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What I Am Learning About My Students During an Impossible Semester

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Chronicle Vitae Contact: Jim Lang Date published: April 2, 2020 Blog: What I Am Learning About My Students During an Impossible Semester
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Excerpt: On the first day of the spring semester, which now seems a lifetime away, I handed out index cards and asked students to respond to the usual suite of getting-to-know-you questions: name, hometown, major. But this time I also tried something new — I asked them to write a short paragraph about their own academic values and strengths.