Dear Faculty, We have almost reached the mid-semester point and in just 17 days we spring forward into daylight savings! Soon our campus will be filled with fresh flowering trees and the quad filled with students enjoying the warmer temperatures and longer afternoons of daylight. Our newsletter this week takes another nod to James Lang’s article How to Teach
Month: February 2025
Curiosity and Engagement: Finding the Hook to Connect With Students
Dear Faculty, Now that we are several weeks into the semester, let us revisit James Lang’s article from the prior newsletter and dive deeper into curiosity. Curiosity is “a strong desire to know or learn something.” This wonderful summary describes our role in educating our students at UMass Dartmouth. As you will read and hear in this letter’s resources, curiosity
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