Success Workshops

Metacognition and You

Presenter: Shala Spence, NEAAAT Instructional Coach

Learn why Metacognition is important and how it can help you. In order to become an independent learner, your most first understand how you think. Student will build organizational and planning skills while learning how to make S.M.A.R.T. goals. These skills will also be used to teach students how to build effective, collaborative teams.

Setting S.M.A.R.T Goals

Presenters: Shala Spence, NEAAAT Instructional Coach

The acronym S.M.A.R.T. is used to help students create and achieve their goals. By developing action goals and setting action items, students learn how to make goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. Guiding students to set and work towards goals can be a game changer for showing both academic and personal growth.

"Music Soothes My Soul"

Presenter: Joseph Hedley, NEAAAT Instructional Coach

Learning how to play a musical instrument has been proven to reduce stress, increase productivity, develop creativity, and build confidence. It can also improve long-term memory and lead to better brain development for those who start at a young age. This workshop teaches importance of music in daily life for healthy mental and spiritual wellbeing. It is a brief introduction to music theory and how to play the Ukulele. By the end of this workshop every student should be able to play 'I Lava You' from the Disney Pixar digital short "Lava".

Poverty in America/Food Waste

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Is poverty in america a never-ending war? Surveys from the USDA estimated that 12.3% of US households had insufficient food supplies in 2016. This means that approximately 15.6 million households had difficulty providing enough food for their families due to a lack of resources. Rates of food insufficiencies were substantially higher than the national average for households with incomes near or below the Federal poverty line. How can we, as a NEAAAT community, create community-based projects to help?

National Women's History Month

Presenters: Shala Spence, NEAAAT Instructional Coach

The 2018 National Women’s History theme presents the opportunity to honor women who have shaped America’s history and its future through their tireless commitment to ending discrimination against women and girls. The theme embodies women working together with strength, tenacity and courage to overcome obstacles and achieve joyful accomplishments.

Lucid Dreaming as Metacognition

Presenter: Shala Spence, NEAAAT Instructional Coach

Typically when we dream we are not aware that what we are experiencing is occurring only in our mind. Although the contents of our dreams can be illogical, confusing and bizarre, most of us generally just go along through the experience, but not arriving at the level of awareness where we understand that we are currently immersed in a dream. However, as more people are discovering, it is possible to become conscious that we are dreaming while dreaming; this is the phenomenon known as lucid dreaming.

The ability to control a conscious cognitive process, and play a role in self-reflection, is a characteristic of both lucid dreamers and metacognition. Are YOU a lucid dreamer? Could lucid dreaming and metacognition possibly have the same origin?

What is 3D printing and how does it work?

Presenter: Elton Stone, ECSU Faculty

During these workshop days, MetaLab students will have an opportunity to learn how to use the TinkerCAD software to to produce complex (functional) shapes that will be 3D printed. This digital design process is based on data that will be generated using a 3D scanner. Students will be permitted to take their created products home.

Your "Bizarro" Self

Presenter: Joseph Hedley, NEAAAT Instructional Coach

Bizarro is a fictional super villain, published by DC Comics, that was created as a mirror image of Superman. He has often been portrayed as an antagonist of Superman, occasionally taking on an anti-hero role. How would you define your opposite personality? What exactly does it mean to be your own person? Students will construct a self-assessment inventory to help them gauge where they stand and where they may need some help.