{"id":1230,"date":"2014-03-11T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2014-12-16T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:30:34","slug":"three-strategies-for-creating-meaningful-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/three-strategies-for-creating-meaningful-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Strategies for Creating Meaningful Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Stephen Meyers states, \u201cStudents are more likely to pay attention and be excited about your course when they view the class as relevant to themselves and connected to their interests. Professors often find this goal to be elusive when they use a top-down approach to teaching that primarily starts (and ends) with their knowledge of the field and their own beliefs about what students need to know. Instructors can instead maximize student interest and excitement by using a bottom-up approach that involves assessing students\u2019 needs, tailoring the course experience, and using teaching techniques that purposefully heighten students\u2019 engagement\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/effective-teaching-strategies\/three-strategies-creating-meaningful-learning-experiences\/?campaign=FF140224article&amp;utm_source=cheetah&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2014.02.24%20Faculty%20Focus%20Update%20\">to read more at The Faculty Focus, click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Stephen Meyers states, \u201cStudents are more likely to pay attention and be excited about your course when they view the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-jQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}