Partnership, Scholarship, Learning
What makes for effective active learning? It's not an overstatement to say this is what I spent all of undergrad and my first job thinking about. So what happens when I'm given five minutes to free-write on it? This: Effective active learning is characterized by intentional group discussion, planning, shared goal development, and collective working …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvwFc-6kWys At the beginning of this semester, we were asked to reflect on our own experiences with High Impact practices, and my first thought was my first 360º experience in undergrad. It was called Women in Walled Communities, and it was a cluster of three courses I took in the Fall of my sophomore year. …
We had the chance to talk to Dr. Ashley Finley today and I was able to ask her about whether she might consider independent majoring a high impact practice. She highlighted the powerful nature of defending ones major as an aspect of publicly demonstrating competence. She also troubled the independent part: would students who independently …
We were asked today to consider: what activity, experience, or pedagogy is not currently considered a High Impact Practice (HIP), but should be? In the five minutes we had to free-write, I thought about independent majors.
I'm living the dream right now, and taking a class on engaged learning. I say that entirely sincerely -- I'm in the unique position of spending all of my working hours thinking about impactful and meaningful teaching and learning and I feel so at home!
Sophia Abbot 