The Reaching At-Risk Students Workshop was held on Friday, June 5, 2009 at UW-Marathon County in Wausau, WI. It's purpose was to create a venue for system-wide conversations about working with the broad spectrum of students entering higher education who are at risk for probation, suspension, or simply dropping out.

The Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment tool to help you become more aware of what goals you want to accomplish in individual courses, land can provide a starting point for discussions of teaching and learning goals.

I just returned from the "reunion" meeting of the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology* where we heard the adventures of 2008 participants when they applied active learning in their large lecture courses.  A majority used clickers, which was impressive because they only had a few months to organize it, and most had very positive results.  Some people included the activities they developed in their Summer Institute groups (strip sequences, for example, where groups of students ordered strips of paper with steps in a process), or case studies, or large g

This posting from the Tomorrow's Professor Listserve looks at some important approaches to improved learning in large class settings. It is from Chapter 14, Inside the First-Year Classroom - Challenges and Constraints, by Bette LaSere Erickson and Diane W. Strommer in the book Challenging and supporting the First-Year Student - A Handbook for Improving the First Year of College, by M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner, and Betsy O. Barefoot.

The posting below, from the Tomorrow's Professor Listserve, looks at strategies for increasing student learning in diverse classroom settings.  It is from Chapter 4, Accounting for Diversity Within the Teaching and Learning Paradigm, in the book: Driving Change through Diversity and Globalization, Transformative Leadership in the Academy, by James A.