Category: Teaching
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Register Now for BCLT August 2025 Events
Course (re)Design Institute (CDI)and Syllabus Workshop Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Pedagogy Matters– Move to Learn: Leveraging brain-body connections to increase academic performance with Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown First Year Writing Seminar (FYWS) Assignment Design Every Semester Needs a Plan Do you want to be more productive and create balance in the different areas of your life? Do you…
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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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Teaching Skills Series Activity Bank
Check out the newest addition to the KP Cross Academy, the Skills Series Activity Bank. This new resource allows educators to enhance their teaching through a collection of inventories, activities and reflections. There are currently 14 Skills Series sets to choose from on topics like Developing Pedagogical Knowledge, Understanding Student Learning, Assessing and Grading, Engaging Students, and Effective Lecturing. Find the…
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May Course Design Institute
May 28, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m The best time to plan a course is at the end of a semester when you are both tired and realistic about what can happen in a semester. This one-day institute is an opportunity for faculty and instructors to start the design of a new course or rethink…
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Annotation and Learning with Remi Kalir
Intentional Teaching Podcast with Remi Kalir Derek Bruff: It’s one thing to pull a book off a shelf, highlight a passage, and make a note in the margin. That’s annotation, and it can be a useful learning tool for an individual. It’s another thing to share your annotations in a way that others can read…