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Creating a Productive Learning Environment

  • Leading the First Day of Class

  • Promoting a Civil Learning Environment

  • Ensuring Access to Learning for All

  • Helping Students Persist in Their Studies

  • Checking for Student Understanding

  • Providing Useful Feedback

Helping Students Persist in Their Studies

Rationale

Research shows that increasing intrinsic motivation and emphasizing the connection between effort and improved performance helps students persist in their studies (Dweck, 2006). 

Practices

  • Offer choice when appropriate

  • Provide tools for targeted improvement (rubrics, checklists, writing samples)

  • Offer specific and timely feedback

  • Offer opportunities to use feedback for revision

  • Connect learning to career or other long-term goals

  • Foster a sense of belonging to an online course community

  • Communicate how increased effort leads to improved performance

  • Praise students for effort as opposed to natural ability

  • Offer specific praise connected to effort

  • Use grades to communicate progress

  • Use grades to diagnose what students know and what they need to work on

  • Provide time management strategies and regular reminders

  • Send messages of encouragement and support

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