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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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 6, 2024

I love the book The Experiential Educator by Alice Y. They are both influential theorists in the experiential learning movement, and this book really helps clarify and iron out the purpose for and benefits of experiential learning. If you're struggling to get staff or colleagues on board, consider asking that they check out this book.

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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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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

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). Small changes to class time can better connect underserved students to university resources.

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Parchment

APRIL 1, 2024

Early career and academic exploration, advising, and planning Use dual enrollment to showcase college programs, help students develop a college program plan, and coordinate advising roles across sectors.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

Rethinking college student development theory using critical frameworks. Haymarket Books. Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. Routledge. , [link] Kupo,V. & Oxendine, S.(2019). Complexities in authenticity. Jones, & D-L Stewart (Eds.), Stylus.Love, B. Beacon Press Menakem, R. Ladson-Billings, G.

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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. If a student chooses to create an animation to demonstrate learning, for example, they wouldn't present their final product on a podcast.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The way in which textbooks cement a particular kind of curriculum came to mind in the context of developing my own textbook, Dead White Men and Other Important People , with Ralph Fevre, which had its second edition published this year. The book introduces students to sociological ideas.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 26, 2020

We decided instead on a part-time 2-week cyclical structure, during which students would complete three tasks: Scholars were asked to choose a book to read for each fortnightly cycle, and were eclectic and wide ranging in their selections. Where next? In short, to chart a path between individual learning and a shared community spirit.

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Kay Peterson

MAY 13, 2022

Harvard professor Amy Edmondson describes her research on “teaming” in her classic book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy. A key element of her design process is how the students develop team trust over time.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 11, 2018

Some see the benefits of augmentation extending to the subject of last week’s post on lectures , with further benefits to student development and accessibility: One of the things that I think that will happen is there will be a massive uptake in the use of augmented reality. And I can see applications, for example, a physics class.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 8, 2024

The first piece of this career exploration activity requires students to explore a career (which could be based on an interest or career outlook) and examine relevant community issues related to that career. Then students develop a solution to the identified problem that they can realistically act on.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

Students will work alongside that scientist if possible, learn about their lives and their research, and then develop a children’s book that highlights the lives and contributions to science and society by the two women. Organize a “storytime” event for students to read their books to a young audience.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 31, 2023

. ​Students explore careers of interest, research the logistics that come with those careers, design and lead their own community action projects around issues relevant to a career of interest, develop 21st-century skills, and build a stunning and robust career portfolio to showcase these learning experiences.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 29, 2023

This idea here is that students develop some kind of production such as a skit, play, documentary, music concert, etc. I have also had students organize their own walks. Some of my students read a book for their book club called "Am I Blue?", which inspired them to organize a walk.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

Student Tutor of the Year: Rosie Wu, Edinburgh College of Art (Photo credit: EUSA) This year, our Student Tutor of the Year is Rosie Wu. Based in the Edinburgh College of Art, Rosie’s teaching focuses on children’s picture books.

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 14, 2024

When I say project-based learning "works for" all learners, what I mean is that project-based learning effectively promotes deeper learning of content, independent thinking, and the development of 21st-century skills for all. The difference is in how each student develops the skills and knowledge.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

The course staff feel that a more private blog is a good way for students to express ideas and reflect on them (in a safe space), and really helps the course staff and the student to connect. Dr Simon Riley is using it in part of the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) project. Look out for it!

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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. Here are a few suggestions for PBL materials that help students ask good questions and find diverse sources of information.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

We might bring back handwritten tests in blue books. 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. We might, for example, emphasize more in-person engagements.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MAY 23, 2023

They not only get to build some pretty incredible skills, including the ability to develop and launch a business , but they get to make a little extra summer cash in the process! I have had students develop and run summer camps, computer maintenance businesses, take-and-bake pie shops, and photography companies, just to name a few.

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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. I also recommend the book "Passion for Learning" by Ronald J. Your job is not moot. But it is important to keep in mind that your job is to facilitate.

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I had a professor who had (in my judgment) given me a coloring book and was going to grade me on whether I colored inside the lines, that triggered my worst adolescent self. Another potential strength is that using ChatGPT can help students practice using technology in their writing. My dialogue with ChatGPT.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. In The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses, Blake R.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We found out quickly one of the reasons faculty didn't want to connect their calendars, they thought we were gonna start booking up all their time. How can you set up communications? Let's talk about the calendar. DS: And so when we were able to show them, "No, you tell us. So it wasn't just what we saw, they felt it as well.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Student Attrition, Learning, and Program Evaluation (1960s and 1970s): In the 1960s and 1970s, the call for co-curricular evaluation at the higher education level was received, with federal grants funding program evaluation and student attrition research. Developing a Culture of Assessment in Student Affairs.

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Will Richardson

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

At some point in the last couple of months, someone recommended that I read Seth Kreisberg’s 1992 book Transforming Power: Domination, Empowerment, and Education. So, here’s a snip from the book that talks about the work of those educators under the threat of nuclear war. To whomever that person is, sincere thanks.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

through Free Expression Student Summits that teach attendees skills to promote free expression. Organizers aim to connect with students by tying free expression back to things they might care about, such as art, book bans, media literacy and protest rights. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

The context was a discussion of student responses to controversial topics. Someone mentioned that in the K-12 world, students are taught—sometimes deliberately, sometimes by default—that the book they’re reading is true. They generally assume that it was chosen for them on the grounds that it’s correct.

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