Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course. Many new instructors face this what now?

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

It also enhances the teaching experience for the instructor. This survey prompts students to share important personal information such as work hours, commuting time, computer access, racial background, and gender identity. What inclusive instructors do: Principles and practices for excellence in college teaching. Mitchell, K.

Syllabus 121

Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 121

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

I’ve used this space for flipped classrooms when I have students do group work in class, like this example from a course on Greek archaeology: Each group of students can work simultaneously on one page, adding content which is marked with a vertical colored stripe and the student’s initials so you can see which student added which content.

Education 124

Education Instructors English Language 124

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

It also enhances the teaching experience for the instructor. This survey prompts students to share important personal information such as work hours, commuting time, computer access, racial background, and gender identity. What inclusive instructors do: Principles and practices for excellence in college teaching. Mitchell, K.

Syllabus 109

Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

According to the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) , today’s universities lean on strong teaching skills from their instructors, including adjunct instructors, and research shows a direct correlation between classroom management skills and higher retention rates and increased on-time graduation rates.

Instructors 116

Instructors Culture Students Skills 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

According to the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) , today’s universities lean on strong teaching skills from their instructors, including adjunct instructors, and research shows a direct correlation between classroom management skills and higher retention rates and increased on-time graduation rates.

Instructors 111

Instructors Culture Students Skills 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

He offers a free set of resources for instructors who wish to use the ANTH 101 materials. For Spencer, one key strategy is having students do focused group work and reinforcing their learning through means other than strictly relying on passive listening to lectures. These answers are curated on the main ANTH 101 website.

Learning 163

Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? This could take the form of a no-point or low-stakes quiz, a case study, group work, or even a reflective activity.

Counselling 86

Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 86

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course. Demonstrate how subsequent stages build upon the work completed in the previous stage.

Assignments 104

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 104

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2024

Breakout sessions allow for students to choose not only a topic they’d like to explore further, but also how they would like to explore it with a small group of their peers. Collaborative learning is something that many of us already utilize in our classrooms in the form of small group work. References Bolkan, S., Goodboy, A.

Motivation 101

Motivation Instructors Discussions Lecturing 101

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

HSC also planned for logistical matters needed to enact the policy and reviewed and provided feedback to SSC’s project components. We then built the infrastructure for the project through a detailed “Project Guide”.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Science History Communication 105

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course. Demonstrate how subsequent stages build upon the work completed in the previous stage.

Assignments 84

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 84

Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2023

The shift to emergency remote teaching in 2020 was a challenging time for students and instructors. However, we think that it would be a mistake to abandon the accommodating policies many instructors have adopted. Anecdotally, I noticed attendance improved.

Student Engagement 97

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Exams 97

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

HSC also planned for logistical matters needed to enact the policy and reviewed and provided feedback to SSC’s project components. We then built the infrastructure for the project through a detailed “Project Guide”.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Science History Communication 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? This could take the form of a no-point or low-stakes quiz, a case study, group work, or even a reflective activity.

Counselling 64

Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 64

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2024

Breakout sessions allow for students to choose not only a topic they’d like to explore further, but also how they would like to explore it with a small group of their peers. Collaborative learning is something that many of us already utilize in our classrooms in the form of small group work. References Bolkan, S., Goodboy, A.

Motivation 83

Motivation Instructors Discussions Lecturing 83

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

One is having students approach me before the semester telling me how they hate group work, and they wouldn’t have chosen the class except that they’ve heard how great it is and how positive previous cohorts have found this group work task. I Hate Group Work!”: 2018, García et al., 2016, Gleadow et al.,

Assignments 131

Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Utilization and modeling of these effective, participatory learning activities among faculty groups are also a way to build community among faculty as they are “trained” to be effective trauma-informed instructors. They often tell me that although they have always hated group work, they really enjoyed teamwork.

Education 52

Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review 52