Maryville College: Combining Forces in Students’ Career Preparation
Q: What are your college’s goals for participating in the Consortium? A: Teaching is the highest priority category in faculty evaluations at Maryville College. The educational goals of our Core Curriculum focus on “cultivation of transformative habits of mind” and development of “capacity for critical, creative dispositions.” ACUE’s active learning and higher order thinking approaches […]
Connecting With Online Students Midsemester Using YouTube, Reflective Self-Evaluations, and DAPPS Goal-Setting Techniques
By Amy Clark During the summer semester, I reached out to learners across my online courses by creating a 5-minute YouTube video encouraging them to communicate with me, which I embedded in directions for a self-reflective, goal-oriented extra credit activity based on the DAPPS model. Per Downing (2011), DAPPS is an acronym for dated, achievable, […]
News Roundup: Teaching Experimentation, Career Guidance
Research shows that experimenting with teaching methods can improve student evaluations, and institutions prepare students for their careers earlier in college. Sign up for The ‘Q’ Newsletter for weekly news and insights. Will Trying New Teaching Techniques Tank My Evaluations? The fear that experimenting with new teaching methods will hurt student evaluations may be unwarranted, according […]
Study finds significant impact of teaching on student success
Career Education Meets the Classroom, Curriculum, and Faculty
By Jeremy Podany There is an emerging movement of University Faculty and Career Service Staff working together to educate students about their future working life. It looks different than it has in past iterations. It is more thoughtful, sophisticated, and mission centric. And, it’s very encouraging to the students themselves. The interest in career education […]
News Roundup: Career Guidance and Effective Teaching
Credentialing faculty in effective teaching and career guidance is one step institutions are taking to help students prepare for their future careers. This week, read about this other ways faculty are supporting their students through instruction—from creating assignments that students can actually complete to fostering communities of trust. Sign up for The ‘Q’ Newsletter for […]
How to better prepare students for careers? “Enlist the faculty”: The Chronicle
EBSA: Promoting Student-Centered Learning Through Evidence-Based Self-Assessment
By Santos Torres Jr. Encouraging student investment and responsibility has been a priority throughout my teaching career. Often, students come to my office hours at the end of a semester or email me to inquire about how they are doing and if I think they will be able to pass the course. After many […]
Career Leadership and Teaching
