Monthly Archives: November 2011
Quick Tips on Teaching
Erin Blevins, the Departmental Teaching Fellow for Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, shares her quick tip on teaching. How do you conduct a review session? Continue reading »
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
In today’s guest post, Sam Richardson generously shares his statement of teaching philosophy. Sam is a graduate student in the department of Health Policy, and recently participated in the Bok Center’s Designing the Course of the Future seminar. I see each new student who comes into my classroom as an intelligent novice. My mission as a teacher … Continue reading »
Quick Tips on Teaching
Heidi Tworek, the Departmental Teaching Fellow for History, shares her quick tip on teaching. What warm-up activities/exercises have you used in section? Continue reading »
Around the Web: Our Minds, Our Learning
What’s in a brain? In the Chronicle of Higher Education, James Lang offers the first installment of a two-part post on memory: how it really works (hint: it’s not the long-outmoded tripartite model—long-term, short-term, and sensory—on which many faculty members still base their pedagogy), and how it might inform the way we teach. Some elementary schools are … Continue reading »
Around the Web: Continuities between Life and Learning
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a special issue out on online education, well worth reading in full. (In a sign that online is here to stay, Idaho became the first state to require credits earned online for a high school diploma.) Many of the articles in the special issue discuss ways in which online education does … Continue reading »
A Classic for a Reason: McKeachie’s Teaching Tips
McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers Reviewed by Nicole Deterding, Departmental Teaching Fellow for Sociology Marilla Svinicki and Wilbert McKeachie’s Teaching Tips, first published in 1950 and now in its 13th edition, offers a hearty bread-and-butter treatment of college teaching that will both sate hungry first-time instructors and give … Continue reading »
Creative Assignment Chaos?
Among the many things I learned at the Bok Center’s Fall Teaching Conference was this: TFs are anxious about creative assignments. During a panel sponsored by the Program in General Education, creative assignments came up again and again. How should they be evaluated? What should prompts look like? What campus resources can TFs rely on? … Continue reading »
Quick Tips on Teaching
Hannah Hofheinz, the Departmental Teaching Fellow for the Study of Religion, shares her quick tip on teaching. What practices have you used to build the working relationships among your students? Continue reading »
Around the Web: Hitting the Books
What will the textbook of the future look like? There has been a lot of buzz about e-textbooks this year. Will the iPad be the platform that turns the tide? What will collaborations between book publishers and educational platforms bring? Will late-adopting professors, publisher restrictions, questionable fees, and the nonexistence of a secondary market doom the conversion to digital? Will open-source … Continue reading »
