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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

The Scholarly Teacher

My students seemed to either not understand my question or have difficulty with the content. Not surprising, the students in my graduate-level course were wrestling with understanding the content of this complex student development theory. Student perceptions of effective teaching traits and strategies. Spector, D.

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Flipped Classrooms: A Next Generation Nursing Case Study

The Scholarly Teacher

To meet this challenge, I researched ways to increase critical thinking among my nursing students, as a student myself in an EdD program on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. “An An adult accumulates a growing reservoir of experience, which is a rich resource for learning” (Merriam & Bierema, 2014, p. Jossey-Bass.

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Leveraging Social Cognition to Improve Student Learning

The Scholarly Teacher

Faced with making their own choices, college students will, with varying degrees of success, regulate their own behavior. Baumeister (2014) identified four components to self-regulation: standards of desirable behavior, motivation to meet standards, monitoring situations and thoughts that occur just before a standard is broken, and willpower.

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

The Scholarly Teacher

Located in primarily low-income areas and minority communities, this site has been the focus of many student projects to address health equity and environmental justice. Students revised the EPA letter that is mailed to residents explaining the potential soil contamination and the option to test their soil. Eshbaugh, W.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. Rosalyn Claase Ros is Head of Student Experience, having joined the Business School in November 2011 as the Careers Manager.

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Student engagement inside and outside the classroom

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Another way of looking at these two sides to student engagement is to think about “students engaging” (what the student does) and “engaging students” (what the institution does) (Bryson 2014, p. 2014) Clarifying the concept of student engagement. References Bryson, C.

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Design and Dance: After 10 Years of Partnership with ODS, Creative Opportunities Still Abound

Clark Nesxen

The partnership, which began in 2014, explores, among other things, how designers and dancers can learn from each other’s profession while broadening their perspectives and experiences. ” “We really enjoyed watching the students develop their ideas and seeing their design process.