Teaching and Supporting First Year Students

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  First-Year Seminar: Emerging Adulthood

  Kelly Austin

  For my project for the FLC in First-Year Students, I revamped my First-Year Seminar. The course, titled Growing Pains, focuses on emerging adulthood, a term in developmental psychology to describe the growth and development of 18-25 year olds.

  Students read psychological theory about the phase and apply these concepts to literature, as well as to their own lives.

  This slideshow highlights the course description and goals. Slides include snapshots of the modules and SLOs for the introductory unit, where students explore theories of Gen Z and emerging adults; the mid-semester module, where students read a novel about emerging adults and explore belongingness and mental wellness; and the final module, where students complete a final research-based and reflective project.

  The slideshow also includes assignment details for the first major assignment: a Digital Scrapbook designed to examine their cultural selves; and the final assignment: the Guide to Adulting, which combines research, application, and reflection as students examine the first-year college experience.

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  Do First Year Students Benefit from Textbooks?

  Karen Eutsler

  A 7 minute narrated slide deck explaining my dive into whether first year students benefit from having textbooks.

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  Non-anonymous Mid-semester Survey to Support Advising General Chemistry Students

  Supaporn Kradtrap-Hartwell

  Poster presentation: Mid-semester class survey to support advising students in General Chemistry

  For: Faculty Learning Community on Supporting First Year Students

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  Road Through Library Research

  Alison Morgan and Christine Mueller

  Navigating your way through research at the library can be overwhelming and it can be hard to know where to start if you're new to the process. This guide will show you where to go on the Xavier library's website to find the academic resources you need for papers and projects: scholarly journal articles, articles in research databases, and books (print and electronic).

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  Vocation Essay for First-Year Seminar Students

  Niamh J. O'Leary

  A nine-minute narrated presentation describing how I redesigned an assigned in my First-Year Seminar course to both satisfy program and core SLOs and goals, and taking into account the scholarship we learned regarding emerging adulthood in our Faculty Learning Community.

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  COVID team-based jigsaw activity for remote learning

  A. M. Ray

  A narrated presentation describing a team-based inquiry assignment for introductory biology students (science majors). Students conduct independent research on the COVID-19 pathogen and proposed treatments for the disease. Students learn about and apply principles of medical ethics. They then meet with others investigating the same treatment to collaborate on a presentation describing the treatment. Finally, the treatment groups are reassigned to "colloquium" groups under the guise of hospital Grand Rounds to evaluate a variety of treatments, and to select a treatment with the greatest likelihood of helping a critically ill patient.

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  First Year Students' Use of the Writing Center in Fall 2020

  Rebecca Todd

  A brief slide overview of some usage trends of the Writing Center by first year students in Fall 2020.

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  Let's Maslow in Order to Bloom

  Ashley Varol

  This presentation connects the notion of Maslow before Bloom: taking care of ourselves as human adults before we work on mastering knowledge/content. We as faculty can help students learn they can’t pour from an empty cup…just like they can’t learn when their “tank” is empty.

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  First Year Students Use of OAS Services in Fall 2020

  Stephanie Daniels

  This presentation provides information about the first year student use of OAS services--particularly the tutoring and SI services during the Fall 2020 semester.