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Transforming Challenge into Clarity:  What College Instructors Can Do to Create Good Comprehension and Critical Thinking in Their Classrooms

Want to improve thinking in your courses?  If so, then you will enjoy breakfast, discussion, and workshop among colleagues on Friday, June 18th from 8:30 am until noon in the Flynn Campus Center Brighton Room (3-217) when MCC will host Dr. Patricia Mulcahy-Ernt.  This interactive workshop will:

a. Present research-supported instruction concerning schema theory and the importance of prior knowledge

b. Discuss the key characteristics of “informational”/expository text in terms of what readers need to do to make sense of informational passages

c. Examine the hierarchies of questions from the literal to inferential to applied/critical to see what instructors expect students to be able to think about and do

d. Explore some instructor strategies that will focus on helping students understand informational text

Dr. Mulcahy-Ernt is a professor at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Director of Graduate Studies in Literacy and English Education and the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.  She is a recognized scholar and leader in the field of post-secondary reading and will be brought to MCC by the Reading Committee. 

RSVP to Sylvia Lavin <mailto:slavin@monroecc.edu> x3195 by June 16th.

Agenda for June 18th:
8:00 am Registration
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am to Noon Workshop with Dr. Mulcahy-Ernt

Judi Salsburg Taylor
Transititonal Studies
06/14/2010