Increase Student Success by Engaging Students in Learning

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Increase Student Success by Engaging Students in
Learning

• Dr. Marsha Fralick

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Overview

• Research (brief)
• Rationale for engagement
• Practical Exercises (Fun!)
• What is working on your campus?
• What new ideas could you implement?

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Community College Survey of Student Engagement
(CCSSE)

• Based on surveys of 700,000 students in 548
  colleges
• Engagement matters for all students, but it
  matters more for some than for others.
• Academically underprepared
• Students of color
• First-generation students
• Non traditional learners

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Rationale for Engagement
It helps your students be successful. Its fun
and rewarding too. Learning is optimized when
students are actively engaged in learning.
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Favorite Quotes

• Education is lighting a fire, not filling a pail.
  Yeats
• The art of teaching is the art of assisting
  discovery. Mark Van Doren
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
  explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
  great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

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We remember

• 10 of what we read
• 20 of what we hear
• 30 of what we see
• 50 of what we both see and hear
• 70 of what we have discussed with others
• 80 of what we have experienced personally
• 95 of what we teach someone else

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And now the fun part

• How to kill your student with PowerPoint
• Just kidding, let the fun begin!