2004 FPG Summer Project #00237

Last Modified: Mar 26, 2004

Name	College	Department or Division
Ranae Healy	GateWay Community College	Counseling
Employee ID	E-mail Address	Work Phone
xxxxxxxx	ranae.healy@gwmail.maricopa.edu	(602) 286-8123
Project
Title		Location
Strategies for Empowering Students		Marriottsville, MD
Group Application
Applicant	College	Department
Nina Mares	GateWay Community College	Counseling
Denise Menchaca	GateWay Community College	Counseling

Project Dates and Amounts
	Summer I view timeline details	Summer II view timeline details
Timeline Dates	May 23 - May 28, 2004	(none)
Hours	40	0
Wages	$889.20	$0.00
Registration Fees	765.00	0.00
Subtotals	$1,654.20	$0.00
Total Proposal Amount		$1,654.20

Details
Abstract Write a concise overview with descriptive information about your project (location, time span, etc.) not to exceed 120 words. To take advantage of spelling and word count tools, you can compose this in a blank Word document, copy the text, and paste it in below (all formatting will be reset to normal text).
Strategies for Empowering Students Project involves a workshop. The "On Course I Workshop" is a highly experiential retreat designed to provide dozens of powerful strategies for helping students become active, responsible learners. This is a workshop designed for all college and university educators who want to help students become active, responsible, and successful learners. The workshop will take place in Marriottsville, MD from May 23-26, 2004. The price includes registration for the 4-day workshop, 3 nights' lodging, nine meals, and all workshop supplies. The only aditional cost is travel.
Purpose Explain your purpose in depth and include relevancy and components of the project. Include a statement of goals and objectives. This is what you want to do and why.
The purpose is to train counseling faculty in using new strategies for student success. GateWay Community College's Counseling Department will be implementing a new Success Program for students. It will be based on a new concept called "StrengthsQuest". The counseling faculty will be teaching, coaching and mentoring students on their strengths. The "On Course" workshop would be extremely helpful in implementing the "StrengthsQuest" program. The facilitator, Dr. Skip Downing, is an international faculty development consultant, an innovator in the field of student success, and the author of "On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, 4th Ed." This popular text is used in student success classes, first-year seminars, and college writing courses. Goals: 1. Obtain new strategies for empowering students; 2. Train other GWCC faculty on learning strategie; 3. Improve student retention and academic success; 4. Implement "On Course" textbook into the SUCCESS [StrengthsQuest]program. Objectives: 1. Learn proven strategies to help students reach their greatest potential; 2. Personal growth and renewal as a counseling faculty member.
Professional Growth Your own professional growth is a large part of your project. Your professional growth is important to you, your students, and possibly other colleagues. How will this project affect you professionally? What skills will you learn? What environment will you be working in, and how will it influence your teaching or other responsibilities?
This workshop will contribute towards our professional growth in the field of counseling. The retreat site provides a beautiful and relaxed setting that is ideal for personal growth. It will also provide an intensive exploration of new strategies for students in their learning process. This training will be useful to bring back to the GWCC campus in order to train other faculty members with new strategies in teaching. Because the Counseling Department will be implementing a brand new SUCCESS Program, using StrengthsQuest, it would be extremely helpful to obtain this training. * This project will be professionally up-lifting because I will be learning new ideas and concepts. It will be rewarding as it will be refreshing and provide needed rest and relaxation. * Skills to be learned will be based on strategies for college success for students. The skills will increase my ability to relate better to all ages and stages of college students. * We will have additional opportunity to communicate with fellow participants and previous workshop participants to explore and evaluate effectiveness of our implementation of learner-centered educational practices for empowering college students * The environment will help influence our teaching and responsibilities in cultural diversity by associating with a diversity of people from across the country.
Benefits
Select the primary area of benefit:	Benefits for students
What benefit is this project to the group checked above? What new information, ideas, attitudes, skills, appreciation, etc. will you bring back?
Benefits for Students The workshop focuses on "Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life¨. As a counselors, we facilitate these types of activities on a daily basis. The Skip Downing workshop will increase our skills as a facilitator, counselor and teacher. Thus, this transfers to the students in our daily individual contact as well as an instructor and group counselor. All students will gain from our replenishment and improvement in disseminating new ideas and concepts with exciting activities for them. Some of the new information and ideas that we will bring back to students include the following but it is not inclusive: * Creating success; Making wise choices in college and learning college customs. * Accepting Personal Responsibility; differentiating between victims and creators; mastering creator language * Discovering self-motivation; Designing a compelling life plan * Mastering Self-Management; Effective life skills. * Employing Interdependence; Critical thinking; and developing relationships. * Self-Awareness; Adopting lifelong learning; emotional intelligence. Benefits to your colleagues or department * All department faculty attending this workshop will provide consistency in implementing the new strategies and content in the new Success Program for first-time college students. * By infusing the new strategies and “strengths” concept, this will strengthen the retention efforts with first-time and continuing college students.