Oct 24, 2013
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...
Sep 18, 2013
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...
Sep 6, 2013
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...
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Aug 16, 2013
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...
Jan 18, 2013
“Well, Mark, I want the students to show up for my class,” stated Lisa. At the start of the new semester, Lisa Blackford decided she wanted to implement an attendance policy in one of her Social Work courses. The idea was to give students 20 points for attendance for...
