One promising practice for deepening students’ engagement with material in just about every discipline is “flipping the classroom,” in which the teacher provides background information to students online prior to face-to-face class sessions, in which learners then play with the ideas, solve complex problems drawing on the content, and many variations on that theme. UP’s […]
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TLC Tip of the Week: Creating Engaging Media Assignments
Faculty members who are interested in having students use video, design, or audio tools in their classrooms can visit the Digital Lab and schedule a consultation and collaborate on a multimedia assignment, according to Jose Velazco, Clark Library. The Digital Lab provides instruction on software, loans, equipment, and will work one-to-one with faculty to create engaging assignments meeting curricular goals and offering professional […]
TLC from the TLC: Flipping Your Classroom?
This week’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative article is by Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. He addresses the idea of “flipped” classrooms, where course content is consumed primarily outside the classroom, with instructional time devoted to application or mastery of the material. “Nothing seems to polarize my students more than their opinion of ‘flipped classrooms,’” he says, and […]
TLC from the TLC: Students (and Instructors) as Political Animals
It is highly likely, across the past few months, that America’s 2016 election has worked its way into your classroom or even your curriculum. In this week’s Teaching & Learning Tip, Lars Erik Larson corrals a series of insights from NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (pictured), who helps explain some unexpected roots beneath our political […]
Butine Faculty Development Fund Awards
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2016-2017 Butine Faculty Development Fund Fall cycle, according to committee chair Aaron Wootton, mathematics. Butine award recipients are: Alfrey, Lauren: “Geek Girls: Race, Gender and Power in the Tech Industry,” $3,300 Barber, Halina & Amber Vermeesch: “Road Less Traveled: Stressors and Coping […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Early Alert
This week’s TLC Tip of the Week comes from early alert coordinator Gina Loschiavo, who has visited just about every department on campus this fall and fielded several recurring questions from faculty as they strive to implement Early Alert in their teaching and advising with students. We thought doing this in the form of an […]
TLC from the TLC: Rethinking How Office Hours Are Kept
This week’s selection from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative comes from Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. Like many UP professors, he does his best to carve office hours in stone, held invioalate for the good of his students, but life always seems to do its best to wreak havoc on his best laid plans. Sound familiar? […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Using Failure as a Chance to Teach
The Shepard Academic Resource Center supports the learning of all students, and staff are always alert to news of promising classroom practices that get students to take responsibility for their learning. Learning assistance counselor Br. Tom Giumenta, C.S.C., assembled a brief essay that combines emerging insights from neuroscience with the Holy Cross charism of Hope. “So […]
TLC from the TLC: Internationalization
This week from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative: As one area of focus in the Strategic Plan Vision 2020 (D), international integration in the university will provide opportunities for students to engage in intercultural and interfaith dialogue and practices. Using a variety of approaches, a course might introduce one assignment or an entire module structured around […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: A Brief Tour of Our Campus’s Handbook to Writing
Improving the writing skills of our students across their four years is a cross-campus shared responsibility. Fortunately, both faculty and students have an enlightened resource – a common campus handbook – to help foster a shared vocabulary, writing strategies, and documentation expertise. The most recent update of this blazingly necessary resource offers faculty the chance to […]