<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><h1 class="gmail-content-item__title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px 11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(62,82,102)"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Good morning, </font></h1><div style=""><font face="times new roman, serif">If you are thinking about teaching in your career, here are some tips. </font></div><div style=""><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="times new roman, serif">-Valerie</font></div><h1 class="gmail-content-item__title" style="font-family:"Heuristica Bold",serif;box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px 11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(62,82,102)"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/How-Can-You-Make-Big-Classes/224?cid=wcontentgrid_hp_4" style="">How Can You Make Big Classes Feel Smaller?</a></font></h1><div class="gmail-content-item__story" style="font-family:Heuristica,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.72857;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17px"></p><img alt="" class="gmail-article__image gmail-img-responsive" src="https://www.chronicle.com//img/photos/biz/photo_88918_landscape_325x217.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; display: block; height: auto; width: 375px;"><div class="gmail-content-item__credit gmail-pull-right" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;letter-spacing:0.04em;padding-left:15px;text-align:right;width:375px;float:right">Jarod Opperman for The Chronicle</div><div class="gmail-content-item__caption gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:none">Zoë Cohen, who teaches a large class in physiology at the U. of Arizona, began sending personalized, supportive emails to students who failed the first exam. The “nudge,” as such a low-touch intervention is called, helped improve their academic performance, she says.</div>Emails, sent at key moments during the semester, are one strategy for helping personalize the large lecture.</div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Heuristica,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-col-xs-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;width:780px"><div class="gmail-content-card__container--article" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:15px;border-top:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;display:inline-block;width:750px"><a class="gmail-content-card__image" href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-One-Email-From-You-Could/244223?cid=cp224" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(62,82,102);text-decoration-line:none;margin-right:12px;margin-bottom:10px;float:left"><br></a><div class="gmail-content-card__body" style="box-sizing:border-box;zoom:1;overflow:hidden;width:10000px;display:table-cell;vertical-align:top"><p class="gmail-content-card__date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-transform:uppercase;width:567.5px"><span class="gmail-content-card__content-type--text" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"></span><span class="gmail-pull-right" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:right"></span></p><span class="gmail-content-card__heading" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:22px;margin-bottom:0px"><h4 class="gmail-content-card__heading--link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Heuristica Bold",serif;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-One-Email-From-You-Could/244223?cid=cp224">How One Email From You Could Help Students Succeed</a></h4></span><span class="gmail-content-card__byline" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;font-family:"Heuristica Italic",serif;margin-bottom:10px"></span><div class="gmail-content-card__abstract" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-right:20px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-907bf28c-7fff-dd9b-59f5-0f4eac369de7" style="box-sizing:border-box">A professor shares some promising results from sending a personalized message to students who failed her first exam — one example of the kind of “nudge” that can raise student performance.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Heuristica,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-col-xs-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;width:780px"><div class="gmail-content-card__container--article" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:15px;border-top:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;display:inline-block;width:750px"><div class="gmail-content-card__body" style="box-sizing:border-box;zoom:1;overflow:hidden;width:10000px;display:table-cell;vertical-align:top"><p class="gmail-content-card__date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-transform:uppercase;width:750px"><span class="gmail-content-card__content-type--text" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"></span><span class="gmail-pull-right" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:right"></span></p><span class="gmail-content-card__heading" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:22px;margin-bottom:0px"><h4 class="gmail-content-card__heading--link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Heuristica Bold",serif;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/Small-Ways-to-Help-Students/244515?cid=cp224">Small Ways to Help Students Feel Noticed</a></h4></span><span class="gmail-content-card__byline" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;font-family:"Heuristica Italic",serif;margin-bottom:10px">By Beckie Supiano</span><div class="gmail-content-card__abstract" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-right:20px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px">Start by building excitement, says a professor who teaches large courses at the University of Arizona.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Heuristica,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-col-xs-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;width:780px"><div class="gmail-content-card__container--article" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:15px;border-top:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;display:inline-block;width:750px"><div class="gmail-content-card__body" style="box-sizing:border-box;zoom:1;overflow:hidden;width:10000px;display:table-cell;vertical-align:top"><p class="gmail-content-card__date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-transform:uppercase;width:750px"><span class="gmail-content-card__content-type--text" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"></span><span class="gmail-pull-right" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:right"></span></p><span class="gmail-content-card__heading" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:22px;margin-bottom:0px"><h4 class="gmail-content-card__heading--link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Heuristica Bold",serif;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><font color="#3e5266" face="Heuristica, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/Insights-From-Other/244516?cid=cp224">Insights From Other Instructors</a></span></font></h4></span><span class="gmail-content-card__byline" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;font-family:"Heuristica Italic",serif;margin-bottom:10px">By Beckie Supiano</span><div class="gmail-content-card__abstract" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-right:20px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 11px">Professors share the emails they use to “nudge” students at key moments in a course.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * </font><div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">Valerie Sloan, Ph.D.</font></div><div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">Director of the GEO REU Network &</font></div><div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">Senior Higher Education Specialist</font></div><div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">NCAR Education & Outreach</font></div><div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">NCAR|UCAR</font></div><div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">P.O. Box 3000</font></div><div><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif">Boulder, CO 80307-3000</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Email: </span><a 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