CTL Weekly Teaching Note
Increase Student Engagement with Poll Everywhere
Blog | Sep 04, 2015
Poll Everywhere is a web-based tool that enables you to gather responses from your students in real time, and seamlessly incorporate their responses into your class.
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Include High-Impact Teaching Practices to Make Learning Stick
Blog | Apr 28, 2015
Research on high-impact practices (HIPs) such as undergraduate research, learning communities, capstone courses, study abroad, internships and service learning documents the association between participating in those activities and achieving desirable learning outcomes.
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Use Elements of Cognitive Constructivism to Design Effective Learning Activities
Blog | Apr 21, 2015
Learning activities become more effective when we include four major elements in the design of the activity: activation of prior knowledge; surprise; opportunity to apply and evaluate the new knowledge; and reflection.
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Develop Expertise in Students by Creating Cognitive Apprenticeships
Blog | Apr 08, 2015
Learning in a discipline involves more than acquisition of content knowledge. Development of expertise requires students to develop skills in reasoning and strategies for solving disciplinary problems or applying disciplinary models to real-world applications. Fields with tradition of teaching through apprenticeships include trades and crafts dominated by skills and tasks that students can easily observe (e.g., building a cabinet, tailoring a piece of clothing). Academic disciplines present challenges because disciplinary strategies for reasoning and problem solving are cognitive strategies and are not readily observable. Nevertheless, students must acquire these skills to develop advanced skills in the discipline.
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Improving Student Learning with (Almost) No Grading
Blog | Apr 01, 2015
Strategies allowing students to know what they know (as well as what they don't know) and those that help students become appropriately self-confident are linked to improved student learning. Here are three strategies that may assist our students in becoming better learners while not burying us in grading.
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NYIT Faculty Talk about Teaching: Focus on International Students, Part 2
Blog | Mar 11, 2015