SAGE Musings: Shifting from Deficit Thinking to Asset Thinking part of SAGE 2YC:SAGE Musings
Students arrive on our campuses and in our classrooms from a rich array of backgrounds, with an almost unimaginable diversity of prior experiences. This includes a wide range of what we think of as academic ...

SAGE Musings: Moving Toward a Student-Centered Classroom part of SAGE 2YC:SAGE Musings
Students learn more in student-centered classrooms (e.g., Lawson et al., 2002; MacIsaac and Falconer, 2002). Furthermore, student-centered teaching reduces achievement gaps across student sub-populations (Teasdale ...

Framing Leadership in Times of Crisis part of SAGE 2YC
Written by Jingjing Liu and Dr. Pamela Eddy, William & Mary The global pandemic that began in 2020 caused education disruptions for learners and forced community colleges to adapt to unexpected situations. In ...

SAGE Musings: Teaching Students Metacognitive Strategies part of SAGE 2YC:SAGE Musings
Over the past week, I've been reviewing the sets of pages written by each of the Change Agent teams, and I've been struck by just how many of you say that teaching your students about metacognition and ...

Develop Students' Science Identity part of SAGE 2YC
"If students hold stereotypes that portray scientists as a different 'kind of person' than themselves, those students might conclude they are not 'science people.' This mismatch between a ...

SAGE Musings: Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Boost Student Metacognition part of SAGE 2YC:SAGE Musings
The use of Bloom's taxonomy in teaching and learning can help us become more student centered, as it allows us to be more precise about what we want students to know and be able to do. There is a growing body ...

SAGE Musings: "Blooming" Exams and Other Summative Assessments part of SAGE 2YC:SAGE Musings
Why "Bloom"? When faculty are asked what they want students to know and be able to do at the end of a class or a program, we usually respond with high level outcomes. We want our students to understand ...

SAGE Musings: Seeing the World Through Multiple Frames part of SAGE 2YC:SAGE Musings
× Sometimes the solution to a problem seems obvious to you, but you can't get any traction with your colleagues. What's going on? Consider the possibility that they see the situation differently ...

Materials for Faculty Development Workshops part of SAGE 2YC
The materials on this page were developed by the SAGE 2YC: Faculty as Change Agents project team or in collaboration with our team for the workshops run by the project. We envision these materials being used by ...

Supporting students' sense of belonging part of SAGE 2YC:Sessions
Overview This workshop session is designed to familiarize faculty members with the research literature on sense of belonging. The strategies highlighted in these materials are drawn from and applicable across all ...