With the rise of the omicron COVID variant, there is a possibility that instructors may see a greater number of students absent from class this spring semester. It is important to implement policies and practices that encourage attendance and hold students accountable for work while providing enough flexibility for students to succeed in our courses…… Read more »
Years ago at a conference on education for the ceramic arts, I was introduced to the work of dance choreographer, Liz Lerman, during the keynote lecture. Lerman introduced a process they had developed to facilitate the giving and receiving of feedback. This method known as Critical Response Process (CRP), is defined as, “a facilitated, four-step… Read more »
What single factor makes for an excellent education? The simple answer to this question is human relationships. Learning is not just cognitive; it has social and emotional properties, and evidence shows that with a focus on relationships, achievement gaps can be halved. Students want to feel welcome in the classroom AND evidence shows this will… Read more »
We’ve all been there. You’re a participant in a webinar and just as the facilitator starts to give instructions for an activity your kid starts demanding more cookies, or your dog starts demanding more cookies, or you were in the kitchen getting more cookies. You missed the instructions and now people are headed to breakout… Read more »
This is a guest post from Dr. Marcus Croom, Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, Indiana University School of Education and a CITL DEIJ Faculty Fellow. Happy November! Have we teleported from the first blog to this final blog of our three-part series? Feels like it to me. We’ve covered a lot of ground together,… Read more »
We in the CITL are big proponents of getting mid-semester feedback from students as a way of improving our teaching and their learning. While there is much we can learn from end-of-course evaluations, that information doesn’t offer us opportunities for smaller adjustments that can prove valuable to this semester’s students. And asking your students for… Read more »
