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

The Scholarly Teacher

What’s Worked: Two Examples Environmental Justice Project In Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Southside Chattanooga Lead Superfund Site extends across 8 neighborhoods just south of the university’s campus (Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 2017. How student enrollment changed in 2022.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Courses bound into teacher preparation programs offer opportunities to connect students’ academic lives to their growing professional identities as educators and are a necessary component of MSI pedagogy (Ostorga, Zúñiga, & Hinton, 2020). is to connect course materials explicitly to students’ future professional development.

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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For that reason (among others), Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character has attracted interest from other institutions since its founding in 2017. A forthcoming paper by Lamb suggests that the course also helped students develop a sense of purpose, including a greater “beyond-the-self” orientation.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

It was early in 2017 when our Student Life department received the approval we had been waiting for – we were embarking on a journey to make the University of Guelph-Humber a CliftonStrengths campus and I was tasked with leading the project. The goal was every student would receive an access code by the 2020-21 academic year.

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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. These matrices provide the cornerstone of the Business School’s MSc Edinburgh Award in Professional Development.

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

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

I came into this programme as a mentor, along with Julie Dickson from the R(D)SVS, when the first cohort of UCVME students were nearing completion of their degrees (and their UCVME certificates) and were writing their AFHEA submissions. I am consistently inspired by what happens when we allow our students to take the reins in teaching.

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Development of graduate attributes in online distance learning students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

iStock [BrianAJackson] Several previous posts on Teaching Matters have focused on graduate attributes – the skills, abilities, attitudes and approaches that students develop “through meaningful experiences and the processes of learning and reflection” (from Definition: what are Graduate Attributes? ). Aug 17, 2017

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