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A Few Parting Thoughts As We Reach The End: A Toast To The Teachers, Who Have Faith In A Seed, John C. Bird, Teaching And Learning Center
A Few Parting Thoughts As We Reach The End: A Toast To The Teachers, Who Have Faith In A Seed, John C. Bird, Teaching And Learning Center
The Weekly Reader
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Changing Lives, Having Your Own Life Changed: Reflections On Forty Years As A Teacher, John C. Bird, Teaching And Learning Center
Changing Lives, Having Your Own Life Changed: Reflections On Forty Years As A Teacher, John C. Bird, Teaching And Learning Center
The Weekly Reader
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Coming To The End, This Time For Good: Reflections On Forty Years Of Teaching And Learning, John C. Bird, Teaching And Learning Center
Coming To The End, This Time For Good: Reflections On Forty Years Of Teaching And Learning, John C. Bird, Teaching And Learning Center
The Weekly Reader
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Alternative Facts: Learning Only Happens In The Classroom, Jessica Martin, Amy Phillips, Clarissa Elmore
Alternative Facts: Learning Only Happens In The Classroom, Jessica Martin, Amy Phillips, Clarissa Elmore
Winthrop Conference on Teaching and Learning
Just as learning occurs in the classroom, it also occurs out of the classroom. In Winthrop University’s Department of Residence Life, professional and student staff instructs residential students in the “laboratory of life” with emphases on civility, integrity, communication, conflict management, and community building. With an increased demand from employers looking for students with strong soft skills and the ability to communicate with others, the value of a residential education cannot be overstated. Residential Learning Coordinators get to facilitate this out-of-the-classroom learning regularly. Attend this session to discover ways that Residence Life professional staff blends students’ academic and residential lives …
Cultivating Academic Habits Of Mind: Key Skills For Collegiate Success, Katarina Moyon, Amanda Hiner, Kelly Richardson
Cultivating Academic Habits Of Mind: Key Skills For Collegiate Success, Katarina Moyon, Amanda Hiner, Kelly Richardson
Winthrop Conference on Teaching and Learning
The value of a 21st-century college education comes from the expectation that college graduates are cognitively prepared to deal with complexity, change, and diversity through the application of transferable and practical skills such as written and oral communication and analytic problem-solving. Winthrop University’s General Education Core, consisting of three specific courses completed by all students, provides a shared intellectual experience for students and equips them with powerful, college-level tools in critical reading, critical thinking, and academic writing. Moreover, the Core cultivates valuable academic habits of mind that are particularly valuable in a today’s dynamic world where college graduates …
Facilitating Teacher Reflection Through A Mutual Understanding Of The Characteristics Of Exemplary Teachers, Seth E. Jenny, Geraldine Jenny
Facilitating Teacher Reflection Through A Mutual Understanding Of The Characteristics Of Exemplary Teachers, Seth E. Jenny, Geraldine Jenny
Winthrop Conference on Teaching and Learning
Teachers meet challenges as they make a plethora of daily choices. It is a responsibility to learn from past choices. An exemplary teacher is a person who accepts the challenge of lifelong learning experiences in the domains of Leadership, Diversity, and Technology. Moreover, exemplary teachers must demonstrate competencies in the themes of School Context Expert, Master Practitioner, Learning Theorist, Curriculum Designer, and Instructional Leader (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, 2010, p. 24).
Making the commitment to become an exemplary teacher is a choice one should make with care because it is a decision that will affect the …
Lessons From Linda Nilson: Self-Regulated Learning And How To Help Our Students Learn How To Learn, John C. Bird
Lessons From Linda Nilson: Self-Regulated Learning And How To Help Our Students Learn How To Learn, John C. Bird
The Weekly Reader
This week, lessons on self-regulated learning from Linda Nilson, Clemson University.
Those Funny Academics: Deadlines, Procrastination, And One Last Call For Proposals, John C. Bird
Those Funny Academics: Deadlines, Procrastination, And One Last Call For Proposals, John C. Bird
The Weekly Reader
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Crying In Class, Once Again—Literature, Loneliness, And Our Human Need For Connection, John C. Bird
Crying In Class, Once Again—Literature, Loneliness, And Our Human Need For Connection, John C. Bird
The Weekly Reader
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Here We Go Again—And Again, And Again, And Again: Thoughts On Starting Yet Another Semester, John C. Bird
Here We Go Again—And Again, And Again, And Again: Thoughts On Starting Yet Another Semester, John C. Bird
The Weekly Reader
No abstract provided.