Posts Tagged ‘engage students’
June 17 - Student Engagement: Trade-offs and Payoffs
By: E. Shelley Reid in Effective Classroom Management
I dread the moments when I look out into a classroom and see a collection of blank stares or thumbs clicking on tiny keypads: a pool of disengaged students, despite what I thought was a student-centered activity. Recently, I have been considering how teachers (me specifically) undermine our own efforts to engage students.
April 27 - Transforming Your Teaching Style: A Student-Centered Approach
By: Patty H. Phelps, EdD in Philosophy of Teaching
When I started teaching 27 years ago, like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz I believed that just having a brain would make me successful. And so each class session I would literally “take the stage” on a raised platform to deliver what was in my head and on my papers. Even though there were 60 students in the class, there could just as well have been none because I basically ignored the students. They were objects, sponges whose task was to absorb course content.
February 1 - Enhance Learning Opportunities with Just-in-Time Instructional Support
By: Rob Kelly in Instructional Design
Sometimes a teachable moment occurs when a student is stuck, other times it’s when a topic has sparked her interest. In an email interview, Eric Frierson, an instructional technology librarian at the University of Texas–Arlington, shares strategies for online instructors to capitalize on both types of teachable moments.
December 11 - Redesigning Learning Spaces to Improve Teaching and Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
The most effective college renovations don’t just happen. They begin with the idea of engaging learners through classroom redesigns. This seminar will showcase innovative ways to incorporate the latest technologies into powerful new learning spaces.
November 23 - Synching up with Your Asynchronous Learners
By: Rob Kelly in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
Some students are reluctant to enroll in online courses, afraid they will miss some of the social aspects of the face-to-face classroom. For these students, it makes sense to incorporate online synchronous sessions to provide some of the benefits of the face-to-face class while maintaining most of the flexibility of an asynchronous online course.
November 18 - Can Clickers Enhance Student Learning?
By: Mary Bart in Effective Teaching Strategies
Dr. Peter M. Saunders, director of Oregon State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning, has heard the horror stories, and understands why faculty were hesitant to use clickers in the early years.
August 18 - Values Surveys: Linking Course Content and Students’ Lives
By: Barbara A. Mezeske in Teaching and Learning
Last week, while teaching Dante’s Inferno, I moderated a lively two-day class discussion about medieval and modern values and religion. How did Dante define virtue? How do we define it? For Dante, why was lust not as terrible a sin as theft of property? Why did his age consider gluttony a moral failing rather than a self-destructive behavior that one can take to Jenny Craig?
July 6 - How to Use the First Day of Class to Set the Tone for Entire Semester
By: Mary Bart in Effective Classroom Management
On top of everything college faculty are responsible for, there’s one that may be easy to overlook or even deem as unnecessary: Teaching students how to be students. Do so at your peril because most students need a little help understanding and practicing the skills and behaviors they need to succeed.
June 17 - Using Twitter to Facilitate Classroom Discussions
By: Mary Bart in Effective Teaching Strategies
As a history major I usually found most of my history courses pretty interesting. Certainly some were more interesting than others but I think a lot of that had more to do with the instructor than the content. Of course not every student who takes a history class course plans to major in it, which is why I love it when I hear about a history professor (or any educator for that matter) doing innovative things to engage students in one of those “core courses” many students often dread.
