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Can Colleges Do More to Help Students Succeed?

ED Surge

Near the beginning of every semester, Sarah Z. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first. While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin.

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International Women’s Day: Digital & Printable Resources

All About STEM

Celebrate International Women’s Day in the lead up to the 8th of March with these fantastic resources! This year’s theme is Accelerate Action: “Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality.” – IWD Let’s forge a diverse, equal, equitable, and inclusive world together!

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Student Choice: Why Students Should Choose Their Own Books

Teach Hub

When students are allowed to pick the books they read, something magical happens. They become more engaged, motivated, and confident readers. When you think back to your own classroom experience, being assigned a book to read as a class was often a dreadful experience. Teachers would assign students to read a classic like Tom Sawyer and instead of being enamored with this classic tale, students were often less than thrilled.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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A Strategy to Help MLs with Sentence Transition

Middle Web

Tan Huynh shares an effective, easy-to-implement process to teach multilinguals how to organize their academic writing by building sentence-by-sentence transitions. See how he leads students through the process of applying time-based transitions and subordinating conjunctions. The post A Strategy to Help MLs with Sentence Transition first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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