Getting to Know You

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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:Send a brief survey to students near the beginning of the term that asks them to share a little bit about past and current experiences, as well as their future aspirations. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham, Jonathan Perry

Think-Pair-Present

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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 communicate ideas effectively. During a review session for an upcoming exam, assign students questions on different topics, and ask them to both reflect on their own and in pairs to create brief summaries or presentations to teach their peers. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham

Learning from Mistakes 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 learn from their mistakes.Activity Description:After assignments are returned, provide students an activity in which they analyze and learn from a mistake they made on the assignment or reflect on a part of the assignment they found particularly challenging.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham, Jennifer Porter

Learning from Peers

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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 collaborate effectively for learning. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham, Jennifer Porter

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham, Jennifer Porter

Welcome Statements of Support

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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 brief message instructors can say or send to students to clarify that everyone can be successful in the course, but that struggle should be expected as they engage with challenging course topics.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham, Kristen Procko

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.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham

Sharing Former Student Stories

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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:Students are asked to read about past students’ experience in the course and reflect on their own study strategies and responses to challenge that they can deploy to be successful in the course. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Success: Faculty/staff-facing

Authors: Lindsey Jones, Eric Smith, Anita Latham, Debra Hansen, Cameron Hecht