Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 4, 2017

Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. While I wouldn’t argue for employment outcomes as a simple proxy for teaching quality, I would argue that the learning and teaching experience of our students has the capacity to open up a world of career opportunities.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MAY 21, 2024

What approach or experiential learning activities are best for me and my students? These are the questions that this blog post is going to get at. Students are actively involved in real-world concepts. Each experiential activity listed in this blog post is also not mutually exclusive. It is not the only way.

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Can ChatGPT write this blog post for me? The base question I’m after is how to use a tool like ChatGPT to engage students in the craft of writing the way it would have engaged me. Another potential strength is that using ChatGPT can help students practice using technology in their writing. My dialogue with ChatGPT.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 14, 2024

The teacher's role in a self-directed learning environment is to help students develop deep, meaningful, authentic, and quality learning experiences. Help your students. Look back at my blog series' on self-directed project-based learning & free video training series. Your job is not moot. How about those planners?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 9, 2020

Photo credit: Jordan Encarnacao Unsplash CC0 In this post, Lesley Kelly, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, highlights the university’s multiple initiatives aimed at helping incoming students develop necessary and effective study skills… Starting University is an exciting but challenging time for our students.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

There are so many history project based learning activities for Women’s History Month, and I will offer some of those ideas right here in this blog post. Then have students develop a proposal for or against having a Women’s History Month. I hope you were inspired by some options and start planning right now!

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By allowing multiple submissions and encouraging the use of feedback to refine and deepen content understanding with each attempt, students develop a drive for robust mastery of course goals that supplants the typical pursuit of a particular course grade (usually an A).

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 5, 2023

Giving students the freedom to make their own choices along this PBL framework takes learning to another level. Students develop the tools to manage all of life's projects. In time, your students will be able to make their own choices about those elements, which will act as the framework for their own PBL designs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting When I wrote the proposal for the book that would become The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing , I described it as an alternative to the text They Say/I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein for a couple of reasons.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A comment at last week’s conference on humanities at community colleges has stuck with me. The context was a discussion of student responses to controversial topics. That posture allows for persuasion as an alternative to force. If so, I’d love to hear about it.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 29, 2024

Let's elucidate the key principles of Competency-Based Curriculum Mapping Software in this blog post. Through clear expectations, those in your curriculum team may make sure that students know what's needed to succeed and can adjust their learning experiences appropriately. These work most of the time.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 23, 2024

Among the other facilities, students want well-organized, safe, and interesting housing options, often termed student residence management, housing management, or dormitory management. This blog will discuss the critical role student resident management plays in higher education. Contact Team Creatrix to learn more!

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Experiential Learning Depot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Inquiry-based learning exists on a spectrum from teacher-directed (closed inquiry) to entirely student-directed (open inquiry). ​ If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know which end of the spectrum I try to stick to. If you're new here, I believe student-directed, open inquiry is where it's at!

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 18, 2023

As a final product, I have had my students develop tools (charts, quizzes, mind maps, etc.) Check out these related bundles: Similar blog posts: Join our experiential learning Facebook group! Algae may not be adorable, but zooxanthellae are essential for coral reefs, which are hot spots that house 25% of all marine life.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In a time when international students express anxiety about their place in the UK, our coaches are able to deliver a very personal form of welcoming support – the very opposite of a hostile environment. He is responsible for the delivery of the student development activities and pastoral care of the Scholars.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 24, 2023

Experiential projects put learners in real-world situations where life skills are needed, and this blog post is all about life skills example projects that you can do with your own high school kids! Plan a Dinner Party on a Budget This is a favorite life skills example project for my high school students. Grab your free tools!

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For me, an international student from Nigeria, building a sense of community was an important aspect of what I set out to do in the U.S., My first year was marked by my significant involvement in Hope’s Phelps Scholars Program, which is a first-year program that helps students develop the tools needed to navigate our multicultural world.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MAY 8, 2023

Students coordinate skill-building opportunities and add evidence of those experiences along with a reflection to this ready-made and guided portfolio. ​All of the suggested resume builders for students included in this blog post are skill-building activities by nature and could be added to this portfolio. ​​9.

