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Shutting Up in Class: The Zen of Silence
Get PDFThis author discovered that his most powerful tool in the classroom was not to lecture, but to stop speaking at all. The effect of the resulting silence was even more positive than he could have imagined
Partnership for Math Success: Development of a Mathematics Readiness Class for High School Students
Get PDFTo implement the developmental mathematics redesign, this author’s College partnered with two public school systems to establish early placement testing and a capstone readiness course, to be administered in the high school students’ senior year
A Cross-Cultural Teaching Model for Community College Teachers: Considerations for Service-Delivery and Implications for the Teaching-Learning Process
Get PDFCommunity college classes are increasingly diverse, both culturally and ethnically, but how can teachers best educate students concerning cross-cultural issues? This author proposes a cross-cultural teaching model that focuses on a personalized approach
Librarians in Your Midst: The Embedded Librarian Program at PVCC
Get PDFThe easy availability of Internet information has caused many to question the future of libraries. However, librarians, as experts of information science, are even more necessary to help students navigate the Internet. An embedded librarian provides assistance at the most critical point – exactly when it is needed
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Get PDFAna Maria Mendez Ritchie photographed “Mennonite 2” while enrolled in Adjunct Art Instructor Ben Wyrick’s “Digital Photography” course at Blue Ridge Community College. Here, they examine a prop for photography
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Get PDFCover art: “Mennonite 2” by Ana Maria Mendez Ritchie, a student at Blue Ridge Community College
Putting Theatre Arts to the Test: Student Performance that Goes Beyond STEM and STEAM
Get PDFPresident Obama’s “Educate to Innovate” initiative emphasizes training in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). More recently, arts have been added to STEM, resulting in the acronym STEAM: Science and Technology interpreted through Engineering and the Arts, based in the Mathematical elements. However, should the arts be used only to cultivate better scientists? Or might the arts be valued apart from of their service to math and science
Discussing Gender and Sexuality in the Community College Classroom
Get PDFThis author’s reading selection for his class provoked an unexpected response: when one of the main characters in the reading “came out of the closet,” the students divided themselves into those who were willing to discuss the issues, and those who weren’t
Why We Write the Way We Do: A Study of Composition Teaching through Writing Style Translation
Get PDFThis author used translation in the classroom to increase student awareness of audience. However, this translation was not between different languages; it was translation from an informal to a formal writing style, and vice versa
First Day of Public Speaking Class and Student Expectations
Get PDFOn the first day of class, what should an instructor do? What do the students expect? What might ruin the first day of class? The author asked 270 students these questions, and their answers apply to any class’s first day