34th Annual Conference on the First Year Experience Monday, February 9, 2015 Denver, CO Decipher this: Dear Val, As I prepare to attend the FYE SIT con next week will you please be sure to take care of my rat. I will be flying from MGM to DEN and staying at the conference hotel. Jbl has all the pps notes that you may need for reference points. Also, I thought I’d share that when I was on maS yesterday at the bx, I saw they had toboggans and thought you may want to know. Cheers -­‐ lmk Higher Level Thinking -­‐ work Count the Vowels Dollar Bill Dice Tricycle Four leaf clover Hand Six-­‐pack Seven up Octopus Cat lives Bowling pins Football team Dozen eggs Unlucky Friday Valentines day Quarter hour Harvey Daniel’s book, Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups (Stenhouse 2002). —  Discussion Director
Develop Questions —  Illuminator
Passages aloud UNIV Topics —  Word Watcher Context So what? —  Connector —  Summarizer
Your Turn —  Get into small groups —  Identify a story with which all of you are familiar. —  What are three themes from the story. —  What are key words you remember…phrases? —  So what —  Everyone ID some topics in University Success, Educational Planning, or Transition courses: Make the connecGons —  Story Theme
UNIV Theme So what… how does this relate to your success at AUM? Thank you Any Questions Dr. Lee Farrow Professor of History Director for the Center for Learning and Teaching AUM Connected: Common Reading Program Committee Chair [email protected] Dr. Lisa Marie Kerr Associate Provost Enrollment Management and Student Success [email protected]