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Results for Related Topic: student retention
"Generation NeXt Comes to College: 2006 Updates and Emergin Issues"
http://www.taylorprograms.org/images/Gen_NeXt_arti
cle_HLC_06.pdf
Focuses on Generation NeXt in academics and workplace readiness, the rising impact of technology, internationalization and accountability pressures, overviews my suggested change Initiatives, and offers an overview of my model of Postmodern Education.
"I Hear You, Do You Hear Me?" Teaching in Racially Diverse Classrooms
http://ctlracialdivers.project.mnscu.edu/
We face an ever-growing population of diverse students. Education, learning, and classroom experiences need to work in concert with this changing and unique student. In this tutorial, Dr. Tuitt guides educators toward a better understanding of how new approaches to classroom learning can meet the needs of the changing student population.
"Student Retention of Course Content Is Improved by Collaborative-Group Testing"
http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/27/3/
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Report on findings from a research project led by Ronald N. Cortight, an assistant professor of health and human performance at East Carolina University published in the APS (American Physiological Society) online journal (2003).
"The Challenge of Diversity: Alienation in the Academy and Its Implications for Faculty"
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/diversity.htm
An evaluation of "current research and theory related to diversity in higher education, that is, diversity in terms of the various student populations now considered nontraditional, including racial and ethnic minorities, adult learners, women, and people with physical and learning disabilities."
Adjunctnation
http://www.adjunctnation.com/
Online and hard copy magazine, blog, job listings and more just for adjuncts.
Adjunctopia
http://www.adjunctopia.com/profile/userseller/f_re
gister_new.asp?bhcp=1
Adjunctopia supplies tools for colleges and universities to locate, communicate with, train, and evaluate qualified professionals:
College Board Study on Student Retention
http://pas.indiana.edu/cb/resources.cfm
The College Board Pilot Study on Student Retention, funded by the College Board, is identifying key campus policies and practices as well as student behaviors associated with first-year-to-second-year student retention. This is a clearinghouse of resources and scholarship about that task.
Connect With English
http://www.learner.org/resources/series71.html
A video instructional series in English as a second language (ESL) for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 50 fifteen-minute video programs and coordinated books
Through the story of Rebecca, an aspiring singer on a journey across America, Connect With English touches on life’s important issues: leaving home, parenting, education, work, love, success, and loss. All of the characters use meaningful, natural language that students can put to work immediately in their own lives. Each episode features dialogue that is slightly slowed down and subtly simplified. Key lines are repeated, idioms paraphrased, and important events retold. There are constant visual clues to meaning, such as written signs, notes, and documents. Facial expressions, gestures, and body language also reveal meaning for students. Closed captioning can be used as a teaching and literacy resource. For levels from high beginning through low and high intermediate.
Produced by WGBH Boston with books from the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1998.
Distance Education Reports and Abstracts
http://itcnetwork.org/reports.htm
This site of reports and abstracts on topics of importance in the field of distance education is posnsored by the Instructional Technology Council of the American Associaon of Community Colleges.
Intercultural Learning in First-Year Seminars
http://www.diversityweb.org/Digest/vol9n
o2/tahamont.cfm
Curriculum transformation is not easy. It requires a well-articulated plan with a specific set of goals. In addition, as Sandra Kanter has written, transformation must be an ongoing process, “not a one time event but . . . a continuing effort in which each iteration deepens or improves upon some aspect of the curriculum” (2000, 6). This type of transformation is what Rowan University has been trying to achieve through the Bildner New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative.
Intercultural Learning in First-Year Seminars
http://www.diversityweb.org/Digest/vol9n
o2/tahamont.cfm
Curriculum transformation is not easy. It requires a well-articulated plan with a specific set of goals. In addition, as Sandra Kanter has written, transformation must be an ongoing process, “not a one time event but . . . a continuing effort in which each iteration deepens or improves upon some aspect of the curriculum” (2000, 6). This type of transformation is what Rowan University has been trying to achieve through the Bildner New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative.
Is Student Mediocrity Acceptable?
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/podcast
In a previous podcast, a college professor spoke about accepting student mediocrity as inevitable. In this linked podcast you will hear from a professor who believes it's his duty to challenge his students.Frequent questioning of his student's perceptions is a trademark of his lecture classes, which is not something one might expect in a class with 140 students. He won't let them merely spout opinions but insists they back up their views. As you will hear, he challenges interviewers
too. This week's podcast is my conversation with Austin Sarat professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College for over 30 years.
Learning to Write in All Fields
http://vfc8.project.mnscu.edu/
This tutorial offers strategies to help ensure that students learn and retain more in your field or discipline through both individual and small-group writing activities. You'll construct writing assignments to facilitate class discussion, lectures, and experiments, and to encourage critical thinking. You'll also develop assessments standards to share with students so that they can effectively gauge their achievement.
