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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. Photo by Robert Lathrop.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Given my research background, I cannot claim authority in teaching and pedagogy research. 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).

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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. You may be asking what is CliftonStrengths (CS) and how does it help students?

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How professional digital ePortfolios can enhance employability and professional identity

SRHE

My research investigated digital ePortfolios in the undergraduate curriculum in Childhood Studies at the University of Portsmouth. This is relevant in a climate where graduates compete for jobs, and degree programmes are perceived as a ‘product’ with an emphasis on value for money with students as customers (Modell, 2005).

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

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Some of the students also attend staff talks on educational topics, which they find helpful for their own teaching. Of the 8 students who have so far applied for the AFHEA across 2017 and 2018, all have been successful in achieving Associate Fellow status.

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Reflections of an Edinburgh Award tutor

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It has been wonderful to see students develop during their participation in the award, not all staff get to witness this change at such close quarters – almost in real time. Neil Speirs Dr Speirs works on a number of Widening Participation projects as a practitioner and researcher. Jan 24, 2017