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How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom? Program includes a CD with the video presentation, plus supplemental materials, PowerPoint slides, and complete transcript • $99 We’ve all encountered “toxic” learning environments–apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. But of course, that’s far
Winning Students’ Hearts and Minds the Latest Campus Safety Approach
Campus security is not normally an issue that is discussed in conjunction with faculty members. Typically, campus safety is relegated to the purview of administrators and campus police. Few professors receive substantial training on ways to enhance campus safety through what occurs in their classrooms. This view needs to change in order to respond to current realities and to incorporate the recommendations of the latest research on campus safety.
What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security
By creating a campus climate that allows frequent and meaningful faculty-student interaction, you greatly increase the odds that students in need of assistance will be recognized early enough to prevent major problems—or even violence—from occurring at your school. This white paper explains methods for fostering essential relationships between professors and students.
Being Ariadne: Helping Students Find Their Way
Thinking and writing metaphorically is often a recommended way to clarify one’s approach to teaching. Having a particular mental image provides a reference point, or compass, to guide teaching decisions and actions. There are many interesting and colorful characters in Greek mythology that might serve as possible metaphorical models for teaching faculty.
5 Ways to Create Nonthreatening Distance Learning Courses While Maintaining High Academic Standards
Instructors who are new to the online classroom often struggle with the issue of how to be rigorous while creating a safe learning environment, and mistakenly think, “You can be nice or demanding, but somehow you can’t be both.” “That’s absolutely not true,” says Andrea Sanders, associate professor of English at Chattanooga State Technical Community College…
