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 »
Entries by Shannon Sipes
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 »
Successful Collaborative Learning
Collaborative learning is a student-centered approach where students actively engage with both the material and other students in a meaningful way. When engaging in collaborative learning exercises rather than individual learning, students experience increases in achievement, retention of material, problem solving ability, motivation, time on task, positive attitudes toward subject matter, and positive peer relationships…. Read more »