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TLC From The TLC: On Teaching Students How to Learn Your Discipline

November 10, 2017

If professors are finding that students in class aren’t learning, one remedy is to make sure we’ve made time to teach them how. In this week’s Teaching & Learning post, Lars Erik Larson summarizes two easy ways we can make our assignments and our fields more accessible and transparent to undergraduates, particularly first-generation and non-traditional students.

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Filed Under: 11-13-2017, Academics, Teaching & Learning Collaborative Tagged With: Lars Larson, Teaching and Learning Collaborative

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