Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Many of us likely remember our college orientation as a day or two spent listening to college staff explain financial aid, campus policies and how to get involved and register for classes. Or maybe a week spent moving into the residence halls, meeting our new roommate, making friends and …
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Apr 28 2016
SIP 3.14 Office Hours
Thirsty for Strong Instructional Practice? Providing individualized attention to students in “real time” (synchronously) is an important aspect of university teaching, and meeting with students face to face (F2F) is a time-honored and institutionalized way of making this happen. Yet, traditional “office hours,” in which a professor announces times in which students may drop in …
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Mar 19 2015
SIP 1.9: Beyond the Lecture
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Many of us teach college as we were taught, through lecture. Although this method has its merits, research shows that students retain more from a class when they are active participants in the learning process (see triangle chart). Take a SIP of this: Beyond the Lecture Students who are …
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