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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random House.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random House.

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Advancing Online Graduate Education: Integrating Quality Matters Feedback to Enhance Course Templates 

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By developing the course template to meet QM standards, UF CJC Online aims to create a more engaging and effective learning environment so students have clear learning objectives, appropriate assessments and learning activities, and high-quality instructional materials.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

Scholarly Teacher

Findings To better understand implicit linguistic biases, with approval from the Institutional Review Board, we conducted a thematic analysis of feedback provided to instructors informed by the following questions from our program’s feedback review lenses (Cavazos et al., Texas Education Review , 12 (2), 82–95. Cavazos, A.

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Advancing Online Graduate Education: Integrating Quality Matters Feedback to Enhance Course Templates 

Faculty Focus

By developing the course template to meet QM standards, UF CJC Online aims to create a more engaging and effective learning environment so students have clear learning objectives, appropriate assessments and learning activities, and high-quality instructional materials.

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Enhancing a sense of belonging in the classroom

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Belonging is defined by Carol Goodenow as “A sense of belonging is defined as being accepted, valued, included and encouraged by others in the academic classroom and of feeling oneself to be an important part of the life and activity of class.” Participants will select a partner to act as both their accountability and peer review partner.

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The Censored and the Curious: Using Banned Books to Foster Connections and Critical Thinking in Freshmen

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Including a culminating presentation on each of the banned books in the syllabus can help communicate the importance of these book clubs while continuing to strengthen student communication, presentation skills, and cooperative skills. All 70 students chose a different focus that they felt a strong, personal connection to.