Articles and resources to empower your teaching experience.
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:
Take a look at the complete findings and suggested solutions for how to meet these challenges.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Many of us use midterm course evaluations. As suggested in the faculty meeting, now would be a good time to get feedback from your classes to see how this unique semester is going. Here are three different feedback forms:
Thanks to the good work of Neica Raker (CfLT) and Jason Bowles (U Comm) the Center has a blog page. Meet your new colleagues in the meet our new faculty section or peruse the hybrid and remote teaching strategies from Denison faculty. For the next phase, we plan to archive the TTTs and make them searchable – more soon!
Now that you getting the hang of those breakout rooms in Zoom, consider this article from Faculty Focus to improve your breakout game.
Thanks to the good work of Neica Raker (CfLT) and Jason Bowles (U Comm) the Center has a blog page. Meet your new colleagues in the meet our new faculty section or peruse the hybrid and remote teaching strategies from Denison faculty. For the next phase, we plan to archive the TTTs and make them searchable – more soon!
What’s your favorite active learning strategy – think-pair-share, small group discussions, entry/exit tickets? This chart (Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner, LSU,) outlines some common active learning strategies and corresponding approaches appropriate for a physical distanced classrooms or synchronous/asynchronous remote teaching.
