CTL Weekly Teaching Note

One way we can help students strengthen their commitment to a course is to have them think about the course content and learning outcomes, and identify how the course contributes to their academic development and future career.

Starting Strong by Building Community, Social Presence, and Swift Trust

Blog | Sep 14, 2016

There are certain practices to employ in classes—whether they be in person, blended, or online—that can set the tone for the entire term and may even have an effect on retention and student success if you can implement them starting the first week of class: building a learning community, building instructional social presence, and building "swift trust."

ARTS: An Essential Metacognitive Strategy

Blog | Sep 07, 2016

With higher education so strongly embracing metacognitive strategies as a method of aiding student success, we’d like to offer a strategy that instructors can use on the first-day of class to help their students learn more deeply and persist to graduation. The first day of class is often either wasted or used to go over basic course information, but selling students on the importance of the ARTS strategy might prove the most valuable piece of instruction during the entire semester.