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Incorporating Virtual Instructional Strategies that Increase Student Engagement

The Scholarly Teacher

Well, if you're not paying attention during Zoom meetings, why do we expect our students to be any different? The pandemic has changed how faculty design courses, whether face-to-face, hybrid, hi-flex, or online. The challenge now is how to keep students on-task and engaged with the content. Synchronous Instruction.

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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Key Statement : Intentionally developing a welcoming classroom environment increases student engagement and cultivates meaningful classroom relationships. Keywords: engagement, motivation, relationship. Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

The diversity and multicultural nature of today’s college classroom calls for use of culturally responsive practices to improve student engagement and learning (Mohammad & Nordin, 2017). Faculty as Facilitator Creation of an inclusive classroom is arguably achieved in any discipline from a faculty-as-facilitator approach.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Key statement: This post offers suggestions about ways faculty can improve student learning experiences at MSIs with small changes to classroom practices. Introduction Minority-Serving (MSIs) enroll high percentages of students facing systemic barriers to higher education access. Briwa , Angelo State University.

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Create an Engaged Classroom Using Four Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Although instructors may be accustomed to methods of engaging students in a face-to-face environment, creating an engaging virtual classroom can be challenging. According to Schaufeli (2013), engagement refers to involvement, focused effort, dedication, and absorption. Employee engagement in theory and practice.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. Wright College, part of the City Colleges of Chicago, is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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How Scholarship, Service, and Experience Inform One Professor's Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Undergraduate students engage in research about a wide range of subjects including the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) History Project. The faculty person overseeing his project encouraged him to attend graduate school, which he did, earning a Ph.D. in social personality psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center.

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