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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

For community college students, the primary opportunity for engagement is in the classroom, as they typically attend part-time with fewer extracurricular opportunities than their four-year counterparts. 2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003). 2021; Close et al., References Chen, X., Ellerbrock, C.,

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

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? But what does this look like in the higher education classroom?

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Visual Journaling

The Scholarly Teacher

Visual literacy empowers individuals to effectively contribute and consume visual culture and digital media, as well as engage as discerning citizens within a diverse, democratic, and visually oriented society (ACLR, 2011/2022; Freedman, 2003; Yenawine, 2013). University of California Press. Dalton, J. The mindful studio. Donahue, D.

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The uniqueness of learning: Rethinking the meaning of student-centred education

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The movement toward the “market model of the university” results in higher education institutions imitating behaviours and elements of organisational culture from large corporations ​(Jongbloed, 2003)​. Ecological Teaching Evaluation vs the Datafication of Quality: Understanding Education with, and Around, Data. link] ​Hull, C. Jongbloed, B.

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The uniqueness of learning: Rethinking the meaning of student-centred education

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The movement toward the “market model of the university” results in higher education institutions imitating behaviours and elements of organisational culture from large corporations ​(Jongbloed, 2003)​. Ecological Teaching Evaluation vs the Datafication of Quality: Understanding Education with, and Around, Data. link] ​Hull, C. Jongbloed, B.

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In recent years, increased pressure has been placed on educational institutions, by government and industry, to provide opportunities for higher education students to acquire and develop the skills required for industry ( Thomas S, & Busby S, 2003 ). Reference: [1] Thomas S, & Busby S, 2003. Education+ Training, 45, pp.

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Fieldwork: The liminal experience you never even knew you had!

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

As a result, when the concept of liminality is applied to education, it is often used to describe an uncomfortable transition phase that precedes the mastery of a new idea or practice of working (Meyer & Land, 2003). But what does this have to do with fieldwork?”, I hear you ask. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press Turner, V.,

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