The Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

The open access nature of community colleges and the varying levels of academic preparedness of their students require programs and courses that provide remediation and support in foundational skills for nearly two- thirds of students (Chen et al., 2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003).

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 29, 2023

The diversity and multicultural nature of today’s college classroom calls for use of culturally responsive practices to improve student engagement and learning (Mohammad & Nordin, 2017). How can instructors engage the brain and prime it for new learning? How does prior knowledge influence learning engagement?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR) at the School of Mathematics shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration. Reference: [1] Thomas S, & Busby S, 2003.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 30, 2019

As educators and researchers, we accept that, as we ourselves learn and discover, we might change our attitudes or ideas about things. And, as we teach students, we sometimes challenge habits of a lifetime, or of a social construct, if we are including a whole cohort of people from different cultural backgrounds. I hear you ask.

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