Martha Lanaghen

Next Step to Teach at the Next Level

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No matter what your current role you have the opportunity to teach other people.  Whether through small one-on-one moments, or in large-group settings where you are officially a “teacher.”

The challenge in these situations is that so often we assume the lesson is learned by just telling the information — and that is rarely the case.

Dr. Eric Mazur, recently spoke at the Turning Technologies Users Conference in San Diego.  His program reiterated the importance of peer-to-peer teaching.  Even something as simple as asking someone to paraphrase information back to you, can have a profound impact on what they learn, and how long they remember it.
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Martha Lanaghen

Graduate Placement — Maximizing Career Service Staff Skills

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We CAN do it all — the question is, can we do it all well?

We hire people who are passionate about helping students, nurturing their confidence, and preparing them for interviews.

This same advisor is then also required to make countless cold calls to employers to identify new job leads, attend dozens of networking events, write and mail letters to employers, etc.

We ask them to be social worker and cold-caller — two disparate functions that rarely reside comfortably in the same person, creating a career services function that is not likely to fire on all cylinders.

Consider the environment where these conflicting tasks are broken into two positions — a community outreach person (employer relations focused on finding and generating job leads), and a student-facing advisor.   By separating the employer relations function — you will empower the advisors to focus on excelent student relationships and job search skills, and improve their job satisfaction — and likely increase graduate preparedness. Read more