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Teaching Office Hour: How Can Profs Support Students Who Come In With Poor Writing Skills?

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You can pose a question for a future column here. Kerry Moore, assistant professor of social work at Vanguard University of Southern California Let me start by saying that I hear this question frequently. The fact that you are inquiring means that you care about supporting your students in developing these vital skills.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

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In addition to mid-semester check-in techniques, I try to incorporate at least one low stake active learning strategy instead of direct teaching. We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture.

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Microlectures 101: What, Why, & How?

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Zheng (2022) also explains that the interactive nature of microlectures (where students are prompted to engage in active learning activities) enhances student learning. Finally, microlectures allow faculty to create a library of reusable content (Scagnoli, 2012). iPads are also great for creating microlectures!

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

Faculty Focus

In addition to mid-semester check-in techniques, I try to incorporate at least one low stake active learning strategy instead of direct teaching. We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. 2019) How to avoid cognitive overload during learning. Active learning.

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