Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 16, 2024
Panelists praised what the IRT did for them, discussing how the organization bolstered what they knew about the teaching profession, expanded their professional networks, and helped them understand key educational concepts. When we are in the classroom, when we are teaching children who look like us, our students do better,” she said.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 9, 2024
Jaeger and Colclough began a case study that has blossomed into a full program, run by and for faculty, that’s creating peer communities, meeting regional needs, and moving the needle on student retention, persistence, and graduation rates: The North Carolina Teaching and Learning Hubs. We’re faculty led, driven, and focused.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 6, 2024
This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning]. Historically, those hired to teach at the university level complete the required studies in a given discipline. Moreover, our group was not alone in our thinking.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 23, 2024
Despite decreasing interest for working in education, enrollment trends for the two states’ high school introductory teaching courses complicated the story. According to the report, enrollment in Tennessee’s Teaching as a Profession courses has been on the rise from 2018 to 2022, alongside the number of schools offering such courses.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
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. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2022
A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. Gershenson and Griffin agreed that white faculty also need better training to teach and mentor an increasingly diverse student body. Even small, one-off exposures matter,” he said.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
The 3E Program aims to teach unfiltered American history by combining ethics, empathy, and empowerment, the three Es. All instruction will be virtual, live, and accessible across the country. Meeting the New York state standards for U.S. I want this program to be impactful, to change mindsets. I’m hoping for a positive change.
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