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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When raising my son (now an adult and father), I always found parent-teacher conferences intimidating. Given the lower achievement and other negative outcomes of Black and Hispanic students in our schools often due to racial prejudice and discrimination (i.e., content, books events, topics, issues). Imagine that.

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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Holiday Food Drive Have your students organize a food drive to collect non-perishable items and deliver them to local food banks or shelters to support families in need. Students engage in every step from planning and promoting to collecting and delivering donations in this service-learning project ideas.

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A Framework for Non-Degree Credential Quality

Parchment

Are they actually leading to better outcomes for students? we have been working now with eight states to develop profiles of the noncredit data that they’re collecting and share those. If you email me at credentialsonscripted.gmail.com, I will send you a copy of Michelle’s book Credentials. are on our website.

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Can Video Games Provide Meaningful Learning Experiences?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Develop a healthy skepticism about how popular culture depicts the past while learning how to assess the games’ accuracies and inaccuracies. Topics that many video games address include the development of trading networks, military and geopolitical diplomatic maneuvering and the influence of geography and technology.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme. It builds on the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures (FILL) developed by Wood et al.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

Here, two of our presenters Dr Karen Gravett and Tim Fawns , reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the third symposium on ‘Assemblages’. I think we are then less likely to develop practices that attune to wider contexts and possibilities. Her latest books are: Gravett, K. Personal website: [link].

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. Effective in cultivating a sense of community and enhancing a sense of belonging and raising retention rates?