Submitted by Cheryl Lowry:
Supervisors, here’s an easy way to enhance your efforts to offer educationally purposeful employment: Enroll your new student assistants in Teaching & Learning’s Student Assistant Training Program (SAT).
The program consists of two non-credit Carmen courses: Workplace Communication and iSkills. Students have two semesters to complete the courses, but most do it in only one.
Workplace Communication (takes about 4 hrs)
- Teaches how to prevent and resolve conflict by treating others as though they are
likable, competent and important. - Covers communication with co-workers and supervisors, as well as with patrons.
- Uses elements of students’ current jobs to help prepare them for their future careers.
iSkills (takes about 6 hours)
- Teaches most of the information literacy knowledge and skills covered by the Libraries’ instructional ebook, Choosing and Using Sources, which has had over 2 million uses.
- Prepares student assistants for college research tasks and research tasks in professional careers.
Weekly reports from SAT Program staff keep you up to date about your students’ progress.
Your part in all of this?
- Enroll student assistants at go.osu.edu/satenrollment.
- Encourage students to finish. Supervisor’s’ expectations MATTER.
Questions? Please contact Cheryl Lowry at lowry.92.
