…Attend to information. How often are your students checking text messages while listening to your lecture, arguing that they are really good at multitasking? Remind your students that most failures…
…role TAs will fill and the courses best suited for TAs. Some programs use graduate students in “lab” sections to support a faculty member’s large lecture course. In my field,…
…activities to put students on the path to success. Taylor and Francis, Inc. Dutill, J. & Wehler, M. (2017) Microlecture Template. The Online Lecture Toolkit. Retrieved from https://www.onlinelecturetoolkit.com/ Works Consulted…
…One reason is that we focus too much on teaching, and not enough on learning. Students, therefore, don’t really get to grapple with the topic you just lectured about. They’re…
…Remember the TA probably has no formal teaching experience, so class preparation is new to them. As the professor’s assistant, the TA may be expected to deliver lecture material, formulate…
Our “office hours off campus” idea transpired from a speech given by Dr. Iain Campbell at a publisher’s workshop we attended. Dr. Campbell teaches large biology lecture courses at the…
Although Kathleen Koenig was terrified of public speaking as a student, she now teaches lecture classes with 135+ students. As an associate professor in the Physics Department at the University…
…Could I forgo that lecture? Absolutely not. When it came to a final count, I was up to 26 lectures. Too many? Not if I made those lectures stimulating. I…
