Dates:
July 18 - July 31, 2010
 For College-Bound 2010 Graduates
2010 Tuition, Room & Board: $2,700
Financial Aid IS Available!
Have you already been admitted to a college or university? High-potential students with learning differences-especially those that stem from AD/HD-often face unanticipated difficulties in the first semester of college, and may be at risk for failure. The problems these students face may arise not from a lack of academic abilities, but because of the challenges involved in adjusting to a profoundly
different educational context that requires particular skills and strategies.
In Landmark College's Transition Program, students are immersed in a living/learning college experience. Students take three linked courses taught by experienced faculty members at Landmark College. They also make use of campus resources — such as the Drake Center for Academic Support — to work on individual learning needs, as well as academic planning. Extracurricular activities and evening events supplement the residential component of the program. These are overseen by trained professional Resident Deans and a Resident Assistant staff.
The Transitions Program helps prepare students for the often difficult transition from high school to college, and from home to the residence hall. Students will be introduced to college-level work and academic strategies. They will develop an understanding of their learning strengths and needs, and discover what kinds of resources and self-advocacy will support their success in college.
To support a smooth transition to their next college or university, students will be guided to review the support services offered at the institution they will attend in the fall. Each student will also be encouraged to develop a plan of action for the first semester of college.
Curriculum
Students in the Transitions Program take the same three courses and series of workshops, which are intended to introduce them to college-level work and to the learning strategies required to meet academic expectations. Together, these courses and workshops are designed to help students:
- Discover strategies for working with the different types of teaching styles and formats they will experience in college
- Become familiar with the requirements for academic writing, including structure and organization, diction, and mechanics
- Practice process strategies for approaching academic writing tasks
- Review and practice the study skills essential for success in introductory college courses, including note-taking, active reading, test-preparation, and time-management
- Explore the nature of learning disabilities in general, including the neurological basis of learning disabilities and AD/HD, and the public laws that cover learning disabilities at the postsecondary level
- Discover personal learning strengths and difficulties as the basis for strategy development, self-advocacy, and the use of college resources
- Create a plan of action to support the transition to college
Summer 2010: Required Courses and Workshops
College Lecture in Cognitive Psychology
This course will cover two weeks of a typical, introductory college course in Cognitive Psychology. Topics to be addressed in the course will include the neural
bases
of cognition, perception, attention, and memory. Students will learn discipline-specific terminology, examine both classic and current issues in human cognition, and apply concepts to their own cognitive processes and learning styles. In addition, students will be introduced to the challenges of adapting to a lecture teaching style and handling a college-level reading load. They will have the opportunity to prepare for and take a unit exam, and then analyze their performance to identify areas of strength and relative weakness. This class is linked directly to the course in reading and study skills.
Course in Reading and Study Skills
This course focuses on the study skills and active reading strategies that college-level content work requires, and on helping students develop individual strategies for mastering the material in college courses. Particular attention is paid to materials organization using Landmark’s Master Notebook system, active-reading strategies, note-taking strategies, and test preparation. The course incorporates a post-test analysis of performance on the college content course unit test designed to help students identify essential strategies for the future.
Course in College Writing
A major focus of the course in college writing is for students to develop an individual sense of their strengths and difficulties as writers. Students will draw upon information covered in the college lecture and workshops in cognition and learning differences. They will explore standard ways of organizing college-level, academic papers and experiment with writing-process strategies in the areas of generating, organizing, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, drafting, and editing. Students will also develop their own approaches to writing as a process.
Workshops in Cognition and Learning Differences
This series of workshops will introduce key content and activities related to learning disabilities, assistive technology, AD/HD, the neurological basis of learning differences, and the laws related to LD and AD/HD in college settings. The workshops maintain an overall focus on the development of self-understanding and self-advocacy.
For more information about the 2010 program, please contact the admissions office at 802.387.6718, or email admissions@landmark.edu.
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