Sep 29 2016
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Last week the SIPsquad offered some perspective on the management of instructor frustration in the face of challenging student behavior. This week, the SIPsquad offers up some tactical advice that will allow instructors to immediately and positively engage in behavior correction for good outcomes. We are doing our students …
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Sep 22 2016
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Have you ever heard something like, “What degrees do you have?” “I am an A student and I don’t agree with this grade.” “Actually, I recently read ____ and it said ….” Comments like these can result in feelings of frustration for professors. Those feelings can become barriers to …
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Sep 08 2016
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Do you ever find class becomes dominated by a few student voices? Have you struggled to figure out how to maintain those few students’ enthusiastic interest in the class while making space for others to speak up as well? Or there is the other version of student voice – …
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Feb 19 2015
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? We all want to create the ultimate learning environment for our students. What does this look like? It may vary from discipline to discipline, or from lower-division to upper-division classes, but two aspects of a good learning environment are constant: student contribution and student safety. Every student should contribute …
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