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This week:
I talk to students who are “pedagogical partners” on their campus, to hear their thoughts on effective teaching practices.
I share resources on how to create student-professor partnerships on your campus.
I alert you to two conferences on teaching.
I point you to readings and a survey about teaching you may have missed.
When the Student Is Your Partner
I’ve writtenrecently about the pandemic-driven teaching innovations that professors want to keep even after campus life returns to normal. That includes such things as a flexible syllabus and making more of an effort to connect with students. So it was nice to hear from a reader that many of those changes are also things that students want to keep.
Active Learning for a Post-Pandemic World chronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MUMBAI â Priyanka Chopra Jonas was bestowed with the RAD Impact Award and has chosen Avanti Fellows, a social education enterprise in India, as the charity of choice to benefit from the award. The RAD Impact Awards honor cultural icons who inspire purpose and empower their advocacy by helping them create impact for their charities, while also inviting the public to get involved.
Each of the five inaugural RAD IMPACT recipients this year selected an honoree to share their award with and a charity to benefit from it. Their charity will receive an impact donation to fund a project that furthers its mission through direct impact for others.
Reforming Assessment Practices In Pandemic-Era Education
Board exams can be replaced with interaction-based active learning that can be assessed throughout the year. outlookindia.com 2021-04-22T13:20:05+05:30
Assessment practices in the education system need to evolve as real world settings are changing. There is no ideal assessment practice given that the real world conditions are marked by their uncertainties, changeability and limitations. Hence, assessment practice needs to adapt to the real-time context in which it is situated. Taking into consideration, the present day catastrophe which is all-pervasive and governs most decisions that are taken by all stakeholders in this world, assessment practices have been inevitably impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This variable component of the real world setting has been highlighted by Bachman and Palmer as they say, “The setting in which assessment development takes place includes many uncertainties and conflicts and is