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Empowering Your Students’ Agency Through Ungrading Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

This formative feedback gives students contextual advice for growth and deeper learning (Blum, 2020; Sackstein, 2020). Students feel they can take risks and become more exploratory in their learning since they no longer feel pressured to aim for the exact work needed to pass the course. References Blum, S. Feldstein, L.,

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Report: Caring Campus Program Tied to Increased Connection for Students and Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“People, in different ways, became less connected, and there were fewer students coming back to college and so on. So I think a lot of institutional leaders have been concerned about making sure students develop that sense of connection.

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Flipped Classrooms: A Next Generation Nursing Case Study

The Scholarly Teacher

Students are given activities, such as discussion, group presentations, case studies, etc. During the post-class phase, students are provided with quizzes or assignments to fill in the gaps from the previous phases (Al-Samarraie et al., Higher assessment scores were observed for these students, but student perceptions were mixed.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Courses bound into teacher preparation programs offer opportunities to connect students’ academic lives to their growing professional identities as educators and are a necessary component of MSI pedagogy (Ostorga, Zúñiga, & Hinton, 2020). Small changes to class time can better connect underserved students to university resources.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For generations, STEM education has remained an integral approach to learning and development, helping students develop the critical thinking tools that are vital to an ever-evolving world. According to STEMEducationGuide.com, a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, as of 2020, over 10.2

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NASPA Survey Reveals Further Declines in Campus Mental Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the problem, with over 60% of college students meeting the criteria for at least one mental health issue in the 2020-21 school year. Dunkle believes that college administrations can create programming to help students develop life skills and connect with each other.

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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

This required me to develop the capacity to say what I am really thinking and feeling, unlike what happens many times when white people enter into relationships with people of color. As Feagin (2020) has documented, white people have front-stage and backstage conversations about race. Routledge. , [link] Kupo,V. & Oxendine, S.(2019).