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Website run by Skip Downing, author of On Course: Strategies for Success in College and in Life. The site provides practical applications of the On Course principles (free of charge). Strategies are designed with the goal of empowering students to become active, responsible learners. There are links to descriptions of workshops and to registration options.

KG took the On Course course and says "Skip's program changed my life and the way I deal with my students...."

Unsigned, published in Instructional Strategies Online, Saskatoon Public Schools, n.d. Article includes links. Classroom strategy where instructor poses a question and students first think about the answer, then discuss it in pairs, and finally come together to discuss their answers.

A strategy presented by On Course workshop. On Course offers a variety of recommended techniques, carefully organized (e.g. "Student Success Strategies." On Course also offers a monthly newsletter.

By John N. Gardner and Betsy O Barefoot; 10th edition published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012.

ME asked about teaching the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and BT recommended this book. She used Chapter 3, in particular.

This is a working paper by Rebecca Wheeler (n.d.). This paper shows some of Wheeler's work on code-switching in the classroom, and includes analysis and teaching strategies.

The Strategy Institute, Feb 2-5, 2010, had the theme Equity and Excellence. This document is a PDF of the conference program, which included a plenary presentation by Uri Treisman.

From BM: "I also enjoyed hearing Uri Treisman speak on the "joyful conspiracy" he and the Carnegie Foundation are engaged in. This "joyful conspiracy" is just a little project....a complete overhaul of mathematics at the community college level. I encourage all math faculty to read and learn as much as you can about the Carnegie work here. I am certain that it will dramatically affect what you do for a living in the future."

Excerpted from On Course, Study Skills: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, by Skip Downing, posted on Google Books.

RO used this case study in class for discussion and to generate a writing assignment, week 3, semester 4.

Part of the University of Georgia's College of Education Initiative on Innovation in Teaching and Technology (ITT), this page links to presentations in the Innovation 20/20 series. Each topic is a 20 minute presentation on a specific innovation, followed by a 20 minute discussion period. Topics range from more reflective teaching (e.g. Using Metaphor to Explore Teaching and Learning) to using specific tools or strategies (Designing and Implementing an Undergraduate Blogging Community in EDIT 2000 or Motivating Students with Google Tools and More). Navigation on this page also points users to Innovation Resources, Innovation News, and the Discovery Series (another set of online videos).

By Juhyung Harold Lee as a Viewpoint in SchoolBook, December 23 2011. Lee argues that coaching -- learning effective strategies from trusted former teachers -- is the key to improving teaching. 

Published by the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), 2012. This is the first of three annual reports to look at "strategies that appear to be associated with a variety of indicators of student progress and success." For more on this project, follow the tag CCCSE.

By Barbara Fine Clouse; published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010 (6th edition).

DS recommends this book to help developmental English students dispel the myth that they are bad writers and will always be bad writers.

This student resource provides professional tutoring in the subject areas of English grammar and writing, reading text marking and note taking strategies, and basic math.

On the blog Kaironews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy. This post introduces the class discussion technique, Conversacolor.

By James Britton. Technical Report on National Writing Project website. Link to PDF download of report. Author discusses teacher developed strategies used to encourage children to learn to write-and-read. Together these create a literacy learning environment.

Strategies to encourage students towards intrinsic motivation. R.O. recommends "Wise Choice" checklist

From the Department of Life Sciences, Santa Rosa Junior College. This page identifies strategies to help students be successful as students. Similar sites are also bookmarked, see success tag.

LC used this site as part of her unit on student success.

From the Academic Support Center of Cuesta College. Strategies for student success. For similar, see tag success.

LC used this site for her unit on student success.

LASSI is an inventory of learning and study strategies, and measures students' strengths and weaknesses in terms of strategic learning. Developed by Claire E. Weinstein, Ann C. Schulte, and David R. Palmer at the University of Texas, Austin.

By De Sellers, Dochen, Hodges, published by Prentice Hall in 2004. This text helps students to build learning strategies.

Unsigned article describing cooperative learning. Includes references and links. From the Education Technology Training Center at Kennesaw State University. A "teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject."