Summary: Ruth and Claire discuss how to encourage students to come to office hours. Claire shares that a welcoming and asset based approach when students visit office hours impacts the rate of return. Ruth has had an improvement in office hour traffic because of a nearby student lounge where students can work on problems and then pop in. Claire is working on the issue of getting students to get over the activation barrier of coming to the first office hour. This is also something Ruth is working on. Ruth is also struggling with what to do when students need to have private conversations while students with material questions get frustrated. Send us your experiences with office hours, potential future topics and celebrity professor suggestions: contactprofessorpodcast@gmail.com.
