Growing a Positive Learning Community

Todd Zakrajsek talks about how to grow a positive learning community on episode 444 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Community is what drives learning.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Students are not going to learn if they don’t believe they can learn.
-Todd Zakrajsek

My job is to help students be the best possible learners they can be.
-Todd Zakrajsek

It is important to know that everyone you meet can be fighting something at any given moment.
-Todd Zakrajsek

• Tracie Addy’s (and colleagues) Who’s in class survey
• Tuckman’s stages of team development
• Teaching Within the Rhythms of the Semester, by Donna Killian Duffy and Janet Wright Jones
• ‘Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.’ – Ian MacLaren
• The New Science of Learning 3e, by Todd Zakrajsek
• Zotero

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