It makes learning relevant to all populations, to real life and real work,

Its almost saying that technology is essential to learning now

is bank learning.

never should be left thinking

unleash

The information could be right, but the way it is delivered to the students is completely wrong.

busy work and blah blah blah

bad habits

“what can this information be used for” the teacher satirically responds “the final”.

If teachers are willing to put the students interest above their own when it comes to teaching techniques there would be a dramatic difference in the performance of students across the world.

After watching a video and reading a blog post

https://www.plymouth.edu/undergraduate/general-education/general-education-requirements-fall-2005-later/first-year-experience/

Getting the readers attention will provide good feedback,

according to studies done by top professionals

The plymouth state website

Faculty have reorganized their syllabi and their classrooms teaching practices to promoteshared, collaborative learning experiences among students.

An increasing number of colleges and universities have begunto successfully employ a variety of practices and pedagogies that seek to actively involvestudents in learning with others.

student learning isthe root of student persistence

Simply put, involvement matters and at no point does it mattermore than during the first year when student attachments are so tenuous and the pull of theinstitution so weak.

By focusing thereforeon the conditions in which we place students we are necessarily led to the sorts of changes wecan and should make to enhance student retention.

What would our colleges and universities look like ifwe used the research on student retention to guide our actions?

have not taken student retentionseriously.

Many colleges speak of the importance of increasing student retention.

Frequency and quality ofcontact with faculty, staff, and students

take advising seriously

segmentation

Some institutions even go so far as to hire retention consultants

Taking Student Retention Seriously: Rethinking the First Year of College

Although police officers can be very annoying

service

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No college student should have power over his or her voice.

I think a more innovative attendance policy would demonstrate a punishment that makes a student recognize missing too many classes is not a healthy way to strive in education.

I believe that there are ample occasions where a student being absent to class can be beneficial to his/her mental health, physical health, or academic success.

engaged members of society

so many connections for you to find everything you need.

Public speaking is  the process or act of performing a presentation (a speech) focused around an individual direct speech to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or entertain them.

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Should inspire students: Seminars should inspire students to be more responsible for their education and their lives.

Utilizing the library: Everyone student should come down to meet the local librarians because they are great resources for help when you need it.

the public

FYS teach students how to access the internet and use it to their advantage of their profession. For example in this class we learned how to use our own website/blog, communicate through twitter and reach many different types of people through twitter by hashtags. This will help in the long run because students will know different variations of reaching out and communicating with their colleagues.

By learning these skills one is able to read passages and interpret them into their own thoughts and write or talk about them. FYS allow you to use many variations of digesting information and resources to help students do so.

Plymouth State and many other institutions have much to offer their students. These include writing centers, libraries, math help and many other academic centers included in the students tuition. FYS tell you about these things and encourage you to use them for all your academic help.

Learning is about making a mistake, so why should the grading system counteract that?

I am dyslexic

Overall, those 5 objectives might not be mastered, but will be improved upon once the first year seminar is over.

In college I want all my work to have a purpose. That means getting it out to the public to read. This would make me feel like my work means something.

knew what model

Also, an objective the class should be geared toward is to make the students do something they aren’t really comfortable doing with their past educational experiences.

five most important learning objectives for a FYS

Being in a class where the students are actually asked how they want to be graded or how they want their attendance policy to be formed was like finding a diamond in the rough.

If students work

SOURCE ARTICLE

torture is a way to motivate speech. So really anything CAN be a motivator

Well then you know what you introduce to the scenario, stress.

I would made the course so the students would grade their own papers first

only one attendance policy for the whole institution.

So that’s why Griffin believes professors should have obligatory classes with few absences allowed.

2 exempt classes is not enough.

These tweets that I have chosen

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If you have already paid for the class it should be your choice to make.

Some people also believe the professor should not have to go over the lesson again just for one kid.

David Romer writes, “A student who attends only a quarter of the classes averages a 1.79 (C-) in the course while a student who attends all lectures on average earns a 3.44 (B+)” (Romer 171).

The professor should allow students to come in late to class as well because they are the ones paying for their education

Missing

A lot of this information can be supported by this article.

Enforcing attendance policies in college treats students more like adults because once you get a job you are only allowed a few days off without getting fired. But in my opinion professors should understand that students do sometimes have to miss class for serious reasons.

Giving extra credits to students with perfect attendance will give motivation to want to go to every class.

Attendance in college

I would make the students first complete a project about the topic of the test which would count for 50% of the test.

Sometimes after trying to had to reach perfection results in people giving up

All of the tweets presented were a part of an open discussion about attendance and grading.

tudents often get sick or are sometimes too flooded in work from other classes and have to prioritize their time for something else.

Not all our brains work the same way and some people take longer to process or retain information.

If you want to get good grades, it is mathematically proven that you are at a higher chance of excelling if you attend class rather than skip. Although, it does say that a mandatory attendance policy only shows a slight positive correlation so in reality it is okay to skip a few classes but not getting too carried away with skipping.

I feel like these kind of policies definitely give me a lot of responsibility but it also gives me the motivation

Once the student becomes comfortable with missing class, they probably won’t keep up not on the syllabus, therefore resulting in last minute scrambling or just simply failing the course. Getting yourself into a routine will save your life, and will keep you comfortable with going to class and getting yourself acquainted with the new found freedom.

