Professional Development Seminar Series
Porter and Chester
Worcester, MA
8:30 am - 12:00 Noon
Seminar # 1: Financial Literacy
Empowering your students to understand the student loan process and repayment of their loans and creating a realistic budget.
- Understanding student loan repayment
- Learn about repayment plan options
- Track and manage student loans
- Learn about the consequences of default
- Create and maintain a budget
- Learn about credit
- Manage debt
- Recognize warning signs of financial trouble
Who should attend:
Financial Aid Personnel
Presented by:
Jennifer Pearl | Regional Student Loan Manager
New England Tractor Trailer Training School (NETTTS)
Seminar # 2: Retention
Teaching strategies your school should utilize to target student engagement.
What teaching strategies does your school use to target student engagement? This seminar will provide an overview and teaching strategies including: authentic problems, concrete experiences, and desired outcomes within your school's classrooms. The seminar introduces participants to adult learner motivation. Dean will present best teaching instructional techniques which will address:
- Lessons (which have) clear achievable aims and short-term objectives.
- A variety of activities including practical work, activity-based learning, and the positive use of life experiences (yours and students).
- Your teachers (setting) high expectations and teaching adults to think for themselves and work independently, putting an emphasis on career training.
- Questioning (which is) quick-fire, lively and gets all involved.
- Humor- used to good effect and to relieve tension.
- Utilizing feedback (focusing) on how work could be improved by specific steps.
Participants will receive handouts describing various teaching techniques, worksheets for designing classroom lessons, and a module based approach to assist school instructors to be more engaging and effective within the classroom.
Who should attend:
Faculty
Presented by:
Dean Graziano, JD., Right Fit Consulting
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