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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.,

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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

We are still developing the process, and will be working on informing students about the career options within HE and providing more support for their teaching, just as we would offer staff as part of their professional development, and our aim is to have the students involved in these decision processes where possible.

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NYU interdisciplinary experiential learning takes off

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: At New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, the seven-year-old Vertically Integrated Projects program has grown from five teams to almost 50, involving hundreds of students each semester. By involving students across grades and rooting the project under a faculty adviser, VIPs don’t end when the school year does.

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“I know a first when I see one!”: Developing transparent marking descriptors with the help of students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Help students develop the ability to self-assess. 2016) A scholarly approach to solving the feedback dilemma in practice, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. & Macfarlane-Dick, D. 2 pp 199-218 [link] O’Donovan, B. and Price, M. 6 pp 938-949 [link] [1] See Exemplar Descriptors. [2]

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Teaching in Dialogue: Content-independent learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

We also showed other voices that challenge some of these voices – other students, family members, passers-by – with other kinds of knowledge and perspectives on the issues Mila grapples with. The book shows the importance of learning from others, involving intellectual foils and critical friends in studentsdevelopment.