For professors, I think it’s reasonable to be strict on attendance. It shows you care

It is your responsibility now, you are on your own and no one here to tell you what to do

https://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/AttendingClass.html

http://collegian.tccd.edu/?p=5579

A study done by Bryan Stewart showed that students who missed classes regularly tended to have a higher probability to drop or fail the class.

Should class attendance be mandatory? Students, professors say no

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Especially since I am paying it would feel stupid to skip a class and throw away my money.

Students although they pay for these classes would rather not attend if they can still get a good grade.

No one goes to college for free so why are you just giving your money away?

its just weird to be referred to as “they”.

Students will succeed in a place where they feel valued. If a student is feeling like they don’t matter then that student will not want to be there. That student will not care and either drop the problem classes of drop the school. If you put students in an environment in which they are appreciated then they are much more likely to succeed, mainly because the student will feel free to express himself and participate actively in class.

This is a very interesting concept

If you have collaboration on a subject then you and all of those around can see the issue from different perspectives, enriching understanding.

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In this article

Students also need high expectations to be more successful. 

The article that I read

The First Year Experience

This BORING article talks about a study of students taking first year seminars during 1998-1999.

However, all these benefits seem to fall off once when we look at second year.

It improves their overall satisfaction for first year, but not second.

It’s shown that participants are less likely to remember what they were taught going into second year.

Hate brings people together.

BORING

Before you even jump in

It comes as a surprise that SAT scores doesn’t correlate with a students rank or even a persons GPA in college.

How do these changes sound to you?

Your first year seminar can really help you establish that base

Using each other when a professor is unavailable helps everyone out. With smaller learning communities, it’s more beneficial when students have multiple classes together so they can get to know each other better.

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This makes the students further engage in research of their own instead of taking notes on the results of previous research done.

First Year Seminar had an affect on satisfaction for first year students, but also had no affect with satisfaction and retention for second year students

Its not something id be interested.

My opinion on this article is well writen

It showed that the college careers those of students who didn’t take the course also.

multiple measures helped progress the eight cohorts in the first year if the student encounters with a fisrt year seminar

the satisfaction of colleges

The article I read tonight was very interesting

there is a direct correlation to the students that were working with a librarian and having more highly developed skills.

like what the heck even is information literacy,

when students were able to personally connect to the classwork they were subsequently more motivated to do work in the class

a pass/fail class led to kids waiting until the last minute do to the work and and not putting much time or effort in the assignments

Students can attend the most prestigious school available but if they aren’t motivated to do work they will fail 100% of the time.

People who do well in their first year seminars usually do well in their college careers according to studies done by top professionals. Each group for different seminar courses focus on an individualized subject. The subject is broad but is a correlated to student success in school. First year seminar courses usually have around 20 people. The goal of this class is to make the student more prepared for the future college life. The class brings the community together with discussion and strategy. Everyone works on the same page to resolve the area of study. The classes help tremendously with incoming freshman at Plymouth State University.

FYS Overview

People who do well in their first year seminars

but this was the generation we were brought up in. Times are changing, and students are evolving with it.

Coming from the student perspective, this sentence seems too general.

O’Barefoot

who is “we”

(Photo: Arne Hoel)

Retention, Bonding, and Academic Achievement: Success of a First-Year Seminar

and this gives them a chance to shine and be excited about their future education career.

The article proves using specific numbers and showing percentage fluctuation.

colleges no longer were holding a class for first year seminars as the students were not getting the sufficient help they needed from their peers and other informal networks.

late 1880’s

from this informational article,

Whats wrong with the first year students

I read an article by Betsy O. Barefoot

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I believe that every first year class can provide this and it is not very different from every other class.

According to this article a first year seminar class is a better predictor of success than SAT’s and high school grades. 

I think that my success in our seminar class that we are building on our own will show more about the student I am because I get to structure what we are learning and how we go about spending class time. If I had been put in a first year seminar based on a topic I had little to no interest in, I think it would give a misread on my success in classes that I enjoy.

Meaning you can tell more about a student from how they  engage and perform in a first year seminar class rather than from the tests that schools hold us accountable for from high school.

“The First Year Seminar as a Predictor of Academic Achievement and Persistence”

It is safe to say freshman seminars provide a benefit to the student population

The article can be found here, http://csr.sagepub.com/content/16/4/593.full.pdf+html .

It was shown that after the course they had better study habits.

some of their schedules were more jam packed than others with things like jobs, and sports.

“Quantitative Evaluation of a First Year Seminar Program: Relationships to Persistence and Academic Success”

First Year Seminars do this perfectly by allowing the class to talk out loud and let everyone get involved on the activity.

using upperclassmen to offer more resources to first year

Ever since the start of First Year Seminars, the return rate of students has gone up over five percent.

The article I read

domain and all its content are the student’s to take with them. It is, after all, their education, their intellectual development, their work.

fail to give students themselves a voice, let alone some assistance in deciding what to share online.

There’s some pushback against these proposals too, with arguments that restrictions on data might hinder research or the development of learning analytics or data-driven educational software.