To promote more productive and respectful discussions, try using guidelines for interactions. Guidelines are useful in classes, at conferences and perhaps even within your department. In addition, guidelines may help incorporate …
Daniel Rittschof gets feedback on his course from his students weekly, so he can make adjustments throughout the course. How?
How do you teach your increasingly diverse students? This post contains links to many ideas and resources for inclusion at Duke.
Think-pair-share is one of my favorite active learning activities. It is easy, quick and can give you a good idea of what your students are thinking. As an instructor, you …
Our paper is out! “Cooperative learning in organic chemistry increases student assessment of learning gains in key transferable skills” by Dorian A. Canelas, Jennifer L. Hill and Andrea Novicki (me!) …
After you grade exams and hand them back, is learning over? When an exam is returned to students, they may look at their score and calculate their potential final grade in the …
Students in Duke’s single variable calculus courses now have a site with additional, curated resources tied to the course content to help them learn. Emily Braley (Assistant Professor of the …
What to ask your students and what to do with their responses Join us for lunch and a workshop to discuss improving your course by gathering feedback from your students. …
Transform your students on your first day of class by welcoming them.
Cooperative group work helps students learn, but some question “what about the introverts?” This post describes 5 activities and 6 characteristics of group activities that help everyone learn.
