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TLT’s Summertime Reading List
Summer is a great time to catch up on reading! When you take a break from your research, why not explore the scholarship of teaching and learning? Here are my current favorite books related to...
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What I Learned from “Make it Stick”
Much of our understanding about how we learn is flawed. The typical advice given to students is single-minded, focused repetition, reflecting the belief that if we expose ourselves to something...
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Small Teaching Tip #16: Structured Discussion Formats
“I’m tired of looking out at a sea of blank faces.” “There’s nothing but crickets when I try to get a discussion going.” “It’s like talking to a brick wall!” How many times have you lamented the...
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Small Teaching Tip #17: Crafting a Learner-Centered Syllabus
Historically, a syllabus has been defined as an outline of the topics to be covered during a course. But in the past twenty years, the functions of our syllabi have expanded greatly. Common functions...
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5 Great Sites to Help You Find Open Educational Resources (OER) for Your...
What is OER? “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium–digital or otherwise–that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open...
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Small Teaching Tip #18: Increasing Students’ Use of Office Hours
Many faculty lament how few students take advantage of office hours. Often, undergraduate students do not perceive office hours to be beneficial unless something has gone wrong, such as a failing...
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Small Teaching Tip #19: Creating a More Engaging and Effective First Day of...
Over the years, I’ve written a few blog posts about using the first day of class more effectively. But since it’s been a while and a new semester is upon us, I thought I’d revisit this topic. So here...
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Small Teaching Tip #20: Integrate Public Speaking into Any Class
The belief that people fear public speaking more than death has become so readily accepted that Jerry Seinfeld’s joke about preferring to be in the coffin than giving the eulogy is now cliché....
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Small Teaching Tip #21: It’s Time for a Syllabus Redesign
If you’re like most faculty, you receive an inordinate number of questions from students that they could have easily answered themselves if they only consulted the syllabus. For years, I’ve pondered...
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Role Play as a Learning Tool
I was inspired by a Faculty Focus article when creating this newsletter. This article spoke about adding role playing activities to your teaching to act as practicum experience but I think you can...
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