Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Educating the Whole Person “Focusing on character can help many colleges and universities realize their aspirations to educate the whole person and generate the knowledge, capacity and character that our students will need to live and lead well in the 21st century,” says Michael Lamb, program executive, F.
Teaching Matters Student Employment
JULY 30, 2019
Manage relationships during the placement A typical placement might involve four people: the student, an academic supervisor at the University, a supervisor at the host organisation, and somebody at the University who handles any non-academic issues that arise on the placement.
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Experiential Learning Depot
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Student-centered learning helps students build self-direction skills such as organizing details, decision-making, task management, creative problem-solving, finding information, and more. I like to spend the first week or two of school just doing self-direction skills training and I do that with a seminar.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
APRIL 17, 2019
Dr Simon Riley is using it in part of the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) project. Students develop their own set of personal and professional skills and attributes, and often use a blog to reflect on their progress.
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. Having a catalog available to students is a great way to encourage gathering information beyond Wikipedia. There are also subject-specific course options.
Experiential Learning Depot
JULY 4, 2023
I facilitate a women's studies seminar every year, and as a seminar finale, my high school students design self-directed project-based learning experiences around a subtopic of their choice. One year a student chose to self-direct a PBL experience on the topic of domestic violence. . Start here.
Experiential Learning Depot
JULY 24, 2023
It’s super fun to watch them develop and execute their own businesses, especially when they add a community or solutions-based element to the experience. I have had a lot of students develop businesses, but one that stands out amongst the rest was a skateboard company. This is the project-based learning example.
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