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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. 2017, October 20).

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Incorporating Virtual Instructional Strategies that Increase Student Engagement

The Scholarly Teacher

The challenge now is how to keep students on-task and engaged with the content. The following suggestions aim to help ensure student success and engagement in your next course. Research suggests that virtual environments are different from face-to-face teaching with respect to learning and need to be modified accordingly.

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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Key Statement : Intentionally developing a welcoming classroom environment increases student engagement and cultivates meaningful classroom relationships. Keywords: engagement, motivation, relationship. Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty.

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Developing Your Approach to Generative AI

The Scholarly Teacher

Generative AI tools can identify grammatical issues and provide tailored suggestions to edit students' writing. Students can seek personalized clarification on challenging concepts. Generative AI tools can refine research topics, support data analysis, and format references. 2021; Yang et al., Balakrishnan, B., Barlette, Y.,

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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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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the past five years, EPW has served 909 students, 68% of whom are Latino. To be eligible for the program, students must fulfill several requirements.

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Small group learning: building motivation, relationships and cognition with non-typical student learners

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Sarah Ward, a Lecturer in Learning in Communities at Moray House School for Education and Sport, explores the potent role of Small Group Learning (SGL) in enhancing student engagement, particularly within the MA Learning in Communities programme.