Mike Calendine

Faculty know who the bad students are.  This may be academically...or it may be socially.  Little wins will gravitate to bigger wins....but you cannot belittle adults. 

If the faculty are not excited for the content, then I don't want them in the class.  They will bring down a class faster than anything else.

Students need to assess well....period. Anxiety from test taking?  Take ore tests.  Prepare more.  Studies have shown the more prepared you are the less anxious your become.  So maybe the question becomes how can we show them so they know they are prepared or not?

Don't overcomplicate it.  Pre-test...content....post-test. This will give you and the students the ability to analyze what they learned and did not learn.

Students must learn connection. Material learned cannot be viewed as pragmatic pieces of information.  Where does it fit?  How does it fit?  How is it the same?  How is it different?

I would suggest reading "Make it Stick" by Brown. 

This is a tough area to get full buy-in from faculty. Where we get into gray areas is the standards of the practice and the social norms that may not line up with them.

Learning does not stop when students walk across the stage. It is just the beginning to keeping up and expecting to engage in learning all of their lives. 

Professionalism and civility are traits necessary for our students to be successful.  Over emotional, rash decisions can lose a job.

All students should be exposed to leadership skills. They may not need them in the class, but they will need them in life.