The National Conference on Current Trends in
Conflict Resolution in Higher Education

Concurrent Workshops III

How to Make Conflict Intervention practicum Experiences Work! Closing the Loop Between Classroom Preparation and Practical Learning Experience. And Effectively Teaching Conflict Resolution Skill Building in an Online Environment

Workshop Presenters

    Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D. is the Interim Director of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) at NSU, a member of the faculty, and the Director of Practicum & Community Resolution Services (CRS), the Department's own practicum site and clinic.  She has been professionally involved in conflict resolution for over 20 years as a mediator, arbitrator, attorney, negotiator, facilitator, grievance hearing officers, trainer, dispute systems designer, researcher and professor.  She has consulted for private, civic, religious and community organizations, engaged in civil litigation and contract negotiations, and assisted in writing constitutions, bylaws, and grievance procedures for unions and other organizations. Dr. McKay's research interests include: Strategic community planning, conflict and crisis management, organizational conflict, public policy, mediation models, family and community violence, health care conflict resolution, distance learning & graduate experiential learning.

    Jerry C. Dyer, Ohio Valley College, Jerry Dyer holds a Master of Dispute Resolution from the Pepperdine University School of Law and is a Ph.D. candidate in Dispute Resolution at Nova Southeastern University. Dyer has mediated over 300 disputes and has conducted numerous seminars in the area of Alternate Dispute Resolution.

Workshop Notes

Academic World and “The Real World”

  • Practicum – Internships/Externships/Practicum

    • Underpinnings are about theory

    • Practicum is not lecture; it is early fieldwork under an integrated system to promote experiential learning and knowledge.

    • Where does faculty fit in to practicum?

    • Build off pre-practicum lab experience.

  • 3 levels of student graduate certificate, masters of Science and PhD.

  • Practicum is experience with a net

4 Practicum opportunities:

  • Practicum I + II

    • Second year sequence

    • After students have had career development program (Specialized)

    • Informal discussion with professors and practitioners

    • Further study of a specific field for students

    • Student Driven- Students decide their field and are helped by those in that field

    • Sites offered locally, regionally and globally

  • Practicum III

    • Elective- Take a job description and checklist your experiences and resume.

  • Practicum IV

    • Advanced Practicum

    • Faculty Driven – Students are selected

    • Teaching and Training Practicum

    • Students driven as teachers assistants

Practicum as a Class Experience

  • Students go to field and bring it back to class

  • ID Theory and Knowledge- Theory applies to experience

  • Examine dissonance

    • How does the text/ theory fail to deal with experience

    • What happens if theory fails to explain….

  • Articulate Learning- Does the student enjoy their experience or not?

  • Use of journals, activity logs, SOAP notes.

  • Offer seminars, portfolios and presentations

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