Prefect Training Guide
CARLETON COLLEGE
PREFECT PROGRAM GUIDEBOOK
2007-08
Academic Support Center
203 Scoville (Back-ASC)
One North College Street
Northfield, MN 55057
Table of Contents
Welcome to the Program
- Program Mission
- Prefect Job Description
- People Involved in the Program
- Fast Facts About the Prefect Program
Part One: Starting Up
1. Before the Term Starts
- Getting on the payroll
- Timesheets
- Disciplinary Procedures
- Supervisors
Introduce Yourself to the Professor
2. Tasks to Accomplish During the First Week of the Term
3. More About Your First Few Sessions
- The Focus of the Session
- Ending the Session
4. More About Creating an Email Distribution List and Your Excel Attendance Spreadsheet
5. Confidentiality
6. Some Final Remarks
Part Two: How People Learn
- How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Edgar Dale’s Cone of Learning
- Collaborative Learning
- A Few Ways to Promote Active Learning in Your Sessions
- Give practice quizzes and problems
- Require students to write
- One-minute informal writing
- Think-pair-share
- Brainstorming
- Concept Mapping
- Demonstrations
- Case Studies and Real-World Events and Issues
- Role Playing
- Student Debates/Discussion Panels
- Games
Part Three: Ways to Facilitate Learning
- The Prefect’s Dilemma
- Feedback
- Learning Skills
- Learning from textbooks
- Learning from homework, especially problem sets
- Learning from exams
- Nomenclature: Learning the Language of the Discipline
- Problem-Solving Strategies
- Ten Tips for Teaching Problem-Solving Skills
Part Four: Session Management and Special Situations
- Large Review Sessions
- Working with the Course Professor
- Working with Students in the Course
- Campus Resources
- Refer, Refer, Refer…
- Last but Not Least, We Appreciate Your Involvement!
Part One: Starting Up
Before the term starts, tasks to accomplish during the first week, more about your first few sessions, more about creating an email distribution list and your Excel attendance spreadsheet, and confidentiality.Part Two: How People Learn
How people learn, Bloom's taxonomy, Edgar Dale's Cone of Learning, collaboratie learning, and a few ways to promote active learning in your sessions.Part Three: Ways to Facilitate Learning
The prefect's dilemma, feedback, learning skills, nomenclature, and problem-solving strategies.Part Four: Session Management and Special Situations
Large review sessions, working with the course professor, working with students in the course, campus resources, and referring students to other campus resources.Welcome to the Program
Program mission, prefect job description, people involved in the program, and fast facts about the program.









