Active Learning Active learning has been shown to have a great number of benefits for student learning. It’s never too late in the semester to begin incorporating these strategies into your course! Before introducing an activity, it is strongly recommended to explain the purpose and benefits of the active learning strategy… Continue reading…
Using Teams in the Classroom You may be wondering the best ways to leverage Teams to support teaching and learning regardless of teaching face-to-face, hybrid, or online. Many students will likely use Microsoft Teams in their future careers, so now is a great time to start learning how to use… Continue reading…
Combatting Disengagement If you have been noticing higher levels of student disengagement recently, you are not alone. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education outlined common trends related to a larger “student disengagement crisis” that instructors across the country are facing including a combination of post-pandemic academic challenges, widespread mental… Continue reading…
Final Assessment Tips Towards the end of the semester, minds are turning towards end of semester assignments and exams which can add stress for everyone. As faculty we need to prepare meaningful ways to measure the students’ learning and support them in preparing for those final assessments.
Encouraging Students to Learn how to Learn Although we might want to assume that our students are coming to class prepared to learn every day, that is simply not the case. In a March 2024 article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, It’s time to start teaching your students how to… Continue reading…
Midterm Grades This information focusses on preparing to hold mid-semester feedback opportunities and submit mid-term grades. Check out our Spring 2024 mid-term grades teaching tips for more information about the purpose of mid-term grades and how to discuss them with your students.
Teaching and Jewish Holidays The Jewish High Holiday season begins with Rosh Hashanah followed by Sukkot and Simchat Torah. These teaching tips provide resources to help you support students during these times and other Jewish holidays. Additional resources for further reading are also provided. Jewish Holidays Q & A. You may have questions about Jewish… Continue reading…
Teaching and Hindu Holidays Several important Hindu holidays include Navaratri, Dussehra, and Diwali. Check out this multi-religious calendar from Yale to save the dates for holidays for the 2024/25 AY and this one from Virginia Tech for 25/26. You may have questions about Hindu holidays and how they are celebrated. The teaching tips… Continue reading…
Trauma Informed Teaching and Natural Disasters Access a full text version and enlarged image of the Trauma-Informed Teaching Principles graphic. Natural disasters affecting our state and beyond have deeply impacted our UNCG community. As instructors, it’s important to recognize how these challenges impact students’ ability to learn and engage. When we… Continue reading…
Growth Mindsets Faculty can view ability through either a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. A growth mindset sees students’ abilities as flexible, improving with effort and resources – in other words, that ability can literally be grown (Yeager et al 2019). A fixed mindset assumes intelligence is static, believing… Continue reading…
