…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…
…ask students to go outside to apply the topics covered in lecture. This basic expectation of field labs can be upheld in the online environment, though modifications to field labs…
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…as think-pair-share, a Socratic discussion, or small group activity. Even a small transition from lecture to a short video clip that illustrates the lecture’s key topics is helpful. I’ve also…
