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A weekly breakfast club fuels a sense of community in the School of Biological Sciences

Teaching Matters Academic Support

This has been particularly valuable for our postgraduate students who can feel isolated from their cohorts during their long summer projects. Breakfast Club is a good opportunity to meet up with friends you dont usually see during your project, and definitely contributed positively to my week noted one of our postgraduate students.

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GenAI vs Academic Skills Development

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Therefore, relying too heavily on AI to write reports will have an impact on students development of critical reasoning and writing skills. If students mostly use AI to write their work, there will be a noticeably (negative) effect on how they learn to structure arguments and use evidence to effectively support their narrative.

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Supplemental Essays Are Important!

Great College Advice

Most students will save the supplemental essays as the very last thing they do on their application. Admission officers definitely raise an eyebrow when they read an excellent personal statement and then a less than mediocre supplemental essay. But those supplemental essays are important.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

This project was particularly important to me because of the impact CliftonStrengths had made in my life and how the tool was being used to support post-secondary studentsdevelopment. At first these were mostly made up words with definitions that were new to me but as a I learned more, I understood how useful this tool could be.

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Empowering Your Students’ Agency Through Ungrading Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Ungrading, Student Agency, Formative Assessment Introduction Ungrading has become an increasingly appealing alternative to the traditional grading practices of assigned points, percentages, and letter grades.

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No Winners in a Curriculum War

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Even an answer to the question like “better at teaching students to write” depends on a shared definition of what learning to write looks like. It did not occur to me that my book may be an opportunity to declare “war” on an approach with a different emphasis from mine.

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Designing for Success: The Principles of Competency-Based Curriculum Mapping Software in Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

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. To enable more focused and efficient teaching and learning tactics, clear competencies also offer a standard for evaluating student development and mastery.