Looking back to look ahead It seems a lot of people don’t want to look back to 2020, but for professors who want pointers and strategies for teaching online, in particular, The Scholarly Teacher blog makes looking back look good. They’ve just posted a link to their top-10 read posts of 2020, which you can […]
Handwritten notes worth the effort Sometimes I’m lucky enough to get a handwritten note from a student I’ve worked with at the end of a semester. It makes me feel so special! Who, me? Usually it’s a writing tutor who has worked for me for a few years, of course, or another student I’ve known […]
Remote instruction: What do we now know? Are you wondering what your colleagues have learned about remote instruction over the past few months? At the recent joint FYE and Remote Teaching Faculty Learning Community, participants were invited to respond on a Google Jamboard to answer and share what they’d learned about online teaching this semester. […]
Studio art classes as proving grounds for remote teaching tools I need my students to connect course concepts and projects to art history, but I am not an art historian. Sometimes I assemble slideshows and speak briefly about each artwork as it relates to the studio artist’s search for hints and inspiration, but I doubt […]
It’s not too late… Yes, it may be Week 11, but it’s not too late to check in with your students about course outcomes. Devoting part of a class to examining course learning outcomes and their connection to specific activities and assignments can help you and your students see what they have already accomplished. It […]