Teaching Methods
Guiding Principles
- Academic policies, course work, and expectations are explicit.
- Classroom instruction, assignments, and assessment integrate study skills and learning strategies.
- Faculty provide relevant and meaningful assignments.
- Objectives and purpose of assignments are clear.
- Feedback on assignments is prompt.
- Multiple opportunities exist to demonstrate attainment of course objectives.
- Orientation continues throughout the first semester.
- Classroom instruction and advising are scaffolded to optimize effective transition.
- The Early Intervention Team identifies and supports struggling students.
How do we accomplish this?
At Landmark, we:
- Help students develop self-understanding by demystifying their own approach to learning and developing proven strategies that address their personal learning differences.
- Provide students with the support they need in and out of the classroom. We show students how to become successful self-advocates and use supporting resources effectively.
- Constantly develop innovative and student-centered best practices in learning disability, ADHD and ASD education
- Introduction to Pedagogy and Learning Differences: A Bibliography from the Landmark College Library
- Offer a highly supportive, intensive, team approach to learning. Key to Landmark's success is our 5:1 student-to-faculty ratio.