Students as Partners

Pedagogical Partnership

The Pedagogical Partnerships Program connects Oakland University students and faculty to enhance teaching and learning across campus. Led by our department with Faculty Fellow Cynthia Miree, the program is co-sponsored by the Division of Academic Affairs.

Related Panel Events and Teaching Tips

Every year CETL works with OU Student Congress to host a student-led panel event on connecting student experience with teaching practices. As a recap of the most recent student panel event, panelists shared Student Perspectives on Collaborating with Professors. 

More student-authored tips:

• An OU Student’s Perspective on Engaging Students
• A Student’s Perspective: Building Confidence in Student Writers 
• Student Perspectives on Collaborating with Professors

Students have also shared their perspectives in our Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning YouTube series.

For more strategies on motivating and connecting with learners, see Engaging Students in Learning.

More about Pedagogical Partnerships

Pedagogical Partnership is an increasingly popular student-faculty teaching in higher education program, popularized by Alison Cook-Sather’s 2014 book republished as an open access book in 2019: Pedagogical Partnerships: A How-To Guide for Faculty, Students, and Academic Developers in Higher Education. For a multimodal resource collection, see University of Virginia’s Students as Partners.