Retaining students starts with experiences in the classroom and interactions with faculty. In this session, faculty will share their teaching practices that promote student retention, including setting expectations, writing a clear syllabus and schedule, changes to late policies, and supporting reluctant learners.
This session explores three distinct ways faculty infused experiential learning into their classrooms. We will explore topics such as telecollaboration, enthusiastic engagement, getting students to participate beyond their comfort zones, and real-world based projects.
Getting students to engage in class can be difficult but establishing a positive classroom community can go a long way to help with that. In this session, you’ll hear about a few strategies that have proven to be successful. Through a variety of classroom activities and practices, students have been able to make strong connections to their peers and their instructors.
Educators are increasingly called upon by the public and the press to sharpen students’ digital literacy skills. In this session, faculty and librarians will address strategies and resources that can be easily incorporated across the curriculum to teach digital literacy.
Giving students a voice in how their learning is structured can make their learning journey more relevant, meaningful and enjoyable. During this session, you’ll hear how student-designed lessons and assessments were successfully implemented in two very different disciplines. Through a series of scaffolded assignments, biology lab students designed their own experiments as the culminating activity in the course. Art students worked in groups to design assignments for classmates and grade peers’ final presentation of the resulting work.