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Content tagged: first-year students

Learning Communities: Key Elements for Sustainability

Article: Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Tuesday’s post discussed the goals and core practices of effective learning communities. Today we outline elements of sustainable learning communities as well as some of the challenges of learning community ... Read full story »

Applying Learning Agreements in the Classroom

Article: Monday, July 13th, 2009

As a former editor in the business profession and now educator, I see connections between business and classroom best practices, especially when it comes to using academic learning agreements to ... Read full story »

How to Use the First Day of Class to Set the Tone for Entire Semester

Article: Monday, July 6th, 2009

On top of everything college faculty are responsible for, there’s one that may be easy to overlook or even deem as unnecessary: Teaching students how to be students. Do so ... Read full story »

Should Senior Faculty Teach More Introductory Courses? Boomers and Millennials Have More in Common Than You Might Think

Article: Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

After years of service and moving up through the faculty ranks, senior faculty members often feel they have earned the privilege of concentrating their teaching efforts on upper-division courses, leaving ... Read full story »

Information Literacy: Improving Student Research Skills in a Wikipedia World

Article: Monday, February 23rd, 2009

When you assign your students to write a paper, do they know where to start? Upperclassmen surely do, but what about freshmen? Left to their own devices, they’ll likely turn ... Read full story »

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