1. Ready-2-Zoom:
Getting to Know Your Students & Creating a Safe Environment 2-7 (Th) Noon – 1 P.M.
Jennifer Mahlke, Communication
Yam Lee, Chemical & Materials Engineering
Ruth Ahn, Education
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2. Why Get to Know Your Students?
Because each student is unique.
Students come with different experiences and backgrounds.
Getting to know students helps them get to know each other widening their learning options beyond you.
Getting to know our students means being able to connect with them => higher motivation
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3. Activities To Get To Know Your Students
Constraints & Opportunities
Examples:
Ice breakers- intro speeches, name game or I am
Games- bingo, scavenger hunt
Student information sheet that asks for students’ hobbies or passions
Journal entry that asks about their experience, etc.
Before & after class
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4. Importance of a Safe Environment: Research
Tenets in Mind, Brain, & Education Science:
Motivation influences learning.
Emotions and cognition are mutually influential.
Stress influences learning.
Anxiety influences learning.
Source: Tokuhama-Espinosa (December 2018/January 2019). What we know (and think we know) about the learning brain. Phi Delta Kappan, 100(4),
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5. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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6. Importance of a Safe Environment
Students can fail, succeed and grow independently and together
Struggling students
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7. How to Create a Safe Environment
Instructor responsibility
Student responsibility
Never too late for a safe
learning environment!
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8. Coming Up!! 3/7 (Th) Noon – 1 P.M.
“Using Scaffolding to Maximize Student Learning”
3/28 (Th) Noon – 1 P.M.
“CFA Success Kit for Lecturers Part 2”
4/23 (Th) Noon – 1 P.M.
“Helping Students Become Self-regulated Learners”
Any questions???
Ruth Ahn at
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