Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Unfamiliar Topics

I discuss teaching as contingent faculty in the small college environment, having taught multiple topics outside of my research area. My essay focuses on resources for course preparation and how teaching unfamiliar topics can enhance one’s pedagogical practices. Teaching an unfamiliar topic is an opportunity to thinking creatively about learning activities and to model lifelong learning.

ROARing 20’s: Cultivating Responsible, Optimal, Authentic, and Resilient Students

COVID-19 exacerbated a multitude of challenges facing institutions of higher education. The abrupt transition to virtual programming and support services substantially impacted how students lived, learned, and stayed connected to their campus environments. With this shift, one institution reimagined their orientation programming to prioritize advancing community well-being through a student-centered and equity-minded approach. These frameworks informed the strategy for helping students understand the interconnectedness of health and well-being topics as they matriculate into, and engage with, the campus community. This initiative increased students’ knowledge, confidence, and intention to support themselves and their peers as they transition to the college environment.

PENYESUAIAN DIRI DAN STRES AKADEMIK MAHASISWA TAHUN PERTAMA

The purpose of the research to know the corelation between self adjustment and academic stress in first-year university students faculty psychology and cultural social science of Indonesian Islamic University. Researchers conducted data retrival using the academic stress scale and self adjustment scale. Respondents in this research were 170 first-year university students. From the result of a test of corellation it was found there is a significance correlation between self adjustment and academic stres (p<0,05) with value of siginificance p=0,000. The coeffficient correlation (r) of the test hypothesis is -0,569, which indicate a negative relationship between of theese two variabels. This means that if first year university students can adjust to the college environment it will reduce the perceived academic stress. Conversely, if first year university students s are less able to adjust to to the college environment, it will increase the academic pressure felt by first year students.Keywords: Academic stress, Self Adjustment, first-year university students

أثار القراءة في كتابة الإنشاء بكليّة المعلّمات الإسلامية

In Arabic learning, there are four skills, namely listening, speaking, reading and writing. These four skills are interrelated. writing is one of the difficult skill because it is an activity to express ideas in the mind to littering. The broader of knowledge and vocabularies of an author will produce good literature. And the means to get knowledge by reading. Because reading is an activity to usderstand the purpose and increasing knowledge from a literature. This study to know the influence of reading habits on writing skills of 4th grade at Arrisalah Islamic International College on academic year 2019-2020. The researcher used descriptive quantitative as a method of study. The data were collected using questionnaire and test . The result of this study revealed reading is not only factor influencing students’ writing skills. The study environment and facilities contributed to support writing skills and give students more space to get vocabularies in the college environment.

أثار القراءة في كتابة الإنشاء بكليّة المعلّمات الإسلامية

In Arabic learning, there are four skills, namely listening, speaking, reading and writing. These four skills are interrelated. writing is one of the difficult skill because it is an activity to express ideas in the mind to littering. The broader of knowledge and vocabularies of an author will produce good literature. And the means to get knowledge by reading. Because reading is an activity to usderstand the purpose and increasing knowledge from a literature. This study to know the influence of reading habits on writing skills of 4th grade at Arrisalah Islamic International College on academic year 2019-2020. The researcher used descriptive quantitative as a method of study. The data were collected using questionnaire and test . The result of this study revealed reading is not only factor influencing students’ writing skills. The study environment and facilities contributed to support writing skills and give students more space to get vocabularies in the college environment.