Cruel Student Comments: Seven Ways to Soothe the Sting
What can faculty do with cruel student evaluations? Even if off-base and misguided, hurtful student comments and ratings can be demoralizing. Isis Artze-Vega, EdD in his article gives the following...
View ArticleArticulating learning outcomes
A learner-centered syllabus will clearly articulate course goals, expected learning outcomes, student responsibilities, and the criteria used to assess student performance. This kind of information...
View Article“Sharpen the Saw”
This thoughtful piece by Professor Mark Hofer reminds faculty to spend a little pre-semester time to improve areas of professional life that important and not urgent. He then highlights three web-based...
View ArticleHow changing pedagogy increases student learning
This posting shares a chapter by Craig Nelson. In this chapter, Dysfunctional Illusions of Rigor: Lessons from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, he questions traditional understandings of rigor...
View ArticleMotivating students with praise: how and when to use it
In this week’s piece, Daniel T. Wilingham introduces us to the intricacies of praising students’ work as a motivational tool. While it may seem that praise works well as an encouragement, the specifics...
View ArticleEight models to motivate students
This week’s posting presents the many resources gathered by Karin Kink on how to motivate students. Kink brings out 8 specific models available at the Vanderbuilt Center for Teaching, which encourages...
View ArticleFirst Friday Roundtables on Teaching – Student Motivation
The 2015-16 First Friday Roundtable series will highlight the theme of student motivation. Sessions this fall will focus on motivating students through community engagement, using classroom response...
View ArticleTeaching Styles and Strategies for Disability Inclusion
This workshop offers tangible teaching styles and strategies to create and revitalize inclusive learning environments for disabled college students and all college students. September 22, 2015...
View ArticleCTAL Instructional Improvement Travel Awards
CTAL Travel Awards for Instructional Improvement Program is open for proposals.
View ArticleFirst Friday Roundtable: October 2, 2015
This First Friday Roundtable workshop will focus on engaging the communities outside the classroom to foster student learning. Please register: http://www.udel.edu/002681
View ArticleStrategies to include diverse students in the classroom
This week, we are taking a break from articles on student motivation to focus on the inclusion of diverse students in the classroom. Denise Wood brings us the reading in which she explores literature...
View ArticleOn how to live wisely
On this fourth week of class, we are offering a reflection on what first year student might benefit aside from classes: as adults in midst of growing up, their needs go beyond academic disciplines. In...
View ArticleDiversity & Motivation, a review
This week on the blog, we offer you a book review and recommendation for answering the difficult question of how to approach student diversity in the classroom, in particular how to motivate...
View ArticleFive Theories on Motivation
In this second post of the month, Shiang-Kwei Wang provides a detailed look at the composing pieces of motivation. Wang goes through 5 different theories on areas that can be tweaked to increase...
View ArticleLearning should be fun
In today’s posting, Jackie Gerstein points out that learning should be natural, fun and engaging as opposed to difficult, painful, and not fun. She offers several learning strategies together with...
View ArticleDeveloping Critical Thinking Habits
In “Critical Thinking Framework for Any Discipline” by Duron, Limbach, and Waugh describe a framework that guides our thinking about how to help students develop critical thinking habits. According to...
View ArticleThe Narrative Approach
McCoy, Sherwin, and Bustillos offer a look into a different teaching approach: the narrative. Their text provides an example of culturally relevant pedagogy. They used a narrative approach to improve...
View ArticleThe Six Cs of Motivation
This week’s (short) piece by Shiang-Kwei Wang and Seungyeon Han further explores the topic of motivation. The authors focus on a particular case study of a professor assigning a news report on a...
View ArticleUsing Rewards to Increase Motivation
This week, we further our investigation into the intricacies of motivating students with this article. Daniel T. Wilingham writes about the complexities of using rewards to increase motivation in a...
View ArticleA Pedagogical Response to Racially, Politically, and Emotionally Charged Moments
This week, Terry Heick proposes a pedagogical response to racially, politically, and emotionally charged moments. Heick advocates that we change the culture of learning such that we do not react to the...
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