At the end of each term, there are a few steps instructors can take to ensure course content and data are stored and consolidated, and that your workspace is ready to go as you prepare for the next round of courses.
As we begin exploring foundational ideas in inclusive teaching within this primer, we must acknowledge the interdependent yet unique considerations that drive concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion within the classroom. Originally published in the University Times.
This article is meant to serve as an introduction to an approach to teaching that values the experiences of women, centers students, makes space for dialogue and reflection, and upends instructor/student power dynamics of the traditional classroom. Originally published in the University Times.
How might you go about designing an assessment that allows all students to demonstrate their learning? This article outlines four tips for creating more inclusive, equitable assessments of student learning. Originally published in the University Times.
How can we break down these misconceptions and reduce course content without compromising quality? this article offers some tips for best-practices that will tighten your syllabus while improving educational outcomes of your courses. Originally published in the University Times.
As instructors and as human beings, we know that trauma is and will be an inevitable presence in our classroom, regardless of the continuing effects of the pandemic, which has but highlighted already existing inequalities in higher education. Originally published in the University Times.
Since the rapid and massive shift to online learning in March 2020, online instruction has frequently (and sometimes unfairly) been criticized as a less effective method of teaching and learning. Originally published in the University Times.
PechaKuchas are presentations consisting of 20 automatically timed slides each displayed for only 20 seconds for a presentation totaling no more than about seven minutes long. Learn more about this strategy to avoid "Death by PowerPoint." Originally published in the University Times.
In a university setting, there are many factors that go into creating a successful classroom environment. These factors vary, depending on what is most necessary for the particular course. A student's perspective from an article originally published in the University Times.
Instructors who adopt Turnitin need to know that it does not detect plagiarism; βIt merely matches material present in a specific document uploaded to the Turnitin website to material present on the internet.β Learn more in this article, originally published in the University Times.