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Beyond words: Intermediality as a teaching method to diversify engagement

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Students’ Artists Books laid out on a display table at 50 George Square Artists Books showcasing the work of the current Intermediality cohort (2024-25). This post belongs to the Engaging and Empowering Learning: Celebrating Best Practices series. However, what constitutes student engagement?

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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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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Gerogiorgis delves into the 4S strategySet, Spark, Stroll, Summarizecrafted to maximise student engagement and learning effectiveness in hybrid learning environments. He has co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications in journals and book series, and is recognized with two Academy of Athens (L. Mousoulos/2015, H.L.

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Welcome to Jan-March learning & teaching enhancement theme: In-class Perspectives to Engaging and Empowering Learners

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In the third instalment of our series focused on engaging and empowering learners through diverse perspectives in the classroom, the authors of these blog posts share reflections on how their educational practices and personal experiences shape their approaches to student engagement.

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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The students are always the teachers in my book about which community-engaged practices to implement in a space,” she says. “I I am not the expert, and I come to the students openhearted and ready to learn.”

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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., Department of Education created the “ National Parents and Families Engagement Council to Help Ensure recovery Efforts Meet Students’ Needs.” In 2022, the U.S.

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Welcome to November-December’s Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Books that inspire our teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Photo credit: Ed Robertson, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Joséphine Foucher introduces November-December’s Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Books that inspire our teaching. Joséphine Foucher is Teaching Matters’ Deputy Editor and Student Engagement Officer. For this theme, we wanted to try something different.