Posts Tagged ‘Best Practices in Teaching’
February 20 - Improving Teaching One Class at a Time
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
Can we reform teaching and learning throughout higher education one class at a time? I used to think so, but the pace of change has made me less optimistic. I just finished preparing an article for The Teaching Professor newsletter that reports the results of a survey of 744 full- and part-time faculty teaching at eight two-year technical colleges across Georgia. The researchers presented the respondents with a list of 18 instructional strategies and asked them to identify how often they used each one in their last 10 class sessions. Over 90% of the respondents said they lectured for four or more class sessions with more than 50% of those saying they lectured during all 10 class sessions.
September 25 - Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
This 60-minute seminar will not only tell you what today’s students believe are the most essential qualities for effective teaching, but it will also prepare you to make simple and sometimes subtle changes to incorporate or develop practices and traits that resonate with students. The result? Improved academic outcomes and better course evaluations.
April 18 - Teaching with Confidence: Advice for New Faculty
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
In the now classic article Confidence in the Classroom: Ten Maxims for New Teachers, author Jim Eison offers priceless advice for new teachers. Over the years, I have given hundreds of copies of this article to new and not-so-new faculty. Even though it was published more than 20 years ago, it still deserves a place in your collection of indispensible articles on college teaching.
June 10 - 23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
For the new college teacher, it is best to learn from those who have been there. In 23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive, you will learn the tips and techniques that have proven successful for experienced faculty, and explore how they can be used and adapted in your own classes.
February 17 - Evidence-based Teaching: Staying Current on What Works
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
My former colleague Jim Fairweather has written a paper commissioned by the National Academies National Research Council Board of Science Education which makes some interesting points. But first a bit of background.
December 16 - Four Characteristics of Outstanding Teachers
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
The quest to identify the ingredients, components, and qualities of effective instruction has been a long one. Starting in the 1930s, researchers sought to identify the common characteristics of good teachers. Since then, virtually everybody who might have an opinion has been asked, surveyed, or interviewed.
December 6 - Things Effective Teachers Do
By: Mary Bart in Effective Teaching Strategies
It’s been a while since I was an undergrad, but I still remember my two favorite professors. They had completely different personalities and teaching styles, they even taught in different departments, but they did some things in very similar ways. I think that’s what made them so effective. It really wasn’t the content — although that was part of it — it was more the classroom experience they created.
October 27 - Why Being a Student Made Me a Better Teacher
By: Vickie Kelly, EdD in Effective Teaching Strategies
Congratulations! You’ve accepted a position as a professor, instructor, or lecturer. Now comes the hard part. Unless you have spent your professional career studying curriculum, instruction, assessment, online learning, classroom management, and the many other topics with which you now face, you have stepped into a whole new world. Your subject matter expertise or technical knowledge that got you the job is simply not enough.
December 3 - Teaching Strategies: Frequent Exams = Better Results for Students
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Educational Assessment
It’s not a new finding — in general, more exams lead to better grades—but it’s always nice when research confirms some of our best practices in teaching. In the educational assessment study referenced below [...]
