Category: Teaching

Recommendations from the Eberly Center at Carnegie Mellon University Excerpts below What are best practices for designing group projects? What is true for individual assignments holds true for group assignments: it is important to clearly articulate your objectives, explicitly define the task, clarify your expectations, model high-quality work, and communicate performance criteria. But group work…

Teaching in Higher Education Podcast with Bonni Stachowiak On Episode 611, I welcome Danny Mann, Executive Director of the University of California Irvine’s Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, to Teaching in Higher Ed. Danny brings his experience as an educational developer, a passion for fostering peace, joy, and community in higher education, and expertise in…

This Week in Student Success: Misunderstanding choice by Glenda Morgan View full article here and excerpts below A while back, I wrote about a Tyton Partners report that seemed to point to a fairly straightforward problem: a mismatch between the kinds of support institutions provide and the kinds of support students say they want. The implicit story…

Access full article here or see excerpts below. View examples from Bowdoin Professors on Canvas here. “Implementing differentiation doesn’t mean creating entirely separate lessons for each student. Instead, think of it as providing multiple entry points to the same content.” Differentiated instruction in higher education acknowledges that our students come to us with varying backgrounds, goals,…

October and our upcoming fall 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…