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Continue to follow this blog series on experiential learning for more tips and tricks. Students develop their personal learning plans right away, and modify or add to them throughout the year. How do you make learning student-directed? The resources recommended here personalize learning and guide self-directed learners.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation There is no shortage of opinions on artificial intelligence. Integration entails using artificial intelligence to enhance learning and deepen our students’ engagement. It’s about helping our students develop the skills and capabilities to use AI effectively. Ever since ChatGPT 3.5

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Staff and three students meeting for a chat on the Coffee and Cake Conversation initiative September’s introductory blog post is written by Dr Cathy Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development. 2009) What student affairs professionals need to know about student engagement.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 20, 2024

Welcome to my experiential science blog series! This blog post marks the beginning of this series with fun end of year science activity ideas specifically around the theme of "Mad Science". This blog post offers ideas for fun science experiences that are experiential in nature. Which of the mad science ideas above will you try?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. It was fantastic that they were included in the event and celebrated just as much as staff who teach; this sort of thing I feel makes us feel more like partners in learning and teaching rather than separate entities of teachers and students.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 27, 2024

Blending technology with teaching and learning in a classroom using digital tools such as laptops, mobile phones, and touchpads not only goes high-tech with digital learning platforms but also provides better communication and interaction between students, which increases their level of interest and curiosity to learn and ask questions.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 27, 2023

Just reading this blog post is a great first step. But teaching students how to create their own high school businesses can be slightly overwhelming, and I get it. That is what this blog post is about: how to teach high school entrepreneurs to start their own businesses using this particular resource.

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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Example: Students collaborate with the Nature Conservancy, for example. Students develop tutorials on how to make and use their invasive species removal tools, compile them into a FlipSnack magazine, and ask the Nature Conservancy to publish the FlipSnack link to their website. Social Media Campaign: Note the word "campaign".

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Experiential Learning Depot

JANUARY 13, 2025

When I hear the phrase Black History Month project , I immediately think of opportunities to create meaningful, student-led experiences that celebrate Black history, achievements, culture, and contributions. That is the gist of this blog post - Black History Month Project-Based Learning ideas. But what about the rest of the year?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 17, 2017

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? ).

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experiential learning by nature results in deep, meaningful, and relevant learning because students are involved, invested, and see the bigger picture. Students Develop a Passion for Learning Because experiential learning is personalized , students are involved in the learning experiences and invested in the outcomes.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 29, 2024

Let's elucidate the key principles of Competency-Based Curriculum Mapping Software in this blog post. Through clear expectations, those in your curriculum team may make sure that students know what's needed to succeed and can adjust their learning experiences appropriately. These work most of the time.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 4, 2023

​ Students can choose their own project topics and write their own driving questions. I often give students a theme and they choose a subtopic under that theme. Students develop their own project goals, including goals for 21st-century competencies. .​ That's why I love it!

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

EUSA Teaching Awards 2024 In this blog Callum Paterson, Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator at the Students’ Association, turns the spotlight to the winners of the Students’ Association’s 2024 Teaching Awards for staff offering exceptional levels of support to students.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 14, 2024

Students are not handed information or answers as you might with a lecture, for example. Students develop a driving question that frames the entire experience. What is one classroom project-based learning material, supply, or piece of equipment that you love to have available to your students? Tell us in the comments!

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 21, 2020

It introduces students to the principles and practice of global health and develops their critical thinking around everyday but complex concepts such as health, disease, food, smoking.

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Experiential Learning Depot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

If you'd like to get a good idea of what my senior project suggestion looks like and are thinking of getting started but aren't sure where to start, head to my senior project blog series. Student-Led Community Action Projects Fall is rich with reminders of peace, kindness, and giving.

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