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What the F? Grading strategies for early career teachers

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To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. A teacher’s fallback practice may be to grade on a curve; however, curved grading is philosophically flawed in most course level applications.

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3 Ways To Improve Student Success With Strong Course Design

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. All of this starts with a good course design.

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What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

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There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

To assess the impact of the pre-course, consider collecting student performance and perception data. In our large animal anatomy course, positive statistically significant correlations were found between pre-course interaction and certain exam scores (Hansen, Basel, & Malreddy, under review). McNulty, Margaret A.,

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Creating a Course Calendar that Aligns to the Rhythms of the Semester

Faculty Focus

But Im not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. Briefly, there are five points I try to address each time I prepare to teach a course: List. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later. Understanding by Design, 2 nd ed.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

Faculty Focus

Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. I often embed study and time management strategies into the curriculum.

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Creating a Course Calendar that Aligns to the Rhythms of the Semester

Faculty Focus

But I’m not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. Briefly, there are five points I try to address each time I prepare to teach a course: List. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later. Understanding by Design, 2 nd ed.

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