Posts Tagged ‘first-year students’
February 14 - Perspectives in Understanding Online Teaching and Learning Strategies for First-Year Generation Y Students
By: Loren Kleinman in Online Education
There is an overwhelming amount of literature that addresses strategies to develop and facilitate teaching and learning in the online classroom as a way to engage and retain first-year students. Students and faculty in the online classroom are faced with a unique situation: classes without a physical classroom. Professors are also faced with a unique situation: creating a unified class that is engaged and well informed on the structure of the course in order to create a total learning environment (Quitadamo and Brown 2001).
November 5 - Learning Communities: Key Elements for Sustainability
By: Barbara Leigh Smith in Learning Communities
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 development.
July 13 - Applying Learning Agreements in the Classroom
By: Loren Kleinman in Teaching and Learning
As a former editor in the business profession and now educator, I see connections between business and classroom best practices, especially applying professional development plans and performance reflection exercises as academic learning agreements in order to promote student leadership and engagement.
July 6 - How to Use the First Day of Class to Set the Tone for Entire Semester
By: Mary Bart in Effective Classroom Management
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 at your peril because most students need a little help understanding and practicing the skills and behaviors they need to succeed.
April 23 - Should Senior Faculty Teach More Introductory Courses? Boomers and Millennials Have More in Common Than You Might Think
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership, Learning Styles
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 the introductory courses to younger faculty members. It seems fair enough: If you stick around long enough, you will be able to teach the courses you enjoy most. But is it the best arrangement for students?
February 23 - Information Literacy: Improving Student Research Skills in a Wikipedia World
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development, Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching and Learning
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 to Google and Wikipedia as their main research tools, and may never even set foot in the library if they can help it.
