I am delighted to welcome Maggie Gilchrist back to the CITL. You might have worked with her when she was our Graduate Assistant Instructional Consultant in 2022-2023. In October 2023, Maggie joined our colleagues at the IU Indianapolis CTL working full-time as an Instructional Technology Consultant. I asked Maggie about her work there and what… Read more »
QuickTip: Find short activities that boost student learning in class and online
All IU campuses now have access to the 3rd edition ebook of Classroom Assessment Techniques: Formative Feedback Tools for College and University Teachers. This book describes over 50 techniques to help instructors quickly gauge student learning, indexed by teaching goal, cognitive goal, or discipline. One popular technique is the Background Knowledge Probe (p. 125-129), used… Read more »
Welcoming your students and setting them up for success
Welcome back to another school year! We hope you feel refreshed from the summer and are ready to welcome your new colleagues and our new students to campus. This post will focus on ways to welcome your students to class. It is the first in a series aimed at helping you start your semester on… Read more »
What’s going on in my classes? A mid-semester survey can give you some clues
Is it time for a check-in with your students? Are you wondering how your students are feeling about your class, its climate, your teaching practices, and their learning? Using a well-crafted mid-semester survey can help you answer some of these questions. Mid-semester surveys are a great way for students to tell you what is working… Read more »
Mid-semester feedback: how do I collect useful data?
Instructors in classes of all sizes can benefit from mid-semester feedback. Student feedback can help you identify what is helping or hindering your students’ learning, better understand your students’ experiences in class, understand their perspectives on your course and assignment design, and gather their suggestions for changes that will benefit their learning. You can also… Read more »
Quick Tip: Learning and Using Student Names
Are you struggling to learn student names? Here are ways that our IUB instructors learn and use student names. Use name tents. Ask students to create tents using card stock, index cards, or erasable table tents. When using erasable tents, students write their names on one side and use the other side to respond to… Read more »