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Planning Your Student Training and Enrichment Calendar

Page history last edited by Ariane Hoy 14 years, 7 months ago

There are multiple tools that the Foundation has developed for Bonner Programs to create a Training & Enrichment Calendar.  If you've already read the introduction to Student Development, that's a good start.  Then you can:

 

1)  Use this comprehensive worksheet below to plan your Student Development Training & Enrichment Calendar.

Try to build in class- or cohort-meetings at least two times per month (for freshmen though juniors, and perhaps once per month for seniors).  Try to build your calendar around the following principles:

 

  • Identify key themes for your program overall and build them into all levels (e.g., project management then becomes a first year emphasis on goal setting, a second year emphasis on facilitation, a third year emphasis on team management, and a fourth year emphasis on evaluation and transitioning leadership)
  • Weave in time to plan and apply skills in concrete projects — such as at the service sites, on-campus service events, and Cornerstone Activities (like First Year Trip, Second Year Exchange, and so on).
  • Concretely identify 3 skill/knowledge areas per semester and build around them.
  •  Worksheet-StudentDev1.doc 

 

2)  A more generative form of planning can be accomplished with the Roadmap Planning Tool.  This may be a good one to use if you want to start a little broader and/or use multiple designers (such as involving faculty, student leaders and more).

 

You walk through creating intentional learning outcomes for each level, then forge a calendar.

This Roadmap Planning Tool was developed to help guide a planning process.  It helps campuses to think through how to structure the learning and service at each level.  

 BlankNewRoadmap1.doc

See more on the Roadmap Tool here:  Roadmap Planning Tool

 

3)  Finally, here's a third, more concise version of the worksheet, with slightly different columns.  The worksheet, which was created as a follow-up activity to the Roadmap planning tool, is basically the same — but a bit streamlined.  This is a good one to use once you've got the hang of it (how to approach the planning).

 

See the template here:  TrainingCalPlanningTool.doc

and Oberlin College's example:  TrnCalOberlin.doc

 

With all these tools:

 

  1. Read the tool and take a look at some examples.
  2. Convene relevant groups of people to do the assessment (part 1); you may also want to use the Self-Assessment Tool to take stock of how integrated the developmental model is into your program at this point.
  3. Figure out who is going to be involved in designing the training sequence for each class. This can include students themselves (a good exercise can be done at a meeting, using stickies and facilitating the students' input on the topics and sequence).  Faculty and other staff (other departments or advisors) can also be involved.
  4. After those generative processes, make some decisions.  Simplify your plan to clearly articulate a handful of topics (3-5) for each semester.  Remember to cover a topic more than once and in a developmental way.  Link your trainings with practical opportunities, like conversations at sites or cornerstone activity planning.
  5. Finish out a calendar and draft it for sharing with your students.  Put it into BWBRS.  Put it in your handbook and on the wiki.  Find the relevant trainings on the Bonner Website, on campus, online, and so on.  Implement your plan.

 

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