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Atman, Cynthia J. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
This paper presents two reflection activities that supported the creation of community and a sense of caring for students learning in an online environment in the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first activity, students indicated how they were feeling in terms of hope/despair, stress/calm and energy level in a "check-in" slide at the beginning…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Caring, Reflection, Web Based Instruction
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Johnston, Joseph B. – Teaching Sociology, 2020
The U.S. K-12 public education system is fundamentally unequal. What efforts can facilitate students to become deeply immersed in the realities of the system and to embody the need for social change? This article investigates scaffolded, semester-long writing assignments to demonstrate patterns in the three tenets of critical community-engaged…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Service Learning, School Community Relationship, Social Justice
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Krause, Alan J.; Moore, Sarah Y. – College Teaching, 2022
In the shift from on campus to online education, liberal arts colleges have lost much of the interaction among students that fosters student engagement, learning, and satisfaction. We present an online, student peer-to-peer mentoring program that creates learning partnerships between students and recreates this vital cocurricular learning online.…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Satisfaction
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Silva, Cecila; Kucer, Stephen – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2016
This research examines the impact of field experiences with English language learners on the conceptual and emotional development of preservice disciplinary students. For one semester, preservice university students worked with English language learners enrolled in middle and high school Newcomer Programs. During this time the university students…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Field Experience Programs, Program Effectiveness, Preservice Teachers
Koppelman, Nancy – Liberal Education, 2013
At colleges and universities, thinking one's own thoughts is at the heart of all the other activity that, together, constitutes a liberal education. Self-examination and reflection enable people to make sense of the world and their places in it. Each individual can experience the mind as it grasps its own dynamics and spawns deep and unique…
Descriptors: General Education, Higher Education, College Students, Thinking Skills
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Johnson, Eric J. – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
This article illustrates the experiences of teachers who conducted home visits as a way to cultivate sustainable avenues of school-home communication with families from an immigrant and/or language-minority background. The data stemming from these experiences are used to outline a sociocultural approach to conducting home visits and strengthening…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Family School Relationship, Immigrants, Language Minorities
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Konukman, Ferman; Schneider, Robert C. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2012
Academic Service Learning (ASL) is a non-traditional experiential learning model where students gain experience through community involvement and reflection, and ultimately are able to link community service to academic study. Students understand related course content and civic responsibility via a period of highly structured reflection. This…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Service Learning
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Nicholas, Trula Morehead; Baker-Sennett, Jacquelyn; McClanahan, Lauren; Harwood, Angela – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This study describes how a community-based interprofessional education approach designed to engage preservice teachers with community members and human services professionals contributes to preservice teachers' inquiry skills and their understanding of interprofessional collaboration. Preservice teachers were enrolled in a research methods course…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Teaching Methods, Cooperation, Research Methodology
Schaffhauser, Dian – Campus Technology, 2009
The Obama administration has put the development of longitudinal data systems that track student progress from preschool through college and beyond at the heart of its education reform initiatives, and the use of ePortfolios could prove to be central to these efforts. At their most basic, ePortfolios provide an online repository for students to…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Change, Reflection, Portfolios (Background Materials)
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education
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Condon, William – Assessing Writing, 2009
Establishing the score or the placement as the first priority in a writing assessment leads to more reductive forms of writing assessment. However, if the prompts used in a direct test of writing were generative--that is, if they asked test-takers to analyze their own experiences as writers or learners, for example--the resulting texts would be…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Reflection, Undergraduate Students
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2014
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Learner Engagement, National Surveys, College Seniors
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Okawa, Gail Y.; Fox, Thomas; Chang, Lucy J. Y.; Windsor, Shana R.; Chavez, Frank Bella, Jr.; Hayes, LaGuan – Writing Center Journal, 2010
Everyone involved in writing centers must recognize that the educational community of the 1990s will continue to grow more diverse culturally, linguistically, scholastically. Given this diversity, students, teachers, and tutors will become more, not less, interdependent. The ready, predictable answers and assumptions that existed once in a…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Peer Teaching, Tutoring