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The Digital Design for Student Success (D2S2) initiative is a partnership between the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), Texas A & M University, and The University of Texas at Austin to develop innovative, exceptional, and open digital materials with an emphasis on high-demand introductory courses.  

Endorsed D2S2 resources were developed by faculty at Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin for faculty of high-demand introductory courses. 

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Activating the Schemata [Resource]
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Instructors engaging with the following resource will discover a variety of pre-reading strategies for enhancing their students’ reading comprehension. The resource emphasizes the importance of activating students’ schemata, or prior learning, as a foundation for comprehending new material. Techniques like guided anticipation utilize thought-provoking yes/no statements to initiate conceptual learning, while cloze exercises actively engage students with filling in missing words based on their existing vocabulary. “Writing in the Round” is presented as a collaborative activity fostering an exchange of diverse views, while free writing encourages students to draw upon their memory for a creative exploration of related concepts. By the end of this resource, instructors will discover adaptable strategies applicable to various grade levels and subject areas, providing a comprehensive toolkit for promoting active reading and comprehension among their students.

Author: Sharon Haigler
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
English Language Arts
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL/ESL)
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading of Informational Text
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Mary Landry
Sharon Haigler
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
05/28/2024
Advice from Future Self Activity
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This resource contains activity handouts and considerations for facilitators. This resource is part of the Teaching Excellence Toolkit to help accomplish the College Readiness Goal: I want students to persist through challenges and failures.Activity Description:In this writing activity, students envision a future in which they are successful in the course, and reflect on strategies they need to make the success happen.

Subject:
Student Success
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing
Author:
Lindsey Jones
Eric Smith
Anita Latham
Date Added:
09/26/2023
Annotated Bibliography [Assignment/Rubric]
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Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will
- analyze five sources that reflect a supporting or opposing stance on the student’s chosen topic.
- create an annotated bibliography that follows the conventions of the genre, such as following APA formatting guidelines, summarizing sources, evaluating source credibility, and explaining the relevance of each source to the research argument.

Author: Kimberly Stelly
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Kimberly Stelly
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
05/29/2024
Annotating Texts: Developing an Evaluative Essay [Assignment/Rubric]
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Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will
- analyze the concepts of “segregated coexistence” and “living in community” as proposed by Nicholas Ensley Mitchell in order to evaluate the situations described in the provided articles regarding food security, gentrification, and urban development.
- use Mitchell’s framework to evaluate the quality of diversity in their local college or community context.

Author: Christopher Manes
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Interactive
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Christopher Manes
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
05/28/2024
Audience & Purpose Handout
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This handout complements lessons on audience and purpose in writing. It offers questions and examples to help students grasp how understanding their audience and purpose shapes a piece’s content, tone, and structure.

Author: Brandi Morley
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lecture Notes
Student Guide
Author:
Brandi Morley
C. Anneke Snyder
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
07/30/2024
Audience and Purpose [Lesson]
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Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will
- Identify an audience and tone for your writing as well as explain why identifying these components are important.
- Utilize the RAFT writing strategy to plan an appropriate style according to audience and purpose.

Author: Brandi Morley
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Author:
Brandi Morley
C. Anneke Snyder
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
07/29/2024
Author’s Claim Graphic Organizer
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With this graphic organizer, students gain practice identifying devices relevant to literary texts and reasoning through how these devices support the author’s purpose.

Author: Frances Santos
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Frances Santos
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
07/20/2024
Basics of Logarithms
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This resource contains a rubric, an activity handout, a facilitation guide, and tex files. The material is meant to be used for those teaching a college algebra course. The activities are meant to provide a deeper understanding (than a traditional course offers) of some of the topics covered in a college algebra course. The activities are intended for group activities and options exist for use in a single class or multiple classes.

Subject:
Algebra
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Module
Unit of Study
Author:
Lindsey Jones
Bill Wolesensky
Date Added:
09/25/2023
Bill of Rights Cloze Worksheet
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By the end of this activity, students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the First, Second, and Third Amendments of the Bill of Rights by completing a cloze exercise, using context clues and prior knowledge to fill in key terms without referencing their notes.

Author: Sharon Haigler
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Mary Landry
Sharon Haigler
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
07/22/2024
Classical Argument Essay [Lesson/Rubric]
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Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will
- create a persuasive classical argument following the Aristotelian structure, including an introduction, narration, confirmation, counterargument/refutation/concession, and conclusion.

Author: Kimberly Stelly
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Kimberly Stelly
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
05/29/2024
Close Reading: Annotating an Article [Lesson]
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Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will
- read, reflect, and respond critically to a text by actively annotating individual thoughts, questions, and responses for each paragraph.

