UP aims to cultivate world-citizenship in its students; are faculty up to the task? In this week’s Teaching & Learning submission, Lars Larson reviews the book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things are Better Than you Think that can help orient our global imaginations more accurately. For more information contact Larson at larson@up.edu.
Teaching & Learning Collaborative
Untethered Lecture Capture Workshop, April 3
The Teaching & Learning Collaborative will host one more peer-led workshop from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, in the Murphy Room of Franz Hall. Come hear Carolyn James, mathematics; Jeffrey White, Learning Commons; Rebecca Smith, education; and Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, offer tips and pitfalls of the newly popular approach to teaching content-heavy […]
New TLC Blog Entries: “Core Matters, Parts 3 & 4”
As part of an ongoing series of short essays on the Teaching & Learning Community Blog, two new pieces are ready to satisfy your core curriculum curiosity. Steve Mayer, chemistry, writes about the many ways chemistry classes contribute to the broader goals of a liberal arts education (while also fulfilling those pesky science requirements), and Heather Carpenter, environmental studies, writes […]
TLC Tip of the Week: When A Student Stops Showing Up
What do you do (or what CAN you do) when a student stops showing up to class? From a recent brownbag conversation on the topic, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative compiled concrete, specific suggestions from the Shepard Academic Resource Center, the Care Team and faculty colleagues. Big takeaways: follow through on attendance policies in your syllabus (changing […]
TLC From The TLC: Think-Pair-Share Explained
Think-Pair-Share is a classic way to improve equity and engagement in the classroom, according to Carolyn James, mathematics. Students think about a prompt individually, discuss their ideas in pairs, and the instructor leads a discussion as student share their ideas with the whole class. Think-Pair-Share can easily be extended; consider having students write during think time (even in a STEM class) […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Adding Library Resource Links in Moodle
When you add a link on your Moodle course page to an article in a library database or to a streaming video, how can you tell if the link will work for students connecting from off-campus? Most library databases offer the option to obtain a persistent or stable URL for individual articles or videos, and […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Bookmarking Bonanza For Teaching Resources
With some extended breaks coming up in the next two months, faculty may have more time to do professional reading than the usual academic schedule allows. There’s a boatload of scholarship on effective teaching strategies for college teachers of every discipline, with more on the way all the time. One of UP’s rock star librarians, […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Interactive Polling Tools
Election season is upon us, and the airwaves are full of conversations and commercials seeking to influence your vote. Take a break from the election chatter to learn about a different type of voting: interactive polling as a teaching tool. Interested in learning more? Check out this week’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative blog post to read about […]
TLC From The TLC: “Why English?”
Why do all UP students take an English course, regardless of their professional aims? This week on the Teaching & Learning Blog, English chair Lars Erik Larson details how ENG 112 works within UP’s Core program. This is the second essay in Core Matters, a year-long series started by Andrew Guest that offer a discipline-by-discipline explanation of our […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week
Happy New Year, academic-style, from the Teaching & Learning Collaborative, a loose conglomerate of twelve educators from across campus who strive to collect and coordinate resources and initiatives that support the superb teaching at the core of our shared mission. In every issue of upbeat, you’ll find access to a resource (reading, video, RFP) meant […]