Weather Update
Due to the storm, Barnard College will close at 4pm today, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.
Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information.
Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed. The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open. For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS.
3:12 PM 02/08/2013
"Sharing Best Practices Among Science Faculty"
Consortium on High Achievement and Success Meeting
Mount Holyoke College, May 25, 2005
1. Cast a wider (and even non-traditional) net when it comes to including or targeting students for lab assistance, conference participation, or summer research plans. Don't only go after students with good grades but students that show interest, excitement, passion and persistence.
2. Advise first and second year students to choose faculty mentors.
3. Express confidence in students early on; understand that the positive consequences for students that do not feel campus/college ownership and whose sense of intellectual self worth maybe fragile will benefit enormously from such expressions of confidence and will have greater trust in professor's critique.
4. Teach by having students problem solve and work at process.
5. Understand our own expectations of students and make them as clear as possible to them.
6. Be willing to think critically about and even change how we give criticism. Accurate feedback is important and so is high expectation.
7. Keep in mind that some students will have a more fragile sense of self, and thus will be more easily dissuaded from pursuing that which is challenging. This is not so much about coddling as it is about helping students--especially those that do not feel campus ownership--realize their potential.
8. Be willing to talk with colleagues about doing things differently than we've always done them.
