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Classroom Asessment: Guidelines For Success, Thomas A. Angelo
Classroom Asessment: Guidelines For Success, Thomas A. Angelo
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This essay defines and gives examples of Classroom Assessment and Classroom Research and provides guidelines for faculty based upon 15 years of research and practice.
Integrating Learning Strategies Into Teaching, Terry Doyle
Integrating Learning Strategies Into Teaching, Terry Doyle
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Students often lack the strategies needed to effectively learn course content. Integrating the teaching of “learning how to learn” strategies into course content is the best way for students to be successful.
Teaching In Action: Multicultural Education As The Highest Form Of Understanding, Christine A. Stanley
Teaching In Action: Multicultural Education As The Highest Form Of Understanding, Christine A. Stanley
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To enhance the multicultural understanding of students, this essay offers conceptions and suggestions relating to course and curricular change. We can indeed all practice multicultural teaching!
Cooperative Learning: May The Circle Be Unbroken, Barbara J. Millis
Cooperative Learning: May The Circle Be Unbroken, Barbara J. Millis
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Fueled by new discoveries in cognitive development and the thrust toward active learning in general, cooperative learning in higher education is now widely accepted and widely practiced.
Academic Service-Learning: Myths, Challenges, And Recommendations, Jeffrey Howard
Academic Service-Learning: Myths, Challenges, And Recommendations, Jeffrey Howard
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This essay reviews the essential elements of curriculum-based service-learning – meaningful community service, enhanced student learning, and preparation for democratic citizenship – as well as myths, challenges, and recommendations associated with this pedagogy.
Exploring Student Expectations, Janet Gail Donald, James Wilkinson
Exploring Student Expectations, Janet Gail Donald, James Wilkinson
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What do professors need to know about students to empower them as learners? We explore the dimensions of understanding students in terms of their goals, roles and the way they spend their time.
Teaching With Hospitality, John B. Bennett
Teaching With Hospitality, John B. Bennett
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Fortunately, hospitality is practiced more than it is preached. A cardinal academic virtue, hospitality is essential in the classroom as well as in relationships with colleagues. This essay looks at why this is so.
Emotion Inthe Classroom, Edward Vela
Emotion Inthe Classroom, Edward Vela
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Theories of cognition give little attention to the role of emotion. Nevertheless, affect is intimately involved in learning. As educators we must understand emotional aspects of the learning environment.