LETS PLAY A GAME ADVISINGFRESHMAN ORIENTATION

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LETS PLAY A GAME!ADVISING/FRESHMAN ORIENTATION

• Dr. Lee Kem
• Assistant Professor
• Director, COE Advising
• Center
• Murray State University

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LEARNING

• Interactive
• Participatory
• Connecting
• Multiperspectives
• Sharing of commonalities
• Enhances Retention

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NEED FOR GAME

• LEARN BEST BY DOING
• REMEMBER WHAT WE DO
• ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE LEARNING
• INTERACTION WITH OTHERS
• STRENGTHENS SENSE OF BELONGING
• MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
• LEARNING FROM OTHER STUDENTS

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GROUP WORK ADVANTAGES

• Reinforces norms
• Reinforces positive attitudes
• Self-correction based on group feedback/sharing
• Contributes to self-understanding
• Transferable skills (work, classroom, personal)

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FACTORS IN GROUP WORK

• Instillation of hope
• Universality
• Imparting of information
• Altruism
• The corrective rcapitulation of the primary
  family group
• Development of socializing techniques
• Imitative behavior
• Interpersonal learning
• Group cohesiveness
• Yalom, 1985

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GROUP TECHNIQUES

• LINK
• LOOP
• PROCESS
• SELF-REFLECTION
• GROUP PROCESS

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GROUP LEADERSHIP FUNCTIONS

• Emotional stimulation (challenging, confronting,
  activity personal risk-taking/self-disclosure)
• Caring (offering support, affection, praise,
  protection, warmth, acceptance, genuineness,
  concern)
• Meaning Attribution (explaining, clarifying,
  interpreting, providing a cognitive framework for
  change translating feelings and experiences into
  ideas)
• Executive function (setting limits, rules, norms,
  goals, managing time pacing, stopping,
  interceding, suggesting procedures)

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GAME

• Time Management
• Differences in High School and College
• Gifted and Talented
• Motivation and Behavior for Learning
• Stress Management
• Being A College Student
• So You Want to Be a Teacher

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PROCESS

• Which game did you prefer?
• What was helpful about the game?
• What was it like to share in the group?
• Did you use the link/loop/process idea? How did
  this work in your group?
• What ideas do you have for adapting the game for
  other settings?
• How were we as a group today?