Designing Student Success in Today’s Digital Environment.
Tools for success:
Peer Mentoring
of Weaker Students
-Identify strengths of students and pair them with others
who need greater assistance. Students:
-Take on leadership role
-Become tutors and mentors
-Grow and improve their own skills by explaining them
Peer model.
-Peers can be ideal role models for other students
-Allow peers to enforce class norms
-Invite past students to describe what they are doing in a higher grade level
Components of
Motivational Syllabus
-Course information.
-instructioon information.
-asignment and grading iformation.
-resources and support.
Get set for success:
Your syllabus… energized.
Research shows that strong course
design leads to positive outcomes such
as increased satisfaction, retention, and
achievement of learning outcomes.
The motivational Syllabus.
How can we inspire confidence in
students that they can succeed?
We provide a roadmap for success:
information, tools, and resources to help
students to help themselves.
Engaginf students:
motivation.
Achieving motivation.
Enthusiasm, commitment and
persistence are key factors in learning,
and are key determinants for success
or failure
The umbrella term.
Motivation in Leanguage Learning.
-Language
-Content
-Teaching method
-Timing / Class management
-Discipline
-Administrative work
-And motivation
motivation.
Aspects of motivation:
-Intrinsic factors
-Instrumental value
-Integrative value
-Extrinsic factors
effective feedback.
factors to consider:
Audience.
group.
-Create a mini-lesson to teach point several
students are struggling with
-Use more experienced/proficient peers to
explain points to other students in group
individual.
Can specify for individual student (e.g. what
you know student can understand and act
upon)
Mode
oral:
-Effective when there is a lot to communicate
or if student does not read well
-Consider individual or group conferences
writing:
Consider amount student is willing and able
to read
Amount
-What have they done well?
-What would the student benefit from
improving upon next?
-Can you prioritize some points over
others?
timing
When do your students want to get their
feedback?
-When they are still thinking about their assignment
-When they can still use it to make improvements
Effective feedback “gives students
information they need so that they can
understand where they are in their
learning and what to do next”(Brookhart, 2008).
Learning
Goals,
Objectives,
Outcomes
school/college mission and university mission.
program goals and program missions.
program objectives ⇆ program outcomes.
course objectives ⇆ objectives outcomes
course unit instructional objectives ⇆ course unit instructional outcomes.
things to consider:
creating expectations.
the teacher's approach must be set the expectations and offer tools for the students.
the curriculum.
refers to the
lessons and academic content taught in a
school or program.
The audience.
the audience is where we can have different configurations: work with childres, adults or in a virtual environment.
