Collaborating for Student Success: Building Engagement in Learning
A Symposium on best practices in engaging students in learning was held on April 4, 2008 with Keynote Speaker, Dr. Vincent Tinto.
Dr. Tinto is chair of the higher education program at Syracuse University. Professor Tinto’s research deals with student persistence and attainment in higher education. His recent book, Taking Student Retention Seriously, presents current research on student retention and applies it to practical institutional issues, especially classroom teaching.
Sponsored by:
Title V Collaborative Grant
University of the Incarnate Word
Northwest Vista College
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Resources below are in PDF format
- Welcome by Dr. Tinto
- Recommended readings by Dr. Tinto are available here.
- Session presentation materials
- A Culture of Caring: Readucing Anxiety and Increasing Engagement in First-Year Foreign Language Courses by Michael Tallon
- Engaging Biology, Religious Studies, and Arabic Students through the Holy Land Garden by Richard S. Peigler, Sister Martha Ann Kirk, Rolla Alaydi
- Shazam: Empower Your Students! by Laura Padgett
- Collaborative Learning in Quantitative Classes: A Tale of Two Accounting Professors by Tracie Edmond and Theresa Tiggeman
- Language and Education: Key Factors in the Acculturation of Meican Americans from Rural Communities by Carlos C. Pena
- Symposium attendee list
