Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 28, 2017

The School of Mathematics has long recognised the need for providing its students with support beyond that offered by the University’s established channels: our subject, by its very nature, poses challenges to incoming students in their transition from School-level to University-level Mathematics. When the University introduced its Personal Tutor (PT) System, the School decided to appoint a Mathematics graduate to the role of Student Learning Advisor (SLA).

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Hope College Network

MARCH 27, 2017

Happy Monday, Readers! I hope you all enjoyed your Spring Break and feel relaxed and rejuvenated as we enter this last sprint before the school year ends. As a senior, it felt like this Spring Break was needed more than ever before. Here’s a little glimpse into what I did! For my break, I headed down to sunny Florida with my family. It was so nice to be able to spend one final break with them before my sister and I graduate.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 23, 2017

I am presently enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate for Academic Practice, and am writing a blog as part of the Designing Courses module. We were asked to read an article by Anna Sfard on acquisition and participation metaphors in learning, and consider how these apply to our own practice. After watching a football game whilst reflecting on this task, I was struck at some of the emergent similarities between the role of the referee and how I perceive my role as a teacher during our simulatio

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 9, 2017

In this post, the Director of Teaching in Chemistry, Dr Michael Seery, and two students, Zuzanna Konieczna and Anna Lykkeberg, share their experiences of peer assessment and feedback in the School of Chemistry… Practical work exists in many disciplines, but it is often assessed after the event, with a report on work completed being assessed rather than the work itself.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

As an institution, interdisciplinarity is something we strive for, and as a reflection of this, it was a theme for discussion in a recent Senate. However, with teaching resources and budgets tight, there are challenges to conduct genuinely interdisciplinary teaching between and across our existing structures of colleges, schools, deaneries, and centres.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 1, 2017

Teaching Matters is the University of Edinburgh’s website for debate about learning and teaching, for sharing ideas and approaches to teaching, and for showcasing our successes, including academic colleagues who are leading the way in delivering brilliant teaching. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 16, 2017

In April 2014 the Vet School introduced peer support via its Association for Veterinary Students (AVS) reps in 3 rd and 4 th year, for those entering the 2 nd year of the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) programme. The session aimed to highlight some of the challenges students may encounter during the transition between pre-clinical and clinical studies and to offer advice and study skill strategies to help.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Web Teams are very good at ‘managing’ their online presence, but organisations aren’t too great at ‘governing’ it. We examine.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 14, 2017

Hello, my name is Mike. I work for the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, and my role is to ensure we provide an outstanding student experience for our cohort of 750 on-campus undergraduate Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery students (BVMS), a professional veterinary degree. In this post I will introduce and talk about four mechanisms which we have developed and use to support students who encounter difficulties during their studies.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 8, 2017

This Wednesday (March 15), I and Amie Hixon will organizing a Chilean movie night on the behalf of International Student Office in order to promote studying abroad. We both studied abroad in Chile this past fall semester. I was in Business and Culture program and Amie was in Liberal Arts Program. We will have a brochures about all the possible options if you are interested in studying abroad in Chile.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 8, 2017

We all know Porsche. One of the most luxurious and most technically developed cars one can buy in current market. People think Porsche is one of the symbols of brilliant German engineering, precision, and reliability. As of right now, it is truth, but most people do not know that Porsche is not German company. It is Czech company, which moved to Germany and became German.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 7, 2017

Peer Support started at Edinburgh as a joint venture between Edinburgh University Students Association and the University of Edinburgh in September 2012 and since June 2015 has been running as the Department of Peer Learning and Support. Peer Learning and Support in the context of the University means a student with more experience sharing their knowledge, skills, abilities and expertise with a new or less experienced student.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 2, 2017

This past weekend, on Saturday, there was an international Food Fair where international students were making foods from their home country. Unfortunately, I was not be able to able to attend, so I will talk about what Czech cuisine looks like. All my not-Czech friends who tried Czech cuisine, they either really liked it or do not eat at all. The meal is usually very heavy and includes a meat and some type of sauce.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 2, 2017

Even though it is the start of a Spring, Prague, the capital city of the my home country, the Czech Republic, has something spectacular. In every bigger city in the Czech Republic there is a Christmas market. There are always very Christmasy, relaxing, and romantic, but the Prague Christmas Market is in the league itself. It was ranked as the number 1 Christmas Market in the world by CNN.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 8, 2017

This past weekend “ Fly-In Weekend ” happened and I was one of your hosts, so if you are prospective student, this is something that you may want to think about. The Fly-In program kicked off on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m., where the visiting students gathered with their hosts in front of the fireplace in Phelps Dining Hall. By the way, it is called Fly-in Weekend because students fly in to Hope from all different states, like New York, Utah or California.

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MARCH 8, 2017

The first class I am taking this semester is Russian II. As you know, Hope College is a liberal arts school, so you will have to take a second or for some people, a third or fourth language. It does not have to be a Russian. You can take Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and German as well. But as you might guess Spanish is the most popular one because most U.S. students take Spanish in high school.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 8, 2017

My second class is Spanish V class because Spanish is my minor. Interestingly enough, Spanish V is my first Spanish class at Hope, but I did study abroad in Chile for a semester. In Spanish V we basically go over all tenses, subjunctives and conditionals, so by then we should theoretically have no more grammar to learn. If you are interested in Spanish minor, then you need 16 credits, but it starts to count with Spanish V.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 8, 2017

Since, I am Management major Principles of Microeconomics is a must-take class. It is not terribly difficult, but harder harder than Principles of Macroeconomics. But I am not really talk here about what we study in Microeconomics, but more the difference between the Management and Economics major. I was an Economics major, then I declared a Management major with an Economics minor, and now I am only Management major.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 5, 2017

Wherever you travel, whether it be a new town, a new state, or a new country, there are going to be everyday things that are quite different from where you’re from. Here are a few of the many differences between my home and Rome. Crossing the Street. While there are traffic signals at major intersections, they’re not everywhere. When they aren’t present in Rome, you don’t just stand on the corner waiting for a break in traffic.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 2, 2017

As in every year since the early 2000s, Hope College has had a men’s ice hockey team. Last year, we finished with a great record of 20-5, but unfortunately we lost against the Central Michigan University and did not make it to Nationals. This year has been different. Our record has been 20-9-1, which is by 4 slightly worse than last year, but we have had some big games that we did not have last year.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 20, Dr. Arthur Brooks gave a lecture called “ Let’s Work Together: Restoring Optimism, Unity, and Opportunity. ” The goal of the lecture was sharing of what he thinks are three secrets to successful entrepreneurship. Dr. Arthur Brooks is well respected social scientist and musician, who is currently the president of the American Enterprise Institute or as other people would call, a conservative think tank.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 2, 2017

For the past three or four weeks, I have been a member of the Global Ambassador Program for the international center at Hope. Our goal is to raise awareness and interest in studying abroad. In the case you are interested in this program, you have to study abroad, which is a requirement. Currently, we have about 14 members who has studied abroad as well.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 7, a lecture by a former Hope College student took place in the in Mass about the Immigration Law and current political situation regarding immigrants. The lecture was divided into three sections, Immigration Law , Refugee and Asylum Law , and How do we protect refugees? I found the first part the most fascinating and interesting to me. She started to talk about the border openness 100 years ago in United States.

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