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

1. Program Mission
2. Prefect Job Description
3. People Involved in the Program
4. 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

1. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
2. Bloom’s Taxonomy
3. Edgar Dale’s Cone of Learning
4. Collaborative Learning
5. 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

1. The Prefect’s Dilemma
2. Feedback
3. Learning Skills

• Learning from textbooks
• Learning from homework, especially problem sets
• Learning from exams

1. Nomenclature: Learning the Language of the Discipline
2. Problem-Solving Strategies

• Ten Tips for Teaching Problem-Solving Skills

Part Four: Session Management and Special Situations

1. Large Review Sessions
2. Working with the Course Professor
3. Working with Students in the Course
4. Campus Resources
5. Refer, Refer, Refer…
6. Last but Not Least, We Appreciate Your Involvement!