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Inspiring and Promoting Excellence in Teaching

The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) provides resources, workshops and one-on-one pedagogical support to Drexel University’s faculty and teaching assistants. We work with instructors across every school, college, and campus at Drexel.

Since our launch in 2019 over

1/3

of all faculty participated
in our workshops.

More than

50%

of participants have
attended multiple workshops.

Our resources were accessed

10,000

times by Drexel faculty,
graduate students and staff.

You Can Do It! Using Metacognitive Strategies to Support Student Motivation

Signore,Rebecca

4/2/2024 10:38:38 AM

Understanding student motivation is a complex challenge. Factors such as mindset, personal values, anticipated outcomes, environment, and external expectations all impact motivation—which, in turn, impacts learning. While we cannot control many of t…

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Want students to do better on exams? Try adding metacognition!

Maczynska,Magdalena

3/6/2024 2:49:47 PM

Many instructors experience disappointment when their students’ exam scores don’t live up to expectations. How is it possible, we ask ourselves, that so many students failed to grasp the concepts we had explained so thoroughly? Why were our students…

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