Submitted by: Jennifer Brewer, jbrewer1@uca.edu on 09/08/2025
You are invited to join us for lunch! Bear Bites: Meaningful Student Feedback, on Thursday, September 18, at 12:15 p.m. in Torreyson West 319.
Join us for a practical, faculty-led conversation on what makes feedback truly meaningful for students—and manageable for instructors. This session will highlight strategies that promote student engagement, save time, and support learning across disciplines. Faculty panelists will share real-world examples of how they provide written, audio, and video feedback, how they balance formative and summative feedback, and how they use tools and techniques that work.
Whether you’re teaching online, in person, or somewhere in between, come away with ideas you can use right away to make your feedback more effective and impactful.
**Lunch provided. All faculty welcome!**
👉 Register for this Bear Bites event.
This week’s Faculty for Successful Students focus continues from last week: Encourage Time Management.
This theme aligns with the student campaign emphasis: PLAN Your Time.
Effective time management skills empower college students to balance academics, extracurricular activities, and personal commitments. This ability leads to reduced stress, increased productivity, and better academic performance, fostering a sense of control and success in their educational journey.
Ways you can Reinforce Success:
- Discuss how to plan for class assignments; provide tips on managing study time for this course; encourage use of a planner (Student Success offers free UCA Planners).
- Take time to demonstrate one or two time management strategies that could work in your course (e.g., Weekly Schedule, Daily Top Three, etc.).
- As often as possible, provide students with an estimated time needed to complete out-of-class assignments in the assignment instructions. Point out these estimated times to students and encourage them to use them when putting out-of-class assignments in their planners.
Resources for You:
Together, we can help students strengthen the skills and behaviors that make them successful at UCA. Thank you for supporting this important initiative!
https://uca.edu/cetal/faculty-for-successful-students/
