Category: Teaching

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…

Lesson Planning Strategies Article. Excerpts below. If we want students to move beyond simply showing up and memorizing course content to deeply understanding and confidently applying it, we need to apply essential principles for absorbing, retaining, and using new information. Drawing from learning science models and my own teaching experience, this advice can elevate your…

Teaching in Higher Education Podcast On Episode 608 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I welcome Sheila Tabanli, faculty member at Rutgers University and creator of a course on effective study strategies for mathematics, to the show. Together, Sheila helps us explore how to overcome the “curse of expertise” and how to foster more inclusive and compassionate teaching…