Magna Publications is pleased to announce the debut of its newest resource for higher education: Community College Leader.
http://www.magnapubs.com/pub/magnapubs_ccl/?s=ff&a
mp;?p=MFCFEZ
This all-new addition to Magna's newsletter family is the one publication that focuses on advancing the careers of community college decision-makers with insightful coverage of key community colleges issues. With twelve issues per year, this monthly newsletter provides community college decision makers with successful ideas and techniques practiced by their colleagues nationwide. The publication covers topics such as
distance education, online vs. in-person instruction, staff training, facility planning, leadership, community relations, and embracing diversity.
MIT Open Courseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
A free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Multicultural Approaches to Curriculum: Active, Deep, and Engaging Learning
Weekly Update from CTL 2-19-07
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/programs/leaders/newslett
er/newsletter2-19-07.html
At the classroom level, faculty in every discipline can take multicultural approaches to the curriculum; they can work to engage all students in active and deep learning activities; and they can join students and colleagues in multicultural extracurricular and cocurricular activities, in order to demonstrate a commitment to the intercultural world of the 21 st century—and help to realize the potential of all students.
My Story, Your Story: Building Respect for Diversity in the Classroom
http://vfc14.project.mnscu.edu/
Understanding one's own attitudes and values about diversity is essential to understanding, appreciating, and responding to differences in others. An individual's level of diversity awareness influences choices made in curriculum design as well as classroom strategies to respond to differences (e.g., gender identity, ethnicity, religion, age, socio-economic level, race). This tutorial focuses on measures to enhance faculty members' and students' level of diversity awareness as a means for meeting the challenges and difficulties of difference in the classroom.
Study Guides and Strategies
http://www.studygs.net/
The Study Guides and Strategies Web site is authored, developed and maintained by Joe Landsberger, life-long resident of
the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, as an educational public service. These student guides are collaboratively maintained across institutional and national boundaries, and are revised often. This site portrays educational research in an understandable and accessible form to help learners help themselves.
Permission is granted to freely copy, adapt, and distribute individual Study Guides in print format in non-commercial educational settings that benefit learners.
Teaching First Year Students: Building Success for the Following Years
Weekly Update from CTL 2-05-07
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/programs/leaders/newslett
er/newsletter2-5-07.html
First-year students are often struggling with developing competence, managing their emotions, and developing relationships, among other developmental tasks. All of this means that a college teacher may have to work harder in order to teach these students most effectively. Building rapport with students can have a positive effect on their entire college career.
Teaching First Year Students: Building Success for the Following Years
Weekly Update from CTL 2-05-07
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/programs/leaders/newslett
er/newsletter2-5-07.html
First-year students are often struggling with developing competence, managing their emotions, and developing relationships, among other developmental tasks. All of this means that a college teacher may have to work harder in order to teach these students most effectively. Building rapport with students can have a positive effect on their entire college career.
Teaching Goals...Online
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecenteach/tgi/index.html
Assess your teaching goals by taking this short online inventory authored by Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross provided by the University of Iowa.
The Faculty-Student Relationship: Changes in Teaching and Learning
Weekly Update from CTL 2-12-07
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/programs/leaders/newslett
er/newsletter2-12-07.html
There exists a correlation between faculty-student interaction and overall student academic success. Faculty represent models of a particular life-style and a style of interpersonal behavior that vary from what students bring with them when they enter college. Faculty influence students in many different ways, inside and outside of the classroom in roles that vary considerably by institution type.
The Faculty-Student Relationship: Changes in Teaching and Learning
Weekly Update from CTL 2-12-07
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/programs/leaders/newslett
er/newsletter2-12-07.html
There exists a correlation between faculty-student interaction and overall student academic success. Faculty represent models of a particular life-style and a style of interpersonal behavior that vary from what students bring with them when they enter college. Faculty influence students in many different ways, inside and outside of the classroom in roles that vary considerably by institution type.
The Learning Classroom: Theory Into Practice
http://www.learner.org/resources/series172.html
A video course for K-12 teachers; 13 half-hour video programs, print guide, and Web site; graduate credit available
This video-based course is an exploration of learning theory—appropriate for grades K-12 and all subject areas—for the training of preservice teachers and the professional development of inservice teachers. Hosted by Stanford University professor Linda Darling-Hammond, the 13 half-hour programs illustrate a variety of learning theories with applications to classroom practice. A Web site and print guide supplement the videos, with background readings, questions for discussion, and ongoing assignments that bring theory into practice.
Produced by Detroit Public Television and Mort Crim Communications. 2003.
