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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

What Worked Structure The development of the FToC Summit began with our planning team, which included BIPOC teacher educators who represented diverse identity groups and educational experiences. In January 2020, we secured $3,000 to fund the FToC Summit; however, the pandemic caused the event to go virtual. link] Easton-Brooks, D.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

Here, two of our presenters Dr Karen Gravett and Tim Fawns , reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the third symposium on ‘Assemblages’. I think we are then less likely to develop practices that attune to wider contexts and possibilities. Her latest books are: Gravett, K.

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Doctoral Borderlands: an exploration of doctoral education and its possible futures

SRHE

What it is to be a doctoral student and what it means to do a doctorate is evolving, and traditional stereotypes, of young, full-time, funded students are no longer fit for purpose. We suggest their teaching should be shaped by a professional development programme. Harry Rolf.

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10 Steps to Increase Study Abroad Participation

Study Aborad Association

Student engagement is important and helps build a community for travelers at the school. Those who studied abroad in the prior semesters can share their stories and photos to other students looking to participate in upcoming programs. Organize a Faculty Development Workshop. crêpes for a trip to France). Want more help?

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Can Video Games Provide Meaningful Learning Experiences?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Develop a healthy skepticism about how popular culture depicts the past while learning how to assess the games’ accuracies and inaccuracies. Topics that many video games address include the development of trading networks, military and geopolitical diplomatic maneuvering and the influence of geography and technology.

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Make it possible for instructors to provide more individualized feedback and to participate in more student engagement activities (like student-faculty lunches or co-curricular activities), by, for example, shifting from 3 to 4 credit hour classes and giving faculty access to modest student engagement funds.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In a sustainability projects elective course at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire, “all the students want to know what they can do,” says Joshua Cline, an adjunct professor who teaches the course, along with a seminar for juniors and a senior capstone. ” asked one student at a public university in California.

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