Category: Teaching
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Teaching Skills Library
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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…
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Effective Strategies for Sustaining Student Attention during PowerPoint Lectures
by Jacob Hoekstra, Feb 3, 2025 See full article here at Faculty Focus or excerpts below. Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called “gateway between information and learning” and is compared to…
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Podcast: Trust Moves in the Classroom with Peter Felten, Rachel Forsyth, and Kath Sutherland
How can instructors build trust, community, and a sense of belonging with their students to ultimately improve student learning? In today’s episode, we tackle this question with Peter Felten, Rachel Forsyth, and Kath Sutherland, authors of the two recent articles, “Building Trust in the Classroom: A Conceptual Model for Teachers, Scholars, and Academic Developers in Higher Education” and “Expressions of…
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Accessibility Tips and 2-Day Accessibility Workshop
Universal Design for Learning Accessibility Suggestions for Teaching December 2024 Presentation by Tina Chong, Lesley Levy, Keona Ervin Seven Accessibility Suggestions for Teaching. Accessibility Suggestions for Teaching Hand out.docx Free 2-day Virtual Workshop on Accessibility! Feb 20 & 21 https://teachaccess.org/student-programs Whether you’re new to accessibility or looking to deepen your understanding, this workshop will empower…