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Student Teams, Teaching, And Technology, Ruth Federman Stein, Sandra N. Hurd
Student Teams, Teaching, And Technology, Ruth Federman Stein, Sandra N. Hurd
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Using student teams in the classroom actively involves students in the learning process. This essay describes the planning necessary for effective use of teams and the impact of technology on the team learning environment.
Practice Tests: A Practical Teaching Method, Margaret K. Snooks
Practice Tests: A Practical Teaching Method, Margaret K. Snooks
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Learn about the development, implementation and evaluation of short daily practice tests. Student response is overwhelmingly positive, and learning improvement is evidenced by higher semester averages.
Using Student-Centered Assessment To Enhance Learning, Joseph "Mick" Lalopa
Using Student-Centered Assessment To Enhance Learning, Joseph "Mick" Lalopa
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Student-centered assessment allows students to participate in their growth as learners and helps build valuable self-assessment skills.
From Passive To Active Learning: Helping Students Make The Shift, Marilla Svinicki
From Passive To Active Learning: Helping Students Make The Shift, Marilla Svinicki
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Being active and self-directed as a learner makes for better learning and retention, but what does that mean for students and for instruction?
Assessing Students’ Online Learning: Strategies And Resources, Patricia Comeaux
Assessing Students’ Online Learning: Strategies And Resources, Patricia Comeaux
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Explore key strategies used by experienced online instructors, and learn about the wealth of resources for designing assessment instruments integral to online learning.
Teaching Portfolios For Graduate Students: Process, Content, Product, And Benefits, Laura L. B. Border
Teaching Portfolios For Graduate Students: Process, Content, Product, And Benefits, Laura L. B. Border
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
The graduate student teaching portfolio is an excellent tool to guide graduate students in their development and success as they begin to clarify who they are, what they want to teach, and where they want to teach.
The Power Of Student Stories: Connections That Enhance Learning, Peter Frederick
The Power Of Student Stories: Connections That Enhance Learning, Peter Frederick
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Telling and listening to student stories connects our students’ prior experiences and knowledge and their hopes and fears with the core learning goals teachers value and thereby furthers deeper learning.
Powerpoint: What Is The Point, Eugene V. Gallagher, Michael Reder
Powerpoint: What Is The Point, Eugene V. Gallagher, Michael Reder
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay summarizes the literature on PowerPoint as a tool for learning, addresses both its potential problems as well as its possibilities, and offers guidelines on its effective use in teaching.
Transitions: What’S Love Got To Do With It?, Kathleen T. Brinko
Transitions: What’S Love Got To Do With It?, Kathleen T. Brinko
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay addresses strategies for managing the transition of new faculty into the academy in order to avoid disenchantment and leaving the academy before tenure.
Teaching For Diversity And Inclusiveness In Science, Technology, Engineering And Math (Stem), Angela Linse, Wayne Jacobson, Lois Reddick
Teaching For Diversity And Inclusiveness In Science, Technology, Engineering And Math (Stem), Angela Linse, Wayne Jacobson, Lois Reddick
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores the challenges STEM faculty face in recognizing, developing and implementing classroom practices that support diverse students.
Validity, Research, And Reality: Student Ratings Of Instruction At The Crossroads, Jennifer Franklin
Validity, Research, And Reality: Student Ratings Of Instruction At The Crossroads, Jennifer Franklin
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores how student ratings of instruction can address the rise of new paradigms of instruction such as active learning strategies and web-based delivery modes.
A Roadmap To Part-Time Faculty Success, Terri A. Tarr
A Roadmap To Part-Time Faculty Success, Terri A. Tarr
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay offers practical strategies to help part-time faculty navigate the twists and turns of teaching part-time, enhance their teaching effectiveness, and make their roles more personally satisfying.
Teaching Bioethics Through Participation And Policy-Making, Karey A. Harwood
Teaching Bioethics Through Participation And Policy-Making, Karey A. Harwood
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
The teaching of bioethics calls for a balance between conceptual analysis and the use of concrete cases in order to further students’ ability to reason critically and develop the traits of engaged citizens.
Why Knowing About Disciplinary Differences Can Mean More Effective Teaching, Michele Marinkovich, Jack Prostko
Why Knowing About Disciplinary Differences Can Mean More Effective Teaching, Michele Marinkovich, Jack Prostko
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores some of the latest research on how disciplinary differences affect faculty’s teaching in subtle and often unconscious ways.
Self-Efficacy In College Teaching, Anita Woolfolk-Hoy
Self-Efficacy In College Teaching, Anita Woolfolk-Hoy
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
The essay describes self-efficacy (that is, an instructor’s judgment about his or her capability to promote student learning and motivation) and its application to college teaching.
