Posts Tagged ‘teaching large classes’
April 24 - Teaching Large Classes: Strategies for Managing Large Lecture Courses
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching and Learning
Once I passed my 50th semester of introductory biology, I began to regret that my profession doesn’t have a real apprenticeship for teaching—why should every young professor facing his or her first big class…have to make the same mistakes I did and, perhaps more important, why should they not know that everybody…has the same problems?
April 2 - Objections to Active Learning
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Learning Styles
If you think everybody’s pretty much on board with the idea of active learning, think again. I was surprised to find an article that in its opening paragraph describes active learning as “a philosophy and movement that portends trouble for the future of higher education and the American professoriate.”
March 20 - Group Work Ineffective? Try Pairing Students for Better Accountability, Learning
By: Denise D. Knight in Effective Teaching Strategies
Although group work can provide a welcome change to the regular classroom routine, the results are rarely all positive. Invariably, one or two students in each group, because they are shy or lack self-confidence, are reluctant to share their input. These are often the same students who have to be coaxed to participate in large
March 17 - Tips for Teaching Large Classes Online
By: Rob Kelly in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education, Trends in Higher Education
Jonathan P. Mathews, assistant professor of energy and geo-environmental engineering at Penn State University, teaches a high-enrollment (more than 400 students) general education online course, Energy and the Environment. Although he has two teaching assistants, the logistics of managing such a large class would be overwhelming without implementing the following course design and management ideas.
February 24 - Large Courses and Student Expectations
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching and Learning
Have you tried implementing some active learning strategies in a large course only to find students resisting those efforts? You put students in groups and give them some challenging discussion questions, only to see most of them sitting silently while a few make feeble comments to which no one in the group responds.
October 21 - Strategies for Teaching Large Classes
By: Wordpress Admin in Free Reports, Teaching & Learning
Sometimes you look out from the podium at the sea of faces looking back at you, and you wonder: Is this a class or a rock concert? Most educators would agree that their ideal teaching environment would be (to carry the musical theme a little further) the equivalent of an intimate, acoustic, coffee-shop performance.
