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"The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.  Ascertain this and teach him accordingly."

- David Ausubel

Over the course of my professional life, I have undergone many changes in my interests but two things have always remained strong--my interest in the teaching of writing and critical reading and my commitment to providing students with as much personal attention as is possible so that they might reap as much benefit as possible from the educational experience.

Office Information:

 First Year of Studies
219 Coleman Morse Center
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN  46556
Phone:  (574) 631-7421
Fax:  (574) 631-8141

 

Sandra Harmatiuk
 director, learning strategies program


Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Major: Old and Middle English Language/Literature, Minors: Linguistics/Stylistics.
  • M.A., College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York.
  • B.A. cum laude, College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York.

Areas of Responsibility

  • Presents workshops on Reading.
  • Works with individual students who are interested in improving their writing and reading skills.
  • Works with individual students in the learning strategies areas.
  • Teaches Composition in the Balfour-Hesburgh Summer Program.
  • Presents lecture for PE 12000: Making the Academic Adjustment to College
  • Teaches FYS 10190: Advanced Strategies for Discipline Specific Study

Other Professional Experiences:

  • First Year Composition Curriculum Committee, 1998 -1999.
  • Workshops offered for various departments on campus:  First Year Composition class, Writing Center, Minority Engineering Program, Athletic Department, College of Business.

Professional Organizations:

  • North Central Reading Association, Board Member (served as Secretary, At-Large Member, President-Elect, President).
  • Program Chair, North Central Reading Association Annual Conferences, 1989-1997.

Presentations

  • "Can Bright Students be Under-prepared?" paper presented at TASS conference, March 2007.
  • "Incorporating Study Skills Instruction into a Physical Education Course," TASS conference, March 2006.
  • "Is There Another Way? From Narrative to Argument, " paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference, North Central Reading Association, Fall 1996.
  • "Providing Support Systems for First Year Students," paper presented at the 34th Annual Conference, North Central Reading Association, Fall 1991.
  • "Developing a Skills Program," paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference, North Central Reading Association, Fall 1990.

Publications

  • "A Statistical Approach to Some Aspects of Style in Six Old English Poems: A Computer-Assisted Study," in Glottometrika 2, edited by R. Grotjahn, Quantitative Linguistics, Vol. 3, Bochum, 1980, 89-107.

Links

email: harmatiuk.1@nd.edu

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