Taking Self Assessment Seriously, Georgine Loacker
Taking Self Assessment Seriously, Georgine Loacker
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay provides a framework for students to examine and reflect upon their own performance as a demonstration of learning. It further describes students’ role in directing the ongoing development of their own learning.
Student Plagiarism: Are Teachers Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Problem?, Chris M. Anson
Student Plagiarism: Are Teachers Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Problem?, Chris M. Anson
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores ways in which instructors can subvert opportunities for plagiarism by rethinking limited models of writing and engaging students more fully and authentically in the assignments they present.
Promoting Learning Through Inquiry, Virginia S. Lee
Promoting Learning Through Inquiry, Virginia S. Lee
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Inquiry-guided learning promotes learning through students’ active, and increasingly independent, investigation of complex questions, problems, and issues. This essay explores its theoretical rationale and the varied classroom practices of this exciting constellation of learning strategies.
Great Expectations And Challenges For Learning Objects, Anne H. Moore
Great Expectations And Challenges For Learning Objects, Anne H. Moore
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Learning objects may be important building blocks in the future of instruction in higher education. This essay explores the importance of emerging standards and practices that invite widespread use of relatively stable “chunks” of information.
Engaging The Whole Student: Interactive Theatre In The Classroom, Suzanne Burgoyne
Engaging The Whole Student: Interactive Theatre In The Classroom, Suzanne Burgoyne
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores how instructors can use techniques from Augusto Boal’s Theory of the Oppressed to guide student exploration of ideas-particularly those associated with power and social justice-through images and enactment.
Engaging Faculty In New Forms Of Teaching And Learning, Paul Hagner
Engaging Faculty In New Forms Of Teaching And Learning, Paul Hagner
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores the importance of the motivational state of the faculty member in the success or failure of systematic efforts to transform teaching and learning.
Encouraging Civil Behavior In Large Classes, Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Encouraging Civil Behavior In Large Classes, Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay offers practical advice for promoting a positive classroom community in large classes and specific ways to deal with behaviors that affect negatively the teaching and learning process.
Unlearning: A Critical Element In The Learning Process, Virginia S. Lee
Unlearning: A Critical Element In The Learning Process, Virginia S. Lee
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Research has shown that prior knowledge is a critical determinant in learning. This essay explores the role of student misconceptions and how instructors should address them during the learning process.
Improving Teaching Through Classroom Action Research, Gwynn Mettetal
Improving Teaching Through Classroom Action Research, Gwynn Mettetal
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay discusses how to conduct small, in-class research projects on student learning in order to document teaching effectiveness and select appropriate teaching strategies.
Helping Students Help Each Other: Making Peer Feedback More Valuable, Linda B. Nilson
Helping Students Help Each Other: Making Peer Feedback More Valuable, Linda B. Nilson
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Student peer feedback can be emotionally biased, misinformed, and/or superficial. This essay discusses two types of feedback that yield neutral, valid, and detailed information and enhance students’ audience awareness.
Teaching Circles: Making Inquiry Safe For Faculty, Laurel Black, Mary Ann Cessna
Teaching Circles: Making Inquiry Safe For Faculty, Laurel Black, Mary Ann Cessna
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
How can I improve my teaching? Pressured by a need for high student ratings and administrative demands for excellence in teaching, faculty find a haven and room to learn in teaching circles.
Creating A Culture Of Co-Learners With Problem-Based Learning, Kristi L. Arndt
Creating A Culture Of Co-Learners With Problem-Based Learning, Kristi L. Arndt
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Problem-based learning requires a significant shift in the roles and responsibilities traditionally assigned to teachers and students. This essay examines the challenge of truly empowering students as self-directed learners.
Achieving Teaching And Learning Excellence Through Faculty Learning Communities, Milton D. Cox
Achieving Teaching And Learning Excellence Through Faculty Learning Communities, Milton D. Cox
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
The impressive learning outcomes of student learning communities can be replicated for faculty learning communities (FLCs). This essay describes FLCs and ways they enhance faculty and student learning.
Team Teaching: The Learning Side Of The Teaching-Learning Equation, Mary Jane Eisen, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Team Teaching: The Learning Side Of The Teaching-Learning Equation, Mary Jane Eisen, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Emphasizing shared ownership of teaching and learning through collaboration, this essay explores the multi-directional process of adult learning in different types of learning situations including on-line education.
Leading Culturally Sensitive Classroom Discussions Following September 11, Devorah Lieberman
Leading Culturally Sensitive Classroom Discussions Following September 11, Devorah Lieberman
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
his essay focuses on strategies for facilitating successful classroom discussion related to the events of 9/11. These suggestions are based on strategies implemented on several campuses across the country.