Michele Monaco, MS, ATC

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Millennial ATS
Michele Monaco, MS, ATC
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• Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.
  

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• 1. Coomes, M., DeBard,R., (2004). Serving the
  Millennial Generation. San Francisco
  Jossey-Bass.
  

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WHO are the MILLENIALS?

• Children of late boomers and early GenXers
• Babies on Board of the early Reagan years
• Have You Hugged Your Child Today sixth graders
  of the early Clinton years
  

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Events That Make An Impression

• 9-11
• Columbine
• Oklahoma City Bombing
• Princess Dis death
• Clinton Impeachment Trial
• O.J. Simpson Trial
• Rodney King riots
• Lewinsky scandal

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Millennials in college

• Largest most diverse generation to attend
  college
  
• Different kind of student
• Personality
• Thought process
• Educational tendencies

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Higher Ed. Notable Characteristics

• Lack of professional boundaries
• Need for immediate feedback
• Entitlement
• Lack of critical thinking
• Unrealistic expectations
• High level of parental involvement
• Howe, N., Strauss, W. Millennials Go to College,
  2003

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Millennial ATS

• Are there other characteristics of the
• Millennial ATS?

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Defining Characteristics

• Conventional
• Confident
• Special
• Sheltered
• Self-Assured
• Stressed
• Achieving
• Coomes, M., DeBard, R., (2004) Serving the
  Millennial Generation

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MILLENIALS ARE SPECIAL

• Strong parental relationships
• Parents as role models
• Many Boomer parents delayed having children until
  financially secure
  
• Helicopter parents in college
• Co-partnerships
• Academic schedules, activities ect
• Awards for participating, all winners
• Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.

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Sheltered

• What has structure done?
• Decrease independent creative thought and
  decision making skills
  
• What do they do now when mom and dad do not
  structure their day?

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Tool for success/ Sheltered

• Develop critical thinking (reverse roll play)
• Learning centered syllabus
• Generation Y needs structure to achieve
• Exact expectations for success
• Ramifications explicitly explained
• Lowery, J. W. The Millennials Come to College
  John Wesley Lowery Talks with William Strauss,
  About Campus, 2001 6 (3), 6-12

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MILLENIALS ARE CONFIDENT

• Raised by parents believing in the importance of
  self-esteem
  
• Optimistic, big dreams but no path
• Confident they will achieve, but do not have a
  plan for success
  
• Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.
  

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Confident

• Where and how?
• Easy success in HS with little effort
• Little commitment to homework
• Upset when they do not achieve A or B
• Multitask with technology
• Text messaging
• IM
• Blackberries
• Internet travel

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Tools for success/ Confident

• What can prevent demoralizing
• Teach skills to succeed
• Pre-assignments
• Quizzes PRIOR to the chapter, what do you know
  NOW? (omit grade)
  
• See learning style syllabus
• Lowery, J. W. The Millennials Come to College
  John Wesley Lowery Talks with William Strauss,
  About Campus, 2001 6 (3), 6-12

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MILLENIALS ARE TEAM-ORIENTED

• Feel safe in numbers
• Independent work means greater chance of personal
  failure.
  
• They have spent much of their time working and
  learning in groups
  
• They have established tight peer bonds
• Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.
  

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Tools for success/ team oriented

• Integrative group work with independent weight
  value
  
• safe yet gain confidence with independent work
• Have the student define expectation and context
  of the independent evaluation
  
• Lowery, J. W. The Millennials Come to College
  John Wesley Lowery Talks with William Strauss,
  About Campus, 2001 6 (3), 6-12

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MILLENIALS ARE ACHIEVING

• Strong desire to achieve, please parents
  (special) or other authority figures
  
• They have been subject to mandatory testing
• Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.
  

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Tools for Success/ Achieving

• Student expects good grades
• No longer accepts subjective means of evaluation
• Willing to challenge system to get their
  deserved grade
  
• Grade appeals policy
• Learning centered syllabus
• Lowery, J. W. The Millennials Come to College
  John Wesley Lowery Talks with William Strauss,
  About Campus, 2001 6 (3), 6-12

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MILLENIALS ARE PRESSURED

• Pressured to perform for those who will judge
• They are pushed to succeed
• They are pushed to attend college
• They are pushed to choose careers that pay off
  nicely
  
• Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.
  

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Pressured

• Causes the need for CONSTANT feedback
• Become paralyzed without explicit feedback and
  direction

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MILLENIALS ARE CONVENTIONAL

• They identify with their parents values
• They feel close to their parents
• They are rule followers (if we give them clear
  rules they can understand)
  
• expect follow through on rules
• Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.
  

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Tools for Success/ Conventional

• Integrate cross cultural learning within course
  content.
  
• Implement critical thinking skills by discussing
  the core content with various sociological
  systems.
  
• Lowery, J. W. The Millennials Come to College
  John Wesley Lowery Talks with William Strauss,
  About Campus, 2001 6 (3), 6-12

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Millennial ATS

• Define what characteristics fit them the best?

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Some agreeable pts.

• Lack of critical thinking
• Constant feedback
• Prioritizing classwork
• Proritizing clinical work (jobs ect)

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Paradigm shift

• Teaching ? facilitators of learning
• Reaching the student
• Knowing your audience

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Faculty and student practices

• Active learning
• Discussions superior to lectures
• ? retention of content
• Transfer to critical thinking
• if critical thinking is achieved, students will
  actively seek out further knowledge
  
• Chickering, A.W., and Gamson, Z.F., Seven
  Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate
  Eduation. AAHE Bulletin 1997

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Engaging the student to facilitate learning

• Lectures/ PP??
• Web based simulated learning??
• Peer teaching??
• Blogs??
• List-serv
• Simulations??
• Threaded critical thinking through case senerio,
  whole semester?

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Bottom Line.

• Architects of learning
• Delivery has changed to the needs of the student
• Feedback, set boundaries on how and when
• Integrated critical thinking for how will this
  apply
  
• Blogs
• Peer reviews
• Resourceful internet searches and responsibility
  for their own learning
  
• How to transition them to adulthood
• We may be formulating the Next Greatest
  Generation
  

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References and Resources

• 1. Coomes, M., DeBard,R., (2004). Serving the
  Millennial Generation. San Francisco
  Jossey-Bass.
  
• 2. Strauss, W., Howe, N. Generations A History
  of Americas Future, 1584 to 2069. New York
  Marrow, 1991.
  
• 3. Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Rising The
  Next Greatest Generation. New York Vintage
  Books, 1993.
  
• 4. Howe, N., Strauss W. Millennials Go to
  College. Great Falls, VA American Association of
  Collegiate Registrars and LifeCourse Associates,
  2003.
• 5. Lowery, J. W. The Millennials Come to
  College John Wesley Lowery Talks with William
  Strauss, About Campus, 2001 6 (3), 6-12.
  
• 6. Chickering, A. W., and Gamson, Z.F., Seven
  Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate
  Education. AAHE Bulletin, 1987, 39(7), 3-7.
  
• 7. National Center for Educational Statistics.
  Digest of Education Statistics, 2002.
  Washington, D.C. National Center for Educational
  Statistics, 2002. Retrieved August 5, 2005 from
  http//nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/digest02/index.asp.
• 8.Millennial Child Transforming Education in the
  Twenty-First Century (Schwartz, Eugene)
  

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