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Five-Day Online Boot Camp

Landmark College’s 5-Day Online Boot Camp for new and continuing college students who learn differently!

Dates: Monday, July 15 – Friday, July 19, 2024
2023 Cost: $1,850

Do you want to feel better prepared and more confident as you begin or return to college this fall?

Are you a recent high school graduate or current college student who would like to:

  • Have a better understanding of your learning challenges and the relationship between neurodiversity & identity
  • Meet and learn from college students who share similar learning challenges and have found academic success
  • Shift the way you think about your learning strengths and challenges
  • Take a more active role in advocating for your educational needs
  • Explore new strategies for:
    • reading and writing
    • note-taking
    • test-taking
    • executive functioning
    • balancing academic and personal life

If this sounds like you, don’t miss Landmark College’s 5-day Online Boot Camp, where our experienced faculty will help you explore:

  • What science shows us about what we can do to improve our attention, memory, and motivation
  • Strategies and to support skills and perspective that are critical to success in college

 

Questions?


Carroll Paré
802-387-6885
[email protected]


Program Details

    • Personal consultations with your professor
      • Preprogram
      • Postprogram
    • Daily face-to-face group sessions 
    • Daily academic support check-ins with your professor
    • Three peer-mentor panels with Landmark College students and alumni
    • Four Learning Modules:
    • Chat sessions with LC students and alumni available throughout the program
    • Notes for Success—developed by you and supplemented by your professor

    Each learning module will help you to understand and get answers to questions like:

    Self-Identification: How would I describe my learning differences? What labels have been used to describe me and what do they mean? What are the benefits/limitations of learning labels? How “flexible” is my sense of myself as a learner?

    Self-Understanding: What are my strengths and challenges? What are my predictable patterns as a learner? What gets in the way of my academic and personal success? How does addressing out-of-classroom needs impact my academic success?

    Self-Strategies: What is the difference between study skills and learning strategies? What are some strategies I can use to be more successful? How can I improve my executive functioning and better retain academic information?

    Self-Advocacy: What does it mean to be a successful self-advocate? What is my learning profile and how can I communicate that to others? How can I be effective at getting the support I need? What are my rights under the law? What are some specific ways that I know I will need to advocate for myself?

  • NOTE: All times are Eastern Time Zone. Each module is approximately 3 – 4 hours and all are asynchronous.

      Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
      Pre-Boot Camp Individual Meetings (Required) Module 1:
    Self-Identification
    Module 2:
    Self-Understanding
    Module 3:
    Self-Strategies
    Module 4:
    Self-Advocacy
    1 – 2:30 p.m. Welcome and Introductions (Required) Peer-to-Peer Panel (Required) Peer-to-Peer Panel (Required) Peer-to-Peer Panel (Required) Personal Learning Plan Sharing (Required)
      Module 1:
    Self-Identification
    Module 2:
    Self-Understanding
    Module 3:
    Self-Strategies
    Module 4:
    Self-Advocacy
    Post-Boot Camp Individual Meetings (Required)
    5 – 6 p.m. Academic Support
    Check-In (Required)
    Academic Support Check-In (Required) Academic Support Check-In (Required) Academic Support Check-In (Required)
  • How are the synchronous sessions structured?

    The synchronous group sessions take place in the early afternoon ET. After these 1.5–2 hour sessions, students are expected to complete the asynchronous module before the next day’s group session. The asynchronous modules take students 3 to 4 hours a day to complete. The activities in these modules include:

    • Watching a relevant documentary
    • Exercising Your Brain (and Body) Podcast Walks (choosing one of three podcasts, putting on headphones, and going for a walk)
    • Completing an online assessment of academic strengths and challenges
    • Listening and taking notes on a Landmark student’s senior capstone on neurodiversity
    • Creating a timeline of the “disability rights” movement
    • Visiting your colleges disability services office
    • Strategy exploration (for reading, writing, note-taking, test-taking, executive functioning, and academic/personal life balance
    • Everyday, students are adding to their “Notes for Future Success” document

    How do the Academic Check-ins work?

    Students check in with the professor to report on how the asynchronous work is going. If there are challenges, the professor will help develop strategies going forward. The length of these meetings vary, depending on the needs of the student.

    What are the goals of the Peer-to-Peer Panel?

    College-age students are most likely to learn from their peers, so the goal here is to introduce participants to students who have struggled, but are currently finding success in college. The professor will guide the panel with discussion topics and questions and there will be an opportunity for students to ask questions of the panelists as well. The focus during the past sessions were:

    • LD strengths and challenges in a college setting
    • Strategies for learning online
    • Making the most of support services
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