You spent tons of time on it, now how to get your students to read your syllabus? In this video I share five easy-to-enact tips that I use for my syllabi. The five step are based on this short Chronicle piece. These tips are based on the more detailed article, How to create a syllabus.
Teaching Tip – TTT
Articles and resources to empower your teaching experience.
Teaching – Take the Rubik’s Cube Challenge: An Expert Blind Spot Adventure
Looking for a fun and educational distraction over the break? Join colleagues from Furman University and Denison for a six-week Rubik’s Cube Challenge: An Expert Blindspot Adventure. Our recent experience with pandemic teaching has thrust us into novel learning environments and forced us to consider how best to learn under such conditions. One common challenge of expert instructors is understanding the learning needs of novice students, known as an expert blind spot.
Teaching – Online and Take-home Exams
Exam week is remote this year. How do we structure our final assessments so students can demonstrate what they’ve learned, but minimize issues with academic integrity? We have several resources. Here are some tips from Mount Holyoke’s Teaching Center on alternatives to online exams. If an online exam is necessary, consider these suggestions from the Center at Amherst or this list of ideas from Inside Higher Ed.
Teaching – Helping Students Get Through the Semester
Just a few more weeks – the end of the semester is in sight. You’re feeling it and so are your students. This Chronicle piece gives some practical advice on helping students finish the semester.
Teaching – connecting remote and in-class students
The hybrid classroom presents of number of challenges. A common concern is getting remote students and in-class students to interact during class discussion. Jonathan Maskit, Philosophy, has found a clever way to use his iPhone, laptop, and classroom computer to make sure his remote and online students can clearly see and hear each other during class discussions.
Teaching – advice for and from our remote students
Last week, in conjunction with the Remote Student Advisory Board and the Provost Office, ETS conducted a survey of remote students and the issues they are experiencing:
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- hearing the class
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- seeing the whiteboard
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- internet connection
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- lack of connection to campus
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- being remote in a hybrid class
Take a look at the complete findings and suggested solutions for how to meet these challenges.
Teaching – 10/06/2020 Teaching – intro to Center’s new blog resource
Finally! You’ve asked – please put the TTTs in one place and make them searchable. As you wish: https://blogs.denison.edu/teaching-center-updates/. Also on the site, hybrid and remote teaching strategies from Denison instructors, as well as an introduction to our new faculty members. The below video gives a quick overview of the site and how to search for useful teaching resources.
Teaching – what are they thinking
As the fall semester develops, so do the needs of our students. This Chronicle piece – What students want their professors to know – helps us understand about this challenging semester.
Teaching – making sense of student feedback
My least favorite moment of the semester? When I get that email saying my course evaluations are available. Yes, even after all these years, it still gives me a twinge in my stomach. Want to discuss recent course feedback? Please contact me (ludwigl@denison.edu) to set up a time and place.
On a related note, would you like some feedback on your course?
Teaching- how to read course evaluations
You’ve collected early term course feedback from your students. Now what? This half-page from Washington University gives practical advice on responding to midterm evaluations. Here is the go to article from the Chronicle on how to read a student evaluation of your teaching.