Teaching Ideas & Tips
Teaching Ideas & Tips
Teaching Ideas & Tips
Under each of these categories are articles covering ideas & tips to improve in teaching and learning:
Preparing a Course
- Preparing A Course
- Tips for Faculty Teaching for the First Time
- Course Workload Estimator
- The UDL Guidelines - "The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn."
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) from Office of Accessibility Services
Copyright
Checklist For Conducting A Fair Use Analysis Before Using Copyrighted Materials from Cornell Univeersity Libraries- this will help you to determine if you can use copyrighted materials in your course within the limits of fair use under U.S. copyright law (Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act).
Designing a Syllabus
- Rowan Syllabus Policy - check for "must have" syllabus content
- Rowan Recommended Syllabus Statements
- Rowan Generative Artificial Intelligence suggestions
- Rowan Faculty Center Syllabus Check List - an extensive list of suggestions
- Suggestions for Preparing an Effective Syllabus
- Accessible Syllabus - covers images, text, rhetoric, and policy
Promoting Academic Integrity
Professors have an important responsibility to build a culture of trust and honesty in the classroom to support academic integrity. Learn what you need to know to create this environment, about violations, how to prevent violations, and what to do if you suspect a student of a violation. The articles and teaching tools on the Academic Integrity Teaching Resources page will help your students gain the skills they’ll need in school and in the workplace.
Beginning the Semester
- Building Trust with Students—Even Before Class Starts: How to Promote Psychological Safety in Your Classroom
- How Student Learning Can Begin before the First Day of Class
- 101 Things You Can Do in the First Three Weeks of Class
- Learning Students' Names - 23 helpful methods
- Engaging Students on the First Day and Every Day: 7 Strategies for Connecting in the Classroom
- First Day of Class Activity: The Interest Inventory
- Connecting With Your Class - 10 steps to start connecting with your classes on the first day
- First Day of Class
- Establishing Ground Rules
- Icebreakers
- Icebreakers That Rock
- Scavenger Hunts for Encouraging Students to Read and Process the Syllabus
Holding Office Hours
Communicating in the Classroom
- Don’t Look at Me in That Tone of Voice – 7 Tips for Better Communication
- The 7 Rules Of Handling Difficult Students
- 9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk
- Students Place a Premium on Faculty Who Show They Care
- Making Better PowerPoint Presentations
- Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send
- Pecha Kucha, an alternative format for presentations
Using Discussions
Engaging and Interactive Classrooms
- The K. Patricia Cross Academy Videos - provides 50 short videos on various teaching techniques that are practical to use and address many dimensions of learning.
- Increasing Student Motivation & Participation
- Project Zero's Thinking Routine Toolbox - A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking.
- An Activity That Promotes Engagement with Required Readings, Even in Large Classes
- Increasing Student Participation
- 50 Alternatives to Lecture
- Teaching With Your Mouth Shut
- What is Interactive Lecture?
- 289 Interactive Techniques - great pdf to save when you want something new
- Problem-Based Learning
Using Group Activities
Conferencing using Video
Knowing Your Students
- Supporting Transgender Students in the Classroom
- When to Tell Your Rowan Students about Disability Resources - helpful infographic from Academic Success. Some students qualitfy for temporary accommodations.
- Three Statistics that Will Change the Way You Think about Generation Z
- 5 Things to Say to Students Suffering from Anxiety
- Research Highlights How Easily, Readily Students Fabricate Excuses
- How to Teach Gen Z Students
- The First Day Of A New Semester...as Told by an Extremely Anxious Student
Managing Your Classroom
- The Beginning and End of Class
- The Five Minutes BEFORE Class Begins
- Small Changes in Teaching: The Minutes Before Class -
- Encouraging students to read before class...is it hopeless?
- Teaching a Diverse Student Body
- Diversity & Inclusive Teaching
- The 5 Second Solution for a Talkative Class
- Emergency Guide for Rowan Faculty and Staff: Helping Students in Difficulty - Counseling & Psychological Services (CPS) have developed this informational guide to assist faculty, staff, and the university community when dealing with troubled and/or troubling students.
- Emergency Preparedness Quick Reference Guide for Rowan Faculty & Staff (pdf)
- Creating a climate for learning: Five steps
- Small Changes in Teaching: Last 5 Minutes of Class
- Eight seconds of silence that will transform your teaching (podcast)
Grading Strategies
- Methods for Assessing Group Work
- Practical Tips for Minimizing Cheating During Exams
- Best Practices for Designing and Grading Exams
- How to Escape Grading Jail
- Grading Papers: How to Increase Your Efficiency
- Grading Dilemma: Should We Round Up?
- When Grading Less Is More
- 8 Tips to Make Grading More Efficient
- Grading Faster And Smarter
Designing Grading Rubrics
- Using Rubrics - This article covers: 1) Why use rubrics? 2) How can you develop a rubric? 3) How can you incorporate rubrics in a course? 4) Online Rubric Resources
- Rubric for Assessing Student Participation
- Grading Class Discussion
- QuickRubric - a tool to help create rubrics
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Getting Feedback on Your Teaching
- Rowan Mid Semester Focus - The MSF on teaching and learning is a mid-semester evaluation technique that provides instructors with rich and meaningful feedback from their students regarding the learning environment in a course. The process is entirely voluntary and data confidential. This process is conducted by members of the Faculty Center MSF team.
- Conducting a Mid-Semester Check-In
- How to Read a Student Evaluation
- Avoiding Bad Teaching Evaluations: Tricks of the Trade
- Student Evaluations of Teaching
- 5 Strategies to Manage the Hurt of Student Evaluations
Assessing Your Teaching
Managing Time
Supporting Students
- Online Discussion Tips for Students - This PDF provides really effective discussion strategies for students to improve online discussions.
- 9 Awesome Study Tips for College Students
- AcademicTips.org - resource for students filled with college study tips, tricks, skills and guides to help them manage their time, take better notes, study more effectively, improve memory, take tests, and handle the stresses of college life.
- Three Tips on How to Help Your Students Study Online Effectively with a Smartphone
- How Faculty can Support Student Mental Health