I was invited to participate in several statewide meetings that revolved around improving student retention and persistence in STEM. To improve student retention in Calculus 1, I began re-working how I taught the course. I was offered the use of LAs to help in this initiative. The re-design of the Calculus course relies on the […]

I started working with the LA program as a mechanism to better serve the students in my courses. I had been looking at how to restructure the courses to involve more active learning and determined that a “flipped classroom” style of course structure would be the most beneficial. In order for this style of course […]

I joined the LA program to better connect with my students in my large lecture courses. I want my students to experience more personalized and student-centered education, even when there are 300 other students in the room. I continue working with the program in part because CAT has the most amazing directors. They have helped […]

Learning Assistants are a huge help in my First-Year Engineering Lab classes. Engineering is such a broad field, and LAs always are able to speak to what they are currently working on in their discipline and skill set. They really help students grasp the realities of college in a way that I cannot. LAs understand […]