Audio Recording Feedback to Students

Audio Recording Feedback to Students

Often there are time constraints in providing detailed and individualized feedback to a large number of students regarding their class participation or a particular assignment.  An audio recording can facilitate your provision of this feedback and allow you to explore...
Covering All The Bases for Student Success:  Beyond Early Feedback

Covering All The Bases for Student Success: Beyond Early Feedback

Amjad Khan and Tracy Russo Given the recent pennant race with many ups and downs for Tigers fans, a baseball metaphor seemed appropriate to frame strategies helping students score in school. Bring home the run Over the many years of my teaching experience, I have...
Student Success Center Early Alert Referral

Student Success Center Early Alert Referral

Great news! The Student Success Center is continuing the Early Alert Referral Pilot that we began over the Summer. Many students can benefit from early intervention with student services. Classroom instructors and student services staff are on the front lines of...
Reaching out to students before they reach challenges

Reaching out to students before they reach challenges

In higher ed, reaching out and making contact with students early on in the semester is a newly promoted strategy for student success.  Reflecting on strategies I’ve seen instructors implement successfully, the old slogan, “reach out and touch...
Clickers Are For Lovers (of learning)

Clickers Are For Lovers (of learning)

From Keith Overbaugh, D.V.M. Science, Biology Instructor I’ve been using a classroom response system (clickers) so long I forgot where or when I was first introduced to them.  The only reason I was drawn to this technology was that I had just realized that the two...