Teaching methods

Graphic organizers allow students to visualize, order, and categorize concepts using verbal representations & visuals.

Discussion can engage students and help them to see different perspectives. Here are strategies you can use to create a discussion-rich classroom."I want

Are you considering using a team project in your course?  Have you used them before but feel that there’s room for improvement?

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Celebrating Think-Pair-Share, the Little Strategy That Could, and sharing some best practices for making it work for you.

Imagine two groups of students in your physics class or lab. In Group A, the students each take on a different task but invest an equal amount of time, energy, and effort in what they do. For examp...

Importantly, reflective writing centers a learner's experience and therefore gets students to connect the material with their own experiences.

Enjoy quick video clips from Liquid Margins 24, “Hybrid, Hyflex, F2F,” for using visual annotations, teaching accessibility in annotations, and sustaining living, breathing documents.

Introducing long-term memory and working memory: o Key features, and limitations o How do they interact during learning to build (and then use) the knowledge base. o Guidelines to aligning teaching and learning strategies with learning stages.

I’ve been asked to talk a little more about how I help prepare teams for success in my online courses. Fortunately, I’m not the only one writing about this. A recent article in Inside Higher Ed by …

Rebecca Hogue talks about Demystifying Online Group Projects on episode 403 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Flipgrid is an asynchronous video conversation tool that adds the human touch to your online courses!

Rachelle O’Brien and Nicola Whitton talk about playful learning and virtual escape rooms on episode 402 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Scroll down the page to access teaching resources: participation forms and role playing.

The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

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by Cynthia J. Brame Print Version Cite this guide: Brame, C. (2013). Flipping the classroom. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Retrieved [todaysdate] from http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/flipping-the-classroom/.   “Flipping the classroom” has become something of a buzzword in the last several years, driven in part by high profile publications in The New York Times (Fitzpatrick, 2012); The Chronicle...

Now is a moment to consider how we approach teaching & how our philosophy of teaching and our core values about education come to life in what we do in the classroom.

Research shows that high-quality instructional materials can make a difference for students—yet less than 33 percent of materials used in classrooms are alig...

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UCLA Multiple ModalityTeaching Resources + Recommendations These days, UCLA instructors teach in an array of classroom structures and modalities. This document is designed to point you to resources, ideas, and recommendations that might be useful for your course. The table on p. 2 summarize...

Each time I have been able to talk with an expert about how they are making learning active in their classroom, I have walked away from the conversation inspired. I have been contemplating putting…

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