MS269: Build Your Toolbox: Strategies to Maximize Engagement in Group Interventions

Wednesday, February 14, 2024
4:00 PM–5:50 PM CST

  • PMD: 6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. explain the rationale for proactive group-based skill building interventions to efficiently meet student needs within a multitiered system of support;
  2. describe and apply strategies to maximize student engagement in small-group interventions; and
  3. apply a framework to efficiently address challenges related to student engagement aligned with an ecological model focused on the leader, the group context, and individual students.

Description

Meaningful student engagement is a prerequisite for effective interventions. Gain a toolbox of engagement strategies to apply at the leader-, group-, and student-level to improve your facilitation of group interventions.

Presenter(s)

Sarah A. Fefer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Shannon M. Suldo, PhD, University of South Florida
Jacqueline S. Blass, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hallie Lothrop, University of Massachusetts

Contributor(s)

Elizabeth K. Grose, Kristen Mahony, Camryn I. Legra

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