{"id":1675,"date":"2024-10-18T19:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T19:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2024-10-23T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:57:24","slug":"jennifer-hood-degrenier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/2024\/10\/18\/jennifer-hood-degrenier\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hood-DeGrenier: Helping students grow in many different ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1660 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/6.-Jennifer-Hood-DeGrenier-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/6.-Jennifer-Hood-DeGrenier-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/6.-Jennifer-Hood-DeGrenier-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/6.-Jennifer-Hood-DeGrenier.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Professor of Biology, 2020 Alden Award Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When biology professor Jennifer Hood-DeGrenier was in college, she was taught in traditional ways\u2014chalkboards, lectures, note taking. She knows those teaching approaches aren\u2019t particularly effective for many students, so, over the years, Hood-Degrenier has experimented with different strategies to engage students in the classroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI want to get students excited about learning and excited about the content,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, I teach with enthusiasm, and I try to help them to join into that enthusiasm by finding ways for them to make personal connections with the material and emphasizing how it really is relevant to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She puts a lot of thought into how to make participation comfortable for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNot everybody naturally is going to speak up and raise their hand,\u201d she said. \u201cIn all of my classes, I incorporate various ways for students to participate, whether it\u2019s in whole class discussions or digitally through responding to questionnaire polls, or working in small groups first and then having groups share.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And sometimes, she said, it\u2019s important to focus not just on what they are learning, but on how to learn. With freshmen, she talks about study skills and how to engage with material rather than trying to memorize it. She positions science lessons within a larger framework so students can understand the bigger picture of what they are learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSuccess is helping students progress and grow in many different ways,\u201d Hood-DeGrenier said. \u201cEverybody takes something different away from a class, but you can see that you\u2019re having an impact on helping students to go places that they wouldn\u2019t have gone before, to think about things that they wouldn\u2019t have thought about otherwise. That is rewarding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In spring 2024, Hood-DeGrenier brought three undergraduate students she has mentored to an academic conference at UMass Amherst. 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