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The Writing On The Wall: Celebrating National Day On Writing At Hostos Community College, Andrea Fabrizio, Linda Hirsch
The Writing On The Wall: Celebrating National Day On Writing At Hostos Community College, Andrea Fabrizio, Linda Hirsch
Touchstone
Since its participation in the 1999 CUNY Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) Initiative, Hostos has sought to foster a campus-wide recognition of the value of writing and its place in the academic, professional and personal lives of both faculty and students. Today, with over 75 Writing Intensive (WI) sections, an appreciation of the connection between reading and writing, ongoing professional development, and WAC principles and practices incorporated into both Englishlanguage and Spanish-language courses across a wide range of disciplines, Hostos has made great strides in fulfilling the CUNY Board of Trustees mandate to provide students with frequent and meaningful opportunities to write. As …
Creating Venues For Student Interactions With The Community College, Flor Henderson
Creating Venues For Student Interactions With The Community College, Flor Henderson
Touchstone
No abstract provided.
Confessions Of A Wac (Writing Across The Curriculum) Groupie, Sandy Figueroa
Confessions Of A Wac (Writing Across The Curriculum) Groupie, Sandy Figueroa
Touchstone
No abstract provided.
Questioning Cliches: Gender Analysis In History, Ernest Ialongo
Questioning Cliches: Gender Analysis In History, Ernest Ialongo
Touchstone
No abstract provided.
A Phenomenographic Study Of Introductory Physics Students: Approaches To Their Learning And Perceptions Of Their Learning Environment In A Physics Problem-Based Learning Environment, Paul Irving
Doctoral
This phenomenographic study describes students’ approaches to learning and their perceptions of the learning environment in an introductory physics course which is taught using a problem-based learning approach. This research builds on previous studies which showed that these students develop a greater conceptual knowledge than their counterparts in a more traditional learning environment while others showed very little development even though they engaged fully with the pedagogy. This study aimed to examine and describe the students’ approaches to learning. The definitions of surface, strategic and deep approaches to learning are not appropriate in this context and could not be applied …
Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Faculty Publications
In a worldwide training broadcast, Elder W. Rolfe Kerr taught, “We cannot expect our students to learn all that we hope they will learn by just hearing a concept or principle one time. Multiple presentations, utilizing various approaches, often appealing to multiple senses, increase the likelihood of our students actually learning and internalizing the concepts we teach.”