What’s the Big Deal About Active Learning?
September 16, 2019 By Shelley Howell, Ed.D. If you’ve been teaching for any length of time, you’ve probably heard the term active learning. What do...
Students learn best when they are in a positive and safe environment that engages and challenges them intellectually. The following teaching tips are a mix of self-paced modules, recorded presentations and workshops, handbooks, guides, and articles created by us, other institutions, and thought leaders, to enhance teaching, engage students, and create innovative instruction for student success and educational excellence.
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Course Design – The Big 3
August 20, 2019 By Shelley Howell, Ed.D. It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you first design a course. There so much to cover, and so...
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Group Projects
The ability to work in groups is one of the top requirements of employers. Students, on the other hand, tend to hate them. This comes...
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Effective Class Discussions
Discussions offer the opportunity to hear student perspectives and engage in debate and dialogue. They also present challenges like encouraging participation among a wide variety...
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Delivering an Effective Lecture
Lecture still dominates as the primary instructional strategy used by faculty. Lecturing provides an opportunity to explain challenging material, add interest to readings, and link...
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Designing an Effective Course
Whether you’re prepping a new course or refreshing an old one, planning is an essential component to the success of your courses. Here are 10...
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Promoting Higher Order Thinking
Higher order thinking (HOT) is thinking on a level that is higher than memorizing or restating facts. It requires students to know and understand the...
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Five Steps to Effective Course Design
First, you must know what you want your students to know and be able to do when they complete your course. Dee Fink: Designing Courses...
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Texas Core Curriculum – Empirical and Quantitative Skills
The TCC Objectives include manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions. Developing Quantitative Skills Remember to provide paths forward...
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Texas Core Curriculum – Critical Thinking
The TCC Objectives include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information. Developing Critical Thinking Skills Tutorials (developed by Joe Lau &...