Category: Featured
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Improving the feedback given to students
Four big problems about feedback from education research by Sarah Hanusch, March 24, 2025 Full article linked here. Excerpts below. Feedback is one of the cornerstones of alternative grading systems, as we want our students to learn from feedback and apply it to other assignments, assessments or revisions. However, not all feedback is created equally, and…
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Podcast on Joy Centered Pedagogy
On Episode 566 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I had the pleasure of speaking with Eileen Camfield about her new book, Joy Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching and Learning for All. Eileen invited us to reflect on what it means to center joy in teaching—how curiosity, connection, and creativity can truly transform the experience for both…
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Elaborative Interrogation as a Reading Comprehension Strategy
Edu-Snippets JIM HEWITT AND NIDHI SACHDEVAMAR 9 How can elaborative interrogation be used to improve reading comprehension? Elaborative interrogation is an active learning strategy in which learners are prompted to answer “how” and “why” questions about material they are studying. For example, a student studying Hamlet might ask themselves, “Why does Hamlet contemplate the nature of existence?”…
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Mid-Semester Student Feedback Questionnaire Ideas (Bowdoin instructors and others)
March and our upcoming spring break offer an opportunity to pause and think about what is working in our classes, and what small adjustments might support student learning for the months ahead. Seeking feedback from students, LAs, colleagues, and the BCLT can provide multiple sources of information to inspire our teaching practices between now and the end…
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Teaching: Small ways to spark joy in your teaching
by Beckie Supiano Chronicle of Higher Education Teaching Newsletter Infusing delight Sometimes, professors operate as if having fun and feeling joy are at odds with doing serious, rigorous work. But that’s a false dichotomy, says Eugene Korsunskiy, an associate professor who teaches human-centered design courses in the engineering school at Dartmouth College. A sense of…