Tag: underprepared students
Teaching as Coaching: Actively Engaging Students
Written by Andrew Richter, Physics & Astronomy I have been teaching introductory physics courses at Valpo for twenty years, always with a continuous improvement mentality. I try new things based on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and then...
Improving Retention Through A Sense of Belonging: The EPIC Program
By Mike Watters, Professor of Biology Student retention is important to any university, especially keeping commuter students who are traditionally less anchored in campus life. Even more at risk, given the leaky STEM pipeline, are STEM commuter students. To address...
Teaching Underprepared Students and The Hidden Curriculum
By Tiffany Kolba (Math & Stats), Jenna Van Sickle (Lilly Fellows), Jesse Sestito (ME), & Lauren Sestito (ME) This academic year, fifteen Valpo faculty and staff members met biweekly for a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on “Teaching Underprepared Students and...