Njeri 普林格尔 Named 研究生 Assistant of the Year at bet365亚洲官网

Njeri Monik 普林格尔 of Valdosta is 365bet中文’s 2019-2020 研究生 Assistant of the Year.

VALDOSTA — The 学术支持中心’s Njeri Monik 普林格尔 is 365bet中文’s 2019-2020 研究生 Assistant of the Year.
 
Dr. 有Peguesse, 学术支持中心主任, 参考品客的可靠性, 工作质量, 倡议, 专业, and uniqueness of contribution when nominating her for the distinguished honor. She said 普林格尔 has served as a graduate assistant in her office for three years and has proven to be “an indispensible colleague.”
 
“Njeri’s spiritual strength and her empathic skills inspire everyone who works with her to be their best self,皮格塞在提名中指出. “She is tirelessly positive and encouraging and grounded; she establishes clear boundaries and sticks to them, which also generates lots of respect from her students and her supplemental instruction 引领ers because she helps them be clear about boundaries, 太. 她精力充沛。, and yet she readily admits when she’s wrong, always solicits feedback about her development, 而且不害怕寻求帮助. She has earned our respect and admiration, and she deserves this recognition.”
 
普林格尔’s role as graduate assistant in the 学术支持中心 requires her to design, 引领, and assess training for bet365亚洲官网’s Supplemental Instruction Leader Program, a peer-facilitated academic assistance program that utilizes regularly scheduled, informal review sessions to increase retention and improve student grades in targeted historically difficult courses. 她收集, 整理, and analyzes data to determine where the program is successful and where it needs attention.
 
Peguesse said 普林格尔 has made many improvements in this area, including streamlining training and accountability for the Supplemental Instruction Leader Program. She created a BlazeView course containing all training materials and a newsletter that keeps supplemental instruction 引领ers informed about upcoming activities and due dates, and she formed an advisory board to help identify opportunities to make the program more effective and efficient. She helped establish a mentoring system to strengthen relationships among supplemental instruction 引领ers and developed a short presentation for faculty to clarify the duties of a supplemental instruction 引领er.
 
“Our data collection has improved greatly, and supplemental instruction 引领er morale has risen significantly,Peguesse分享道.
 
As a graduate assistant in the 学术支持中心, 普林格尔 also 引领s success workshops and meets with students to help them plan and practice study and self-care strategies.
 
“Njeri goes above and beyond when it comes to the quality of her work,皮格塞在她的提名中写道. “例如, she has revised our academic workshops to be much more interactive, 她还创建了一些新的工作室, 比如如何与教授合作, 你如何学习?, 批判性和创造性思维.” She said 普林格尔 often takes the center’s Time Management “on the road” and has worked extensively with the men's basketball and football players, using an interactive 太l that these students manipulate to understand how their time gets portioned out.
 
普林格尔, 瓦尔多斯塔居民, is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education in Leadership, with a focus on higher education 引领ership, 预计12月毕业. Her dissertation is a qualitative study of teacher strategies and practices that are utilized in helping college remedial mathematics students mitigate mathematics anxiety.
 
“She is studying how fear gets in the way of learning math … (and she) applies what she’s studying to her workshops with students and student athletes, to her coaching sessions with ‘high alert’ students, and to her training sessions with supplemental instruction 引领ers,Peguesse补充道.
 
“She truly ‘shows up’ for everyone around her, listening closely to what people say and encouraging growth at every step.”
 
普林格尔 holds a Master of Education in Educational Leadership in 2007 and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology in 2002, 这两项都是她在弗吉尼亚州立大学获得的, as well as a series of associate-level degrees in mathematics, 计算机科学, 社会学, and psychology from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in 1998.
 
“I am blessed to have a very supportive network of family, 朋友, 神事工家庭的形象, 和他的同事们,”她说。. “I love working in the 学术支持中心 for many reasons — being around the people that we serve and serve with, helping shape how we help others make connections, and fostering an environment in which connections can happen.”
 
秋天毕业后, 普林格尔 plans to continue to work in a capacity that allows her to foster connections through work in an environment like bet365亚洲官网’s 学术支持中心, 咨询公司, 继续研究.
 
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