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 […]
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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.
When You’re Worried About Student Mental Health: A Resource
As a second installment on the Teaching and Learning Collaborative blog of resources for ways faculty and staff on the academic side of the University can attend to student mental health, Andrew Guest offers some information from The Jed Foundation – a national organization UP has started working with through their ‘campus program.’ This includes some informational resources about […]
An Added Dimension for TLC: Student Mental Health
This year the Teaching and Learning Collaborative is hoping to add some information to its usual good fare about ways faculty and staff on the academic side of the University can attend to student mental health. As an opening foray, Andrew Guest (chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences) writes on the TLC blog with […]
TLC from the TLC: VoiceThread Is In The House
If you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground in the world of education technology, you’ve likely heard of VoiceThread. It’s a widely-known tool that’s used in everything from online graduate courses to kindergarten classrooms. Now, according to Ben Kahn, academic technology services, the University has added VoiceThread to its toolbox, so now you, too, can […]
Flip Your Classroom: A TLC Workshop for All Faculty on February 23
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 […]
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: 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 […]
TLC from the TLC: Helping Students Utilize Services
Do you wonder why some students eligible for accommodations through accessible education services (AES) do not actually use their accommodations? According to Melanie Gangle, accessible education services, in a recent qualitative study, students identified six key reasons: (1) Desire for self-sufficiency, (2) Desire to avoid negative social reactions, (3) Insufficient knowledge about their accommodations, (4) Quality and […]
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 […]