As another entry in the ongoing Teaching and Learning Collaborative blog series on student mental health, this week’s post offers an update on a recent brownbag discussion with faculty, academic staff, and Eliot Altschul from the Health and Counseling Center. We talked about some basic updates on mental health services at UP, and also discussed hypothetical but […]
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TLC From The TLC: Student-Athletes and Mental Health
In this week’s installment by the Teaching and Learning Collaborative, Andre Guest asks: Do student-athletes have particular mental health concerns that faculty and academic staff should be aware of? The short answer is yes and no. The slightly longer answer is offered in a brief two part series on the UP Teaching & Learning Community […]
TLC From The TLC: On Teaching Students How to Learn Your Discipline
If professors are finding that students in class aren’t learning, one remedy is to make sure we’ve made time to teach them how. In this week’s Teaching & Learning post, Lars Erik Larson summarizes two easy ways we can make our assignments and our fields more accessible and transparent to undergraduates, particularly first-generation and non-traditional students.
TLC From The TLC: Hover Much?
This week’s offering from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative is actually a question that super hardworking professors committed to their students’ learning and success might ask themselves as they address the 87th email asking “what exactly are you looking for in this assignment?” or “what can I do to make up the points I missed when […]
TLC From The TLC: Letter of Recommendation Recommendations
“The air is starting to cool. The days are getting shorter. The rain is coming back. It can only mean one thing – letter of recomendation season has returned (also, pumpkin spice everything),” according to Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. “Most of us have never received any formal training in how to write a letter of […]
TLC from the TLC: Where To Turn for Student Help, Concerns
This week, as a third installment in the Teaching and Learning Collaborative blog series on mental health information for faculty and academic staff, meet the new and returning professional psychologists at the UP Health and Counseling Center. When we have concerns about students, who are the professionals that might help us know what to do, and who […]
TLC from the TLC: Practicing Recall
Retrieval practice is essential for deeper, durable learning. In this week’s TLC Blog, Jeffrey White introduces books that discuss strategies for incorporating the practice of recall into learning and teaching, including Make it Stick by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel and Small Teaching by James Lang. For more information contact White at x7141 or white@up.edu.
Encouraging Connection Across Courses
By the time they graduate, our undergraduates will have taken some 40 separate courses at UP. But do we ever invite them to ponder the linkages? In this week’s Teaching & Learning post, English department chair Lars Larson explores how and why students may come most alive in our curriculum by doing what we in our […]
TLC Tip of the Week: See It Right Here!
As the year gets underway, all faculty are reminded that the Teaching and Learning Collaborative exists to provide a range of resources and tips to help us hone our teaching craft. Each week, upbeat will publish a Tip of the Week; these will be archived in the very searchable TLC website, www.up.edu/tl. There you will find […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Breaking the Cramming Cycle
The middle of midterm season forces us to come to grips with the fact that many students resort to cramming for exams. It seems to work well enough, but two days later it’s as if learning the material never happened. Employ the tools of recency, frequency, and potency to help students cram less and remember more. […]