An electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) is a web-based collection of student work which illustrates their learning progress, demonstrates their skills, and allows them to reflect on their learning (Alexiou & Paraskeva, 2010). An ePortfolio enables students to showcase best projects, reflect on their learning, document learning experiences, and prepare for the job market. According to Dr…. Read more »
Teaching Strategies
Flipping Your Class, Part 4: First Exposure Matters? Presenting Materials to Students Online
In the last part of this series, we filled our in-class framework with activities that allow our students to collaborate on the advanced learning objectives to achieve mastery. For this final part, we’ll be designing a pre-class session focusing on our basic learning objectives that students complete on their own. Our primary goal is to… Read more »
2nd Annual CITL Summer Reading List
Last year, we provided suggestions for your summer reading lists from books we’ve read ourselves. This summer we’d like to provide additional suggestions. Over the summer, CITL consultants plan to collectively read Anton Tolman and Janine Kremling’s Why Students Resist Learning (2016). In this book, the authors propose an integrated model to explain why students may… Read more »
A Faculty Mentor Roadmap to Campus AI Orientations
Orientation socializes your new graduate students to the expectations, policies, and resources of your program. Graduate students also learn about their teaching responsibilities within the context of disciplinary and departmental norms. We hope you will incorporate into your teaching orientation plans two campus opportunities for graduate students to develop their teaching. Associate Instructor Workshop on… Read more »
Flipping Your Class, Part 3: What Should I Do? So Much Room for Activities!
In Part 2, we created our learning objectives (LOs) and sorted them based on their level of cognitive complexity. We begin part three by planning the in-class portion where students will have peer and instructor support in achieving the advanced LOs. Whether a person is planning a traditional lecture or a flipped class, it’s important… Read more »
From the Blank Page to Insight: Helping Your Students Take Powerful Class Notes
What do you see your students doing during your class? Are they frantically transcribing your every word? Or is it the opposite, where you wonder if they’re taking any notes at all? This post will discuss how to guide your students to take powerful notes, the kind that lead to rich learning. For students, every… Read more »