April 5, 2016Teaching Tips Activating prior knowledge revamped As a department, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is reading How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. For […]
March 22, 2016April 12, 2016Teaching Tips Make it count A colleague and I were discussing how to support a group of students as the semester winds down. We started thinking through […]
February 16, 2016February 29, 2016Teaching Tips Break It Down to Build It Up During the first few weeks of school, I did not collect much of my students writing because much of their writing occurs […]
February 9, 2016February 9, 2016Teaching Tips Sometimes You Just Need to Stop and Check In As I longingly stared outside my window watching the snow fall yesterday, I prayed for a snow day. I often wonder if the […]
February 2, 2016February 2, 2016Teaching Tips Community Sustaining Community building often happens in the first few days of the semester, but after attending a faculty development session last week, it […]