Notes on Teaching and Learning

Tips for new TAs: advice from Carrie Rodak and Laura Taylor

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Over the next few months, members of the university teaching community will revisit and revamp their courses for the next academic year. While many know that the Kaneb Center offers one-on-one consultations, not many know exactly what this process entails. Typical conversations during a consultation are structured around designing your course/syllabus, designing early semester feedback […]

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The Kaneb Center Summer Reading Groups are now forming! This is a great opportunity to read and discuss a book related to teaching and learning with other interested students, staff, and faculty. The Kaneb Center will purchase a copy of the book for each member of a group. Click here to sign up individually or […]

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volunteering to enter data could be a valuable experience for students

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With a constant influx of fancy new technology at our finger tips, many instructors jump at the opportunity to incorporate these new tools into the classroom.  Each tool boasts an impressive resume of improving student learning, building a sense of community, and fostering student discussion.  What they don’t tell you is that instructing students to […]

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Peer-led Team learning (PLTL) is a method commonly used in undergraduate science courses where students who have completed the course and done well are recruited to become peer-leaders to the students the following year.  These peer-leaders then interact with current students promoting critical thinking through group problem solving.  This method has gained significant momentum in […]

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By Katie Grayshan – Kaneb Center Graduate Associate and Amanda McKendree – Kaneb Center Assistant Director On March 3, Dr. Keith Davis, director of the Digital Visualization Theater (DVT), offered a workshop on how to utilize the impressive technology of the theater to enhance student learning. The DVT is a digital projection system that displays […]

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Wait-time: The Role of Silence in Active Participation

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The Myth of Learning Styles (Change, September/October 2010) makes a clear and succinct case that learning styles are not a useful consideration when planning our teaching. The article starts by identifying what is true about learning styles and offers a variety of alternative student characteristics that can be more useful to us when preparing and […]

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Reading the Chronicle of Higher Education on 8/10/2010 I was reminded that, as a new semester looms, tension is building for many who will be meeting a new group of students for the first time. Perhaps you find yourself among those feeling the effects of the rapidly approaching semester? During consultations and other interactions with Notre […]

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