Implementing College Success Skills into your Classroom
This NPR article from Kamenetz (2015) discusses research on how students actively writing down their motivations and goals can positively impact academic achievement. Some research has shown how goal-setting writing assignments can help minority students overcome stereotype threat.
This Inside Higher Ed article from Roll (2017) explains how asking students to set tangible goals for their schoolwork results in better learning outcomes than focusing on letter grades.
This Ed Surge article from Connolly (2017) opens with a discussion on how college students showed relatively little improvement in critical thinking skills. The article continues with explaining the need for college courses to embed critical thinking skills that require students to ask questions and seek out information on their own.
| Course Preview | Course Description |
|---|---|
| TALT 3005: Foundations of Active Learning | This course equips participants to link learning science with active learning theories and practices. It enables them to design engaging, discipline-specific lessons by exploring various active learning strategies and using technology for interactive experiences. |
| TALT 3007: Improving Questioning Techniques | Well-designed questions prompt critical thinking. This workshop will teach participants to construct such questions for discussions and written work. Participants will learn a framework for “preparing, posing, and pondering” questions, analyze sample questions, and create their own. |
| TALT 3011: Impacting Active Learning through Metacognition | Metacognition, the awareness of one’s thought processes, significantly influences learning. This course explores metacognitive awareness, its impact on learning, and its integration into active learning. Participants will apply metacognitive principles to their teaching practices. |
| TALT 3014: Pedagogical Strategies of Engagement | Research indicates that students lose focus within fifteen to twenty minutes of a lecture. This workshop offers strategies to incorporate active learning techniques into lectures, enhancing student engagement and learning, while utilizing a backward design approach for assessment. |
| TALT 3018: Learning Theory | Analyze and evaluate learning theory research and its implication for educational practice. Develop skills to design and implement effective learning experiences grounded in learning theory, using instructional strategies, technologies, and assessment tools. |
| TALT 3019: Active Learning in Online Courses | This orientation covers best practices in online education from the perspectives of students, faculty, and institutions. It emphasizes adult learning theory, online learning communities, technology integration, expectations, assessment, evaluation, and communication. Participants learn to identify and apply these practices in their online teaching. |