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 »
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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 »
Turning Course Evaluations Inside Out
April in Bloomington is generally associated with daffodils, spring weather (excluding this year), morel mushrooms, Little 500, and course evaluations. Saying any combination of the words “end of semester course evaluation” to a faculty member tends to elicit an emotional response. Reading course evaluations can feel much like Pixar’s (2015) movie Inside Out. Depending on… Read more »
Intentional Teaching is Better Teaching
In the second installment of our SoTL spotlight series, J Duncan (Senior Lecturer, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering [SICE]) shares his path to becoming a SoTL researcher. J first became introduced to SoTL through a professional development collegium on teaching and learning offered by SICE in the early 2000s. Now, J spends most of… Read more »
Everybody Does It, but Nobody Talks about It
In the last SoTL blog post, we rolled out the new dynamic SoTL database. This database is one way that the SoTL program is trying to assist you in connecting with other faculty members engaged in SoTL work on the IUB campus. In this post, I am excited to introduce a second project we have… Read more »