Overview
The short abbreviation for Residential Curriculum.
What is a Res Cur?
The four pillars.
What is Community, Personal Development, Belonging & Wellness, and Global Responsibility?
Printed or handmade decorations that are given to the residents and serve as the first impression residents have of their floor and residential communities.
What are Door Decorations?
The primary community builder within your floor and residential community.
What is the Resident Assistant?
You are an RA in a FY Community. It is the Spring Semester and you are completing your first round of Panther Chats. What topic would you focus on?
a. Adjustment to college
b. Reflection on first semester
c. Graduation
What is A. Adjustment to college?
An educational plan that is intentional and sequenced.
What is a Residential Curriculum?
A deeper understanding of oneself by engaging in self-discovery and exploring their identities, values, and purpose. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)
What is the definition of the Personal Development pillar?
An educational strategy that supports the Personal Development pillar.
What are Panther Chats?
RAs should be [blank] with the student experience.
What is intentional?
You are an RA for a UY Community. You find it difficult to get your residents to attend your CTs. What do you do?
a. Door knock on as many doors and ask residents what time for a CT works best
b. Create a thoughtful marketing plan so residents are aware of the CT
c. Incorporate food and facilitate a discussion on post-graduation expectations with alumni and/or graduate students (think ARECs)
d. All of the above
What is D. All of the above?
Provide spaces where students continue to learn inside and outside the classroom.
What is Housing & Residential Experience?
Collaborate in addressing shared challenges to promote a positive living environment. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)
What is a Community learning objective?
An educational strategy that supports this learning objective: Collaborate in addressing shared challenges to promote a positive living environment.
What are Roommate Agreements?
The main RA responsibility with Res Cur educational strategies.
What is implementation?
Your supervisor shares data in your staff meeting after the first round of Panther Chats. The data shows that majority of your residents are struggling with academics and making friends. What do you do?
a. Share out academic resources in the group chat
b. Adjust your upcoming CT to create a space for residents to study/collaborate with the tutoring center
c. Check Panther Connect for academic programming and share the flyer in the group chat
d. Continue with your financial wellness community tradition.
e. All answers except d
What is E. All answers except d?
Intentional, Goal/Outcome-Focused, and Sequenced.
What are the components of a Residential Curriculum?
Utilize interpersonal skills that promote meaningful connections with peers and the community. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)
What is a Belonging & Wellness learning objective?
This educational strategy allows residents to gain a deeper understanding of living in a residence hall and RAs will guide residents in a discussion on housing policy, university resources and community guidelines.
What is a [Opening] Community Floor Meeting?
RAs read this document to guide and inform their educational strategy implementation.
What is a Departmental Lesson Plan?
You are an RA on rounds. As you are walking the halls, you hear music and laughter coming out of a suite. You notice that this is a resident you haven't been able to contact yet to complete your Panther Chat. You've already made 2 attempts to contact them. What do you do?
a. Send them another text message
b. Door knock after completing rounds
c. Let your supervisor know you couldn't make contact
What is B. Door knock after completing rounds?
Provide opportunities for our students to become leaders serving the local and global communities.
What is HRE's Educational Priority?
Participation in a learning environment, where students can reflect on the impact of their actions within the residential community and on a local & global scale to effect positive change. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)
What is the definition of the Global Responsibility pillar?
Participating in a Hall Council supports this pillar.
What is Belonging & Wellness?
The final step of an educational strategy outlined in the Departmental Lesson Plan.
What is assessment?
You’re planning a program and want to make sure it supports student development and doesn't just provides entertainment. This is how you ensure it connects back to the curriculum.
What is “identify a learning objective first, then design the program around it”?