Weekly Teaching Tips

Fall'08

• Roundtable
• Attendance in Large Classes
• Composite Grading
• Complementing your print-based syllabus with a graphic syllabus
• What is worth Grading
• Metacognitive Journal
• Notetakers
• Importance of Students’ Prior Knowledge
• Structured Problem Solving

Spring'09

• Merlot Online Resources
• Classroom Assessment Technique: Categorizing Grid
• Concept Maps
• The Key Components of Integrated Course Design
• A Classroom Assessment Technique: Key Principle and Restating
• Knowledge Surveys1
• Knowledge Surveys2
• Strategies for Learning Names in Large Classes
• What Students Say Motivates Them
• Topic: Importance of Students’ Prior Knowledge
• Factors that Lead to Rapport
• Grading Rubrics
• Situational Factors for Course Planning and Syllabus Construction
• Time-efficient Teaching
• Quick Thinks
• Using “Clickers” (Personal Response Systems) to Promote Learning
• Free Teleseminar: “Cures for the Care of the Overwhelmed Caregiver”
• Getting Published—Even When You are Researching your Own Teaching

Fall'09

• Limit Assessment/Grading Criteria to Just a Few Items
• Retention During a Learning Episode
• Send-a-Problem
• Uncommon Commonalities
• VARK Learning Preferences Questionnaire
• Teaching for Diversity
• Motivating Students through Just-in-time Teaching