In 1998 the Carnegie foundation launched the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Higher Education program with the goal to “render teaching public, subject to critical evaluation, and usable by others in both the scholarly and the general community.” It was through this program that the International Society for the Scholarship… Read more »
Don’t start from scratch. Start with the evidence.
“Research shows that students learn more and are more likely to succeed when research-proven pedagogical techniques are used and learning environments are inclusive” (Boyer Commission, 2022, p. 25). This finding is so robust, many colleges and universities are including an emphasis on evidence-based teaching in their strategic plans. In the IU 2030 plan, one of… Read more »
Supporting Mental Health in the College Classroom
Since the Healthy Minds Network began their population-level survey of post-secondary student mental health, there has been a steady increase in the percentage of college students experiencing depression and/or anxiety. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 41% of college students experienced depression and 34% experienced anxiety. To put this in perspective, if you have 150 students… Read more »
7th Annual CITL Summer Reading List
If you are looking for suggestions for summer reading, you might turn to Google only to discover it seems everyone has a reading list. PBS has a list of America’s 100 most-loved books. Local county libraries have formal summer reading programs for kids and adults. Newspapers and magazines publish summer reading lists. Even celebrities have… Read more »
How many points is this class worth?
As the fall semester begins, instructors are finalizing syllabi, including the grading scale. On the first day of class (i.e. syllabus day) students will eagerly flip through (or scroll the LMS) to locate the grading scale. What will they need to do to earn enough points to get the grade they want? We spend hours… Read more »
6th Annual CITL Summer Reading List
Increasingly, conversations around campus and Zoom have included some sort of reference to fatigue. It seems to be an amorphous discussion that circles the shared feeling rather than an explicit discussion of the current situation and strategies to address the fatigue. In one of these recent conversations with a colleague, he stated that he was… Read more »