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 ServicesThe function of the LEAD Office is to assist students in various academic/educational ways. Below is a glimpse of each service offered.Individualized Academic Based CounselingThe LEAD Office provides free confidential individual counseling appointments with a learning skills counselor to help students achieve academic success. This service is available to all Western University students. Learning skills counseling is for all students. Individual counseling can benefit both successful students who want to further improve performance or increase efficiency by learning new study strategies, as well as students who are experiencing academic difficulties. For students experiencing academic difficulties, it is strongly advised that they arrange a counseling appointment as soon as possible. Students may sign up for this service themselves or be referred by a professor or staff member. Making An Appointment Appointments can be made in person at the LEAD Office in the Health Sciences Center building, Room 101, by calling 909-469-5325, or by submitting a couseling request online. Appointments are typically 50 minutes in length. Referrals From Faculty And Staff Faculty and staff can refer students for learning skills counseling. When there is an immediate problem of some urgency, faculty and staff are advised to contact a counselor in Learning Skills Services by calling 909-469-5325 so that the appointment can be expedited. Alternatively, the student can be sent to the LEAD Office or invited to sign up online.Academic and Assessment TestingEver ask yourself questions like these?
WorkshopsLEAD Office personnel plan and implement group workshops to enhance learning skills each year for all students involved in a Western University program. As an example, workshops include time management, learning styles, test taking, critical thinking, and stress and anxiety management. Additional learning enrichment forums, workshops, and the establishment of on-campus reviews for course exams or licensing/certifying examinations are developed by LEAD staff in response to the expressed needs and interests of students. Select this link to view our LEAD Workshop Schedule. You do not need to sign up in advance to attend any of our workshops. Back to the Top of the PageHandoutsThe LEAD Office also prepares and distributes handouts to students on learning styles, time management, group study, processing information, memory, test preparation, group study, anxiety and stress management, listening, reading strategies, note taking, comprehension, critical reading and thinking and more. Click on the Handouts link here or in the sidebar menu to download topics that interest you. Back to the Top of the PageTutoringThe LEAD Office administers the Tutorial Assistance Program (TAP), working with tutors, tutees, and faculty as a team. TAP provides supplemental academic instruction for students facing academic difficulty. Competent and sensitive peer tutors, recommended by the faculty from each college, facilitate course content instruction. Students are scheduled individually or in small groups to work with a tutor. The LEAD Office works closely with the tutors and tutees during the tutoring process to ensure that effective tutoring is maintained. Select this link to request tutoring assistance.If you are interested in becoming a tutor, select this link to learn more. Back to the Top of the Page Summer Medical Sciences Prep Program (SMSPP)The LEAD Office oversees the administration of the Summer Medical Sciences Prep Program (SMSPP). Office personnel coordinate, submit and oversee the SMSPP budget, assist the SMSPP Director in program planning, and provide students with individual and group study skills instruction. SMSPP is a five-week program designed to orient in-coming, first-year, medical, physician assistant, physical therapy, dental, podiatry, and optometry students to the Western University campus and community, and to ease adjustment to the demands of their academic environment. It does this by providing an introduction to Gross and Head & Neck Anatomy, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Optics, Adult Medicine, and Pharmacology facilitated by Western University faculty. During the program the LEAD Office endeavors to enhance the students' sense of belonging by working closely with individual students in overcoming environmental, social, cultural, or academic barriers that may interfere with their learning. Back to the Top of the Page | |
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