Culturally responsive teaching involves “using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them” (Gay, 2010, as cited in Muniz, 2019, p. 9). …
Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT): Utilizing information about our students’ backgrounds and learning to tailor instruction in ways that facilitate their learning and increase their opportunities for success (MC TIDES Grant Project, 2014-2017). Microaggression: Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and…
What Is Chunking? Chunking is the process used to organize or classify a large content of information into small parts and group the parts (chunks) into categories or classification that makes the information easier to understand and remember (Puskar, 2022).…
When seeking efficient and reliable measures of student learning, instructors often turn to multiple-choice assessments. After all, multiple-choice questions tend to be easier to grade and more objective than their open-ended counterparts. However, multiple-choice assessments are more than just convenient. …
What is Edpuzzle? Edpuzzle is an online video tool that creates interactive lectures with previously recorded or pre-existing videos from other web sources such as YouTube. Edpuzzle offers light editing tools, voiceover, and the ability to add multiple-choice and open-ended…
What is Ungrading? Principles of Ungrading Common Ungrading Strategies Why Consider Ungrading? A Few Challenges to Ungrading How to Get Started with Ungrading Additional Resources References What is Ungrading? Ungrading, also referred to as “degrading,” “going gradeless,” and “decentered grading,”…
Purpose Conflict stoppers are actions that students can take to prevent common classroom conflicts or to keep an existing confl ict from getting out of hand. They are a critical part of the formal Problem Solving—My Part process, in which…