Posted in Classroom Strategies on Apr 27th, 2020
Take a minute to visualize your students studying. What do you expect them to be doing? If you were to make a study guide for your students, what would it look like? What skills or processes do you expect to be automatic? What concept is usually the hardest for students? How do you classify content […]
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Posted in Course Design, Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2020
The sudden shift to online learning can deepen existing inequalities.The digital divide (uneven distribution and access to technology) combined with the implications of a global pandemic for different socio-economic and racial groups means that many students will be disproportionately affected by the shift to remote work. For instructors, this means that we need to think […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2020
This post was adapted from a Kaneb Center mini-workshop. For additional resources, suggested reading, and sample rubrics, check out the mini-workshop presentation slides, as well as this Kaneb Center presentation on creating and using class-based discussion boards. Now that classes have moved online for the remainder of the semester, many instructors have implemented online discussion […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2020
With the recent move to online teaching and news about student grades, the following article written by Judy Ableser might serve as a useful reminder of one of our foundational goals for teaching – Mastery Learning. Mistakes are Opportunities to Learn: Mastery Learning Rationale Almost forty years ago when I began teaching special education students, […]
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