Learning Assistance Lab
 

LAL Faculty Resources

LAL Specific

Syllabus Statement

You may cut and paste the following statement into your syllabus.

Academic Support: Free subject-area tutoring, academic workshops, and academic coaching are available at Blue Bell Campus’s Learning Assistance Lab (LAL) in CH 320 (second floor Brendlinger library), and in Pottstown Campus’s LAL in South Hall 159 (inside library). The LAL helps students develop learning strategies based on their unique learning styles with the goal of creating successful students and independent learners.

LAL Liaisons

Subject-area liaisons to the Learning Assistance Laboratory work in cooperation with Learning Assistance Laboratory administrators in an effort to deliver excellent tutoring at Montgomery County Community College’s Learning Assistance Laboratories.

Teaching and Learning Links

NY Times Classroom and Curriculum Resources
http://www.nytimes.com/college/faculty/

  • Classroom Resources: A series highlighting professors from around the country and their innovative ways of teaching with The Times.
  • Curriculum Guides: A collection of guides to help you use The New York Times at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
  • The New York Times Knowledge Network: A new learning and networking platform that combines the unmatched resources of The New York Times with leading educators.

Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse
http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/

  • This guide offers information about WAC–writing across the curriculum.

International Center for Supplemental Instruction
http://www.umkc.edu/cad/SI/

  • Learn about Supplemental Instruction. SI is a peer facilitated academic support program that targets historically difficult courses so as to improve student performance and retention by offering regularly scheduled, out-of-class review sessions.

National Resource Center
Learning Communities
http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/project.asp?pid=73

  • Curricular learning communities are classes that are linked or clustered during an academic term, often around an interdisciplinary theme, and enroll a common cohort of students.

Principles of Adult Learning
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-3.htm
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-2.htm
http://emarketing.delmarlearning.com/milady/milady_news_fall05_classroom.asp

Learning Theories
http://www.learning-theories.com/

  • Paradigms
  • Behaviorist Theories
  • Cognitivist Theories
  • Constructivist, Social, and Situational Theories
  • Motivational and Humanist Theories
  • Design Theories and Models (Prescriptive)
  • Descriptive and Meta Theories
  • Identity Theories
  • Miscellaneous Learning Theories and Models

Student Development Theory Overview
http://www.reslife.cmich.edu/rama/index.php?section=Experienced_Staff&category=Intro_To_Student_Development_Theory

Teaching for the Success of all Learning Styles
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jshindl/ls/5principles.htm

Universal Instructional Design
http://ds.umn.edu/faculty/applyingUID.html

Critical Thinking Online Course
http://www.criticalthinking.org/courses/onlinecourses.cfm

  • Learn the foundations of critical thinking while incorporating them into your classes.

Using Questions Effectively in Teaching
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm#questions

Community College Teaching: The View from Inside the Classroom
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/ccs/digests/digest0307.htm

Students with Disabilities
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/strategies.html

  • Helping students with learning disabilities become more efficient and effective learners by teaching them how to learn.

Cooperative Learning
http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/

  • Using cooperative learning in the college classroom by professor Ted Panitz at Cape Cod Community College.