CUNY Academic Commons | Elisabeth Jaffe | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ejaffe/activity/ Activity feed for Elisabeth Jaffe. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 caba11cd653e1ba5c34fdd79836176e9 Elisabeth Jaffe wrote a new post on the site Creating a Path to STEM Careers in Psychology for Under-Represented Minorities https://psyched4stem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1291 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:49:28 -0400 One of the most important things for our students is to make every one of them feel visible in the classroom and to give them a voice.  I will definitely make sure that this is reflected in my syllabus. Thank […]

]]> ba493200994d7902619527b5860fca30 Elisabeth Jaffe wrote a new post on the site Creating a Path to STEM Careers in Psychology for Under-Represented Minorities https://psyched4stem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1216 Sun, 24 Jul 2022 23:11:49 -0400 I would like my students to better recognize patterns that exist across content.  Too often students see each unit as separate, and they forget they can apply prior knowledge to problem solving.  In the past, I a […]

]]> ac2308874277b43c246b4db6d5b76eac Elisabeth Jaffe wrote a new post on the site Creating a Path to STEM Careers in Psychology for Under-Represented Minorities https://psyched4stem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1132 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 23:08:27 -0400 I have been working on growth mindset and grit (persistence and resilience) in my classroom for years now.  It is a subject of great interest.  I consider growth mindset to be the way we think and grit to be w […]

]]> f10262844bc144d4d0571f3daa5aff7b Elisabeth Jaffe commented on the post, Reflection 1, on the site Creating a Path to STEM Careers in Psychology for Under-Represented Minorities https://psyched4stem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/07/14/reflection-1-3/#comment-35 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 22:09:42 -0400 Antoinette, I love the idea of a Cyber Cafe. I have a discussion forum, even in my face-to-face classes in which students can post questions (one forum is dedicated to content, and the other is dedicated to […]

]]> c184bd623312a4223ba95383677f08bd Elisabeth Jaffe commented on the post, Topic 2: Motivation & Persistence, on the site Creating a Path to STEM Careers in Psychology for Under-Represented Minorities https://psyched4stem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/07/15/topic-2-motivation-persistence/#comment-34 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 22:02:38 -0400 I, too, have been working on motivation, mindset, and grit in my classroom for a long time. I think it is hard to know how to approach these subjects without implying that our students don’t have these traits. T […]

]]> 347775173048f4f48ee11d1b1db81303 Elisabeth Jaffe commented on the post, Reflection on Topic 1: Belonging and Social Skills, on the site Creating a Path to STEM Careers in Psychology for Under-Represented Minorities https://psyched4stem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/07/12/reflection-on-topic-1-belonging-and-social-skills/#comment-10 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:34:41 -0400 In both the readings and the discussions, the piece that resonated with me the most was engaged learning. How can we make a learner feel engaged in the classroom, with each other, and in the outside world? I […]

]]> 32b5bc30cb00b88069188d7b441f5b3f Elisabeth Jaffe became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/486094/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:03:03 -0500