use to explain how learning works to students

Presenter

Angela Zanardelli, Director, Office of Student Success Operational Strategy, Wayne State University, and MICLCA Vice President. Angela oversees Wayne State's primary learning support services and leads the university's Student Success Collaborative. She began at Wayne State in 2007 as a Learning Specialist working at the intersection of cognition and physical wellness, later completing training through the Neuroscience and the Learning Brain Institute at UC Santa Barbara and building a program that helps staff and faculty apply cognitive neuroscience research in their work with students.

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This webinar is for MICLCA members. Registration is hosted on Zoom; you will receive the join link by email.

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