Helping Student Succeed

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Learn from Gen Z’s social media use to engage their attention. Keep it bite-sized and high-impact – and leave them wanting more

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Elizabeth Grimm, Hope College Keywords: Feedback, Formative Assessment, Student Growth Key Statement: Instructors can enhance student achievement by transitioning from evaluative to descriptive feedback, offering clear guidance for student improvement and deeper comprehension.Introduction Instructors possess the power to support student's growth mindset and sense of competence while also improving student achievement by adjusting how they give feedback to students (Akpinar & Özalp, 2023; Hattie

In today’s digital world, teaching your students the art of writing an email is a must. Explore lesson ideas, videos, and resources to help.

58K likes, 1,978 comments - gerrybrooksprin on April 13, 2024: "Hope this helps everyone. Tag your friends and colleagues and by all means, please share!". United Airlines, flight, airport, parking lot, TSA

Annotation can be a powerful way to improve comprehension and increase engagement, but its effectiveness can vary depending on how it's taught.

Jody Green discusses faculty’s role in student success on episode 515 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

From sketching comics to drafting tweets, these fun—and fast—ways to check for understanding are creative and flexible.

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Explore how schools today are adopting the tools of tomorrow

Grades and deadlines don’t have to be the bad guys of college teaching.

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A podcast where three questions spark unlimited ways of thinking about what happens in our classrooms.

Todd Zakrajsek, Director, Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching Key Statement: There is an almost infinite number of things a teacher can do to help those who have been too often left behind by the current educational system. Start by simply thinking about learners in our classes, areas of struggle they may face, and how we might mitigate those areas. Keywords: Student Success, UDL, Equity Introduction Education has an inherent, systemic bias that is even wider than often thought. Why do

One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with i

Continuing-generation college students are often better prepared by their family and peer networks for academic success than first-gen students with more limited support networks. In this episode, Elizabeth Canning and Makita White join us to discuss their research on differences in academic and non-academic help-seeking behaviors between first-gen and continuing generation students.

"As a country, we don't like giving poor people money and that's what they need the most," says author Stephanie Land. Her 2019 memoir Maid inspired a 10-part Netflix series.