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 […]
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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 from the TLC: The Excitement of Academic Learning
This week’s Teaching & Learning Collaborative tip is an article by Jeffrey White, international languages and cultures, who serves as administrator of the Shepard Academic Resource Center’s Learning Commons. His article, “The Excitement of Academic Learning,” details how last year a total of 1,180 UP students worked together with peer assistants in the Learning Commons to […]
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 […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Music in the Classroom
Faculty who have considered using music in the classroom can find a good deal of information on that subject in the book Music and Learning by Chris Brewer (1995), according to Jose Velazco, library. In this article, Brewer describes simple ways music can be used to positively affect learning in the classroom. Readers can visit […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week
Many faculty look for ways to get students to read assignment requirements more carefully and take opportunities to revise seriously. This article from Faculty Focus provides four straightforward strategies for getting college students to use annotation of their own work to show differences among drafts, links to assignment requirements, promote a growth mindset (practice can make perfect, […]
TLC from the TLC: Video on Autism Spectrum Disorder
The number of students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is growing across the nation, according to Melanie Gangle, accessible education services. At the University, there have also been growing numbers of students diagnosed with ASD. The diagnosis of ASD includes the previously-known category of Asperger Syndrome, also known as high-functioning autism spectrum. To learn more […]
Light on the First Day
The Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC) is committed to providing all faculty members weekly resources to support excellent teaching on campus. Members of the TLC represent many different units on campus: SARC, internationalization, technology, and educational theory. Resources published in upbeat are meant to be read in the amount of time it take you to […]
TLC Tip of the Week
It’s getting to be that time of the semester – projects are wrapping up, finals being taken, and there are crucial grades to be entered. This week’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative tip offers faculty a few helpful pointers for entering grades into Moodle. This short video offers three easy tips to make entering grades into […]
Thinking Through Teaching Quotations
This week’s Teaching and Learning website submission offers two-dozen quotations from various writers pondering the situation and purpose of teaching. As the quotations jostle, complement, and contradict each other, their philosophies may provoke faculty to think through and articulate their own classroom ideals. The Teaching and Learning website can be found here. For more information, […]