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Teaching and Learning Tips
A Baker's Dozen
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Learn the
names of your students as quickly as possible -- teaching is about forming
relationships.
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Continually
invite students to visit with you outside of class during office hours, lunch
or any other times you are available. Active learning includes interaction
with faculty outside of class.
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Give a test or
quiz very early in the semester-first or second week. The first test or quiz
sets the level of expectation for the students. It is one of the most powerful
messages a teacher send to students.
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Use many
different kinds of assessments during the semester. Allow the students to
show you what they know through their best delivery system.
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Give regular
and specific feedback and require that something meaningful be
done with the feedback.
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Within each
day’s lesson vary your presentation method to keep students attention and
interest. Have a beginning—middle and end to your class.
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Give students
time to answer your questions. Use the ten second rule -- average wait time in college is
one second.
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Use as many
authentic/real world examples as possible in your teaching. Analogy, metaphor
and example are our most powerful teaching tools.
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Use informal
assessment activities on a regular basis.
Teaching in the absence of
learning is just talking. ~T. Angelo
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Most students
will rise to the expectations of the course-challenge students within their
developmental level(s). Creating the appropriate level of cognitive dissonance
is the art of teaching.
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Put in place
structures that promote student learning, i.e., attendance, late for class and late
work policies, self assessment tools, interim due dates, literacy expectations.
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Model the
outcomes you want the students to produce. This includes modeling thinking.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. ~Vincent
Ruggerio
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