Author: Claire Carly-Miles
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Claire Carly-Miles
Date Added:
07/21/2024
Commas and Coordinating Conjunctions
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These worksheets are designed to help students practice the placement of the proper punctuation between independent clauses. These worksheets are designed to supplement previously generated lessons rather than as a stand-alone lesson.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Grammar
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Hannah Bowling
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
09/28/2023
Commas and Coordinating Conjunctions [Lesson]
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Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will
- analyze example sentences to determine whether a comma is needed before the coordinating conjunction based on the presence of independent clauses.

Author: Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
English Language Arts
Grammar
Material Type:
Lesson
Student Guide
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Mary Landry
Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
05/29/2024
Composition of Functions
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This resource contains activity handouts, a rubric, a facilitation guide, and tex files. The material is meant to be used for those teaching a college algebra course. The activities are meant to provide a deeper understanding (than a traditional course offers) of some of the topics covered in a college algebra course. The activities are intended for group activities and options exist for use in a single class or multiple classes.

Subject:
Algebra
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Module
Unit of Study
Author:
Lindsey Jones
Bill Wolesensky
Date Added:
09/25/2023
Contemplating & Exploring Ethical Considerations of Large Language Models
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In this section, you will learn about the importance of ethical considerations and implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. This section highlights that LLMs are not inherently good or bad. Instead, the importance of user engagement in ethical practices is emphasized to ensure responsible use of these tools.

Ethical considerations for educators include attention to student privacy, expectations, and consequences—all of which should clearly be defined in syllabus statements, classroom policies, or institutional statements. Meanwhile, ethical implications exist involving varying ethical standards for how people approach LLMs differently, how human and machine bias influence GenAI, and how style guides differ on citing information garnered from ChatGPT.

After reading this section, you should be able to articulate your own ethical queries and concerns related to LLMs, such as ChatGPT, both as a general user and an educator.

Author: C. Anneke Snyder
Contributors: Gwendolyn Inocencio, Mary Landry, Jonahs Kneitly
Designers: Irene AI, Sweta Kailani
Supervisors: Terri Pantuso, Sarah LeMire

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Module
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Anneke Snyder
Gwendolyn Inocencio
Irene Ai
Jonahs Kneitly
Mary Landry
Sarah LeMire
Shweta Kailani
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
09/24/2023
Content Relevance Reflection
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This resource contains activity handouts and considerations for facilitators. This resource is part of the Teaching Excellence Toolkit to help accomplish the College Readiness Goal: I want students to feel like they belong in the course.Activity Description:This is a writing activity where students reflect on the relevance of what they are learning and its applications to their future goals.

Subject:
Student Success
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing
Author:
Lindsey Jones
Eric Smith
Anita Latham
Jennifer Porter
Date Added:
09/26/2023
Contextual Analysis Research Unit [Resource]
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This resource models a possible research unit for instructors interested in guiding students through contextual literary analysis. As such, this resource outlines strategies for delving into the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts of recommended mentor texts, such as ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway. Additionally, this resource provides a suggested pacing for the unit as well as an outline and rubric for crafting and evaluating the final essay. By the end of this section, instructors will be equipped to design their own contextual analysis research unit that suits their class interests and needs.

Author: Katherine Yoerg
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Literature
Reading of Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Katherine Yoerg
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
05/29/2024
DIDLS Understanding Tone in Literature [Assignment]
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Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will
- analyze the tone of a given text by evaluating its diction, imagery, details, language, and structure through the DIDLS strategy

Author: Lenora Perry-Samaniego
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Lenora Perry-Samaniego
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
07/21/2024
Definition Essay [Assignment/Rubric]
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Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will
- analyze a chosen concept through various strategies, such as its connotations, denotations, and more.
- create a well-organized essay that explains and defends a proposed definition for their chosen concept through reasoning strategies, evidence, and credible sources.

Author: Kimberly Stelly
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Author:
C. Anneke Snyder
Kimberly Stelly
Mary Landry
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
05/28/2024
Demonstrative Determiners and Unclear Antecedents
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This worksheet is designed to help students develop the ability to identify unclear pronoun usage in their own writing. To achieve this ability, students are shown examples of demonstrative determiners and unclear antecedents as well as strategies to help them avoid these mistakes in their own work. This worksheet is designed to supplement previously generated lessons rather than as a stand-alone lesson.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Grammar
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Hannah Bowling
Terri Pantuso
Date Added:
09/28/2023