Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning framework for curriculum and course development rooted in three areas: multiple means of representation of...
Professor creates three mental health day assignments
Excused absences for mental health days are growing more common for K-12 learners, but most institutions of higher education don’t allow the same flexibility. One professor shares how he offers—and holds students accountable for—mental health breaks.
Relationship-Rich Education with Isis Artze-Vega - Intentional Teaching (podcast)
00:39:02 - Isis Artze-Vega is college provost and vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College, a public college in Florida with over 40,000 student…
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Todd Zakrajsek, Director, Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching Key Statement: There is an almost infinite number of things a teacher can do to help those who have been too often left behind by the current educational system. Start by simply thinking about learners in our classes, areas of struggle they may face, and how we might mitigate those areas. Keywords: Student Success, UDL, Equity Introduction Education has an inherent, systemic bias that is even wider than often thought. Why do
Creating a Course Calendar that Aligns to the Rhythms of the Semester
What most of us need is a strategic, instructionally sound set of action items to help guide our decision making and provide a framework for our course.
One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with i
Continuing-generation college students are often better prepared by their family and peer networks for academic success than first-gen students with more limited support networks. In this episode, Elizabeth Canning and Makita White join us to discuss their research on differences in academic and non-academic help-seeking behaviors between first-gen and continuing generation students.
A memoir about life 'in the margins,' 'Class' picks up where 'Maid' left off
"As a country, we don't like giving poor people money and that's what they need the most," says author Stephanie Land. Her 2019 memoir Maid inspired a 10-part Netflix series.
Respondents to the newest Student Voice survey seem to value passion as much as practicality in preparing for a career and expect moderate to high levels of support from professors and academic advisers in this area. Students also weigh in on what career centers are doing right—and could be doing better.