We recently hosted our AI Orientation on August 21st, where an amazing group of graduate student instructors generously shared their insights. To keep the conversation going beyond that day, I wanted to highlight a particularly valuable takeaway (or “quick tip”) from our colleagues, Alex Tran and Samantha Heiman, who led the workshop, “Engaging and Equitable… Read more »
As we get started with the semester, I wanted to encourage us all to begin thinking of ways to engage our students from the get-go with some fun activities! Group Scavenger Hunt If you put your students in groups at the beginning of the semester, have them get to know each other with a group… Read more »
The newly-published 3rd edition of Classroom Assessment Techniques: Formative Feedback Tools for College and University Teachers includes over 50 Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) you can use to quickly gauge your students’ learning, help them organize course material, and obtain feedback about their learning. One of the simplest and most useful CATs is the Muddiest Point…. Read more »
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 »
Reduce first day jitters for yourself by visiting your assigned classroom in the next couple of weeks. Log into the instructor station, practice projecting on the screen, put on and test the microphone, adjust volume if you plan to show video clips, check the lighting and furniture arrangements in the space, practice circulating around the… Read more »
There’s nothing quite like a field trip to pull you and your students out of the dreaded end-of-semester lull! Changing up your classroom space is a great way to implement the core Universal Design for Learning objectives of engagement, representation, and action & expression. Connecting the “why,” “how,” and “what” of learning in a new… Read more »