Principle 1: Faculty-Student Contact
Principle 2: Collaborative Learning
Principle 3: Active Learning
Principle 4: Prompt Feedback
Principle 5: Time on Task
Principle 6: High Expectations
Principle 7: Diverse Learners
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Why have high expectations?
Expect more and you will get more. High expectations are important for everyone -- for the poorly prepared, for those unwilling to exert themselves, and for the bright and well motivated. Expecting students to perform well becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when teachers and institutions hold high expectations for themselves and make extra efforts.
Strategies
All Modes
- Defines expectations in syllabus; due dates and late work explained
- Provides clear guidelines around absences and grading
- Motivates and encourages students to move past the easy answers to more complex solutions and to do their best work
- Provides examples of high (and low) quality student work, along with a discussion of the differences between them.
- Provides specific communication of the skills and knowledge every student needs to have in order to be successful in the course.
- Reinforces course competencies/objectives and how assessments are designed to help students achieve those goals.
- Communicates assignment requirements
- Models behaviors and expectations required of their student
- Implements a syllabus quiz
- Lists course competencies and learning objectives appropriate to each learning plan to communicate the expectations of the course.
Additional Research
Need more ideas? Visit the Curriculum and Organizational Development team located on the 2nd floor of the library for support!