Do Overs: Ensure that students are given multiple opportunities to learn from their mistakes and make improvements. Ex. Paper revisions and test do-overs are two common ways to help students learn from their mistakes. Varied Assessments: If possible, try to…
Introduction to Microaggressions in the Classroom By watching these videos, we hope that you will achieve the following outcomes: Understand what microaggressions are; How they manifest themselves in the classroom; and Through discussion with colleagues and additional reading, learn best…
Goals: Based on the book Part Asian, 100% Hapa (2006) by Kip Fulbeck, this activity is designed to build community and help students learn about one another by expressing their identities on their terms. Download I Am Activity Presentation
Goals: (1) help students understand how their cultures affect their and others’ perceptions and behavior (2) raise student awareness of your classroom’s culture to help avoid culture-based misunderstandings Download Cultural Iceberg Presentation
Real World Application: Provide examples of modern applications of concepts to solve problems facing today’s world. Ex. In the Conceptual Physics class, I wove the concepts into three themes and taught all the concepts through these themes (driving, cooking, and…
A group of us here at the college have been trained in a bystander intervention model (some of those folks are even on this email thread). This training is geared specifically towards sexual assault, but it certainly has applicability for…
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 1:00 - 2:00 pm Germantown, PK 170 Facilitator: Carolien Annink Participants will discuss traditional teaching versus teaching for collaborative and active learning, and how it relates to student success. We will talk about systematic steps to…
Thursday, March 1, 2018 2:00 - 3:00 pm Rockville, MT 214 Facilitator: Angela Lanier “A” means excellent, “C” means average, “F” means failure. Or do they? What challenges do we face when determining grades, and what happens when students do…
ELITE Pedagogical Discussion Effective Strategies for Promoting Deep Learning in Your Courses Thursday, February 15, 2018 2:00-3:00 pm Rockville, SW205 Facilitator: Laurent Ndeze Professor may notice that some students experience surface learning while others experienced deep learning. We will talk…
Across U.S. higher education, the instructor faces the challenge of teaching the course’s learning outcomes, content, and skills to an increasingly diverse student population in a limited amount of time. Reaching these students will increase the chances that they will…