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Hed 688 First-Year Experience
Hed 688 First-Year Experience
Hed 688 First-Year Experience
Lizz Giordano
First-Year Experience
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Coaching
› Meet with Instructor or Peer Mentor
biweekly or monthly
› Discuss progress in classes and talk
about each activity set
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Reflections
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Activity #1: Knowing Self & Your Story
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Activity #2: Holistic Wellness
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Activity #3: Strengths & Meaningful Work
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Activity #4: Career & Major Exploration
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Activity #6: Purpose, Reframing, and
Building your Team
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Final Project: Your Life Designed
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Why Life Design in FYE?
› Help students early on in designing their
life
› Can help retain students
› Can help students declare a major
sooner
› Students will use on campus resources
earlier and more frequently
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Steps needed to Implement this
into FYE Course?
› Propose the activities and life design
coaching to FYE office
› Pilot with one or two FYE Courses to
assess and evaluate effectiveness
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Training needed
› Have all FYE Instructors complete the
Life Design Training before teaching the
course
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Offices to Include in Course
› Academic Advising/Exploratory Advising
› Career Development
› Leadership Coaching
› First-Year Experience
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References
Burnett, B., & Evans, D. (2016). Designing your life: How to build a well-lived,
joyful life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Johnson, W. H., & Delph, M. (2017). 8th Life Design Catalyst Coach Training
Program. Unpublished training manual from the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
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