intervention – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Just three emails to improve student grades and retention? Yes, please!

mglessmer — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 04:03:22 +0000

Sitting on the ferry back to Sweden, I listened to one of my favorite podcasts, “tea for teaching“. The episode was on the role of faculty engagement, specifically showing students that the professor cares, and how three emails can already make a difference! I’ve been very interested in student belonging and mattering for a while now, and especially […]

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A personal story about why I am reluctant to start a class with an intervention

mglessmer — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:53:10 +0000

The first lecture I attended as a student wasn’t actually a regular lecture, even though I did not know that at the time. It was an intervention. Together with about a hundred or so new students, I sat nervously in a lecture theatre in the physics department. I had enrolled in physical oceanography, which was […]

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Mind-set interventions

mglessmer — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 13:05:01 +0000

Two years ago, I was really into daily writing in my bullet journal. I used it to plan out my day, week, month, year, but also to set goals and reflect on how I was doing achieving them. During that year I felt really efficient, accomplished, capable, and it definitely felt related to all that […]

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