by Mendi Benigni | Nov 12, 2019 | Assessment, Collaboration, Faculty Focus, Pedagogy, Teaching Advice
I was inspired by a Faculty Focus article when creating this newsletter. This article spoke about adding role playing activities to your teaching to act as practicum experience but I think you can take it further. The article states, “Role play can be...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 19, 2019 | Assessment, Best Practices, Collaboration, Distance Ed, Pedagogy
TLThd is launching a new service to all instructors at CofC…CLASS OBSERVATIONS These observations can be for your face-to-face or your online classes. An instructional technologist will come to your class (or review your OAKS online class) and observe you and...
by Mendi Benigni | Jun 6, 2019 | Collaboration, Innovative Instruction, Pedagogy
Do you teach in a large, fixed-seating classroom and think you can’t do group work successfully? Well think again! Team-based Learning, or TBL, is a teaching strategy that is an “evidence based collaborative learning … strategy designed around units...
by Michael S. Overholt | Sep 19, 2018 | Innovative Instruction, Pedagogy, TLTCon
Effortful retrieval—bleh! The terminology ages more like milk than wine. Fortunately, it’s a concept with substance and one of the main learning strategies promoted in Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Most educators have fallen for gimmicks...
by Jessica Smith | May 10, 2018 | Best Practices, Innovative Instruction, Pedagogy, Teaching Advice
Summer is a great time to catch up on reading! When you take a break from your research, why not explore the scholarship of teaching and learning? Here are my current favorite books related to pedagogy, student engagement, and how the brain works: Cheating Lessons by...