Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? With growing interest in taking inventory of our finances, apps and daily steps and reducing clutter in our closets, social-media feeds and social lives, we regularly take stock of what works and what doesn’t in our lives. We look to New Year’s Eve, birthdays or some marker of time …
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May 02 2019
SIP 9.14 Including the Student Voice in Pedagogical Decisions
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? We are all here to help students learn, but have you ever thought to ask students how they learn best? When we work to include the student voice in pedagogical decisions, it is a win-win; they know we care about their learning, and they help make the class better …
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Apr 25 2019
SIP 9.13 Self-Directed Learning
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? The Partnership for 21st-Century Skills, a national advocacy organization that encourages schools, districts and states to infuse technology into education, lists Self-Directed Learning as one of the life and career skills necessary to prepare students for postsecondary education and the workforce. What is Self-Directed Learning? According to Malcolm Knowles, …
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Apr 18 2019
SIP 9.12 Prompting for Transfer
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Have you ever watched students struggle to do something you know they should have learned to do in a previous class? Perhaps your students seem unable to write thesis statements for their research papers, but you know they must have learned how to do that in their first-year writing …
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Apr 11 2019
SIP 9.11 Creating a Human Component in Online Learning
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? If you spend any amount of time online, you’ve surely seen the common CAPTCHA phrase, “I’m not a robot” with a check box below confirming your humanity. But how about in our online classes? Are we robots or are we humans? Do students know there is an actual flesh-and-blood …
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Apr 04 2019
SIP 9.10 Avoiding Burnout
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Fresh off of Spring Break, you’d think everyone on campus would be well-rested and energized, but the dark circles under many eyes indicates that a lot of us didn’t find our breaks rejuvenating. Did you spend your break catching up on grading, responding to month-old emails and trying …
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Mar 25 2019
SIP 9.9 Advising Undeclared Students
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? As faculty, we tend to know our academic departments inside and out. Ask us a question about our curriculum, the progression of courses in the major or important milestones along the way to the degree, and we are immediately ready with the answer. The students who ask us …
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Mar 14 2019
SIP 9.8 Classroom and Career Connections
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? As an institutional priority, career development generally ebbs and flows between being core to the student experience to an auxiliary service that students access just before graduation. While polishing a resume and creating a compelling cover letter will certainly remain an important part of the job search and, therefore, …
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Mar 07 2019
SIP 9.7 The 30-Second Deep Breathe
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? It started with an 8 am class. On a Monday. Following an icy, congested drive to campus and a classroom walk-run Hollywood style: cape-flying coat, computer bag slapping legs, mug sloshing coffee down sleeves. Out of breath, hand on the classroom door knob, lungs gulped an inhale and, involuntarily, …
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Feb 22 2019
SIP 9.6 Supporting Anxious Students
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Imagine this: You’re in the middle of presenting complex material to your upper-division class, when you’re suddenly distracted by a student’s rude behavior. She’s shifting around in her seat, not taking any notes, and whispering to the students around her. Then you notice another student, totally disengaged, playing with …
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