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Mar 5, 2024
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Here's a quick read that offers some teaching and learning strategies that support metacognition in ways that can enhance student learning and success. It also shares a call to action for all university instructors is to intentionally integrate one additional metacognitive activity into their courses. Are you ready to take up the challenge? Check out this blog post: Metacognition – a strategy for success in university teaching & learning.
Feb 12, 2024
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Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning has a book review section called Books Worth Reading with a recently published review of a couple of books that tackle the challenges of reforming grading practices: Off the Mark by Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, and Grading for Growth by David Clark and Robert Talbert. Curious to know more? You can read or listen to the review, Reassessing Assessment.
Jan 29, 2024
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Starting this week, we'll be transitioning into February (where did January go??) with a blog post from the BCcampus newsletter. Instructional colleagues from BCcampus share a wide range of open educational resources and virtual training opportunities. Last week's newsletter had a link to this blog post. Check out Digital Pedagogy Toolbox: Promoting Equity and Inclusivity Through Digital Formative Assessment
Jan 9 2024
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Have you ever wanted to share a one-off blog post without starting a full-fledged blog? Teaching Matters might be a good platform to publish your ideas. Check it out here.
This week they are highlighting the 10 most read blog posts and the most listened-to podcast episodes in 2023. Not surprisingly, there is a lot about ChatGPT, but there are also blogs on kindness and care for our students and each other. Here's the link to Teaching Matters’ Top 10 of 2023.
Jan 8, 2024
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All ready for the next semester? Have you given thought to how you might help your graduate students build their own mentoring constellation? The folks at Elon University have--and they share some ideas in this article, Strategies to Improve Mentees’ Ability to Build Their Own Mentoring Constellations.
Dec 12, 2023
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You might be looking for a podcast that you can listen to on the go or that at least frees you from looking at a screen. This podcast, called 10 minute chats on Generative AI, features short conversations with guests who bring different perspectives to generative AI and education. The most recent episode (Jan McArthur, December 12, 2023) discusses tensions between competitive assessment systems and learning-oriented motivations to use generative AI.
Dec 5, 2023
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There are quite a few colleagues on campus that get Faculty Focus articles sent directly to their email inbox. Here's an example of one circulated this week: Using Visible Thinking Routines in the Writing Process It's easy to subscribe to these Faculty Focus articles, which are quick to read and share ideas that are easy to incorporate into your teaching practice.
Nov 27, 2023
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If you are thinking about an Open Educational Resources (OER) grant application, then this blog post could have some helpful tips -- Free your content! A guide to creating sustainable open licensed media. BTW, the deadline to apply for an OER grant is December 15, 2023. You can find more info about the grant here.
Nov 23, 2023
Here's a series of blog posts about assessment and feedback. It's easy to catch up, starting with this first post that challenges the idea of “it’s always been done that way.” Check them out!
· It’s Always Been Done That Way: Models of Assessment and Feedback
· Perspectives on Assessment and Feedback
· Inevitable Tensions and Some Good News: Models of Assessment and Feedback
· Traditional and Alternative Approaches to Grading: Models of Assessment and Feedback
Oct 30, 2023
For the science educators across campus...We know that reflecting on failure in science courses has many benefits ranging from the development of evaluative and creative capacities of students, improvement in science process skills including research, analysis, and experimental design and implementation as well as promoting resilience, and positive impacts on student wellbeing. Here's something for your teaching toolkit --- Science “Fails”: A Bank of Historical Examples for Learning From Failure in Science
Oct 26, 2023
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We've been checking out the SoTL landscape recently and have come across a few interesting reads. We'll be sharing them in the next few Tea(ching) Breaks. Here's a first one: Experiences with Supporting Teachers with Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at a Research-Intensive University: Lessons Learned
Oct 19, 2023
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We came across this short blog post about incorporating sustainability into a survey course that is designed for students from a variety of programs. The instructor also worked with a student as part of the course redesign process to get initial feedback on changes. Here's a link to Building sustainability into an ecological agriculture course: From general to specific.
Oct 18, 2023
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This Tea(ching) break connects you to a series of personal stories written by neurodivergent researchers navigating academia. Check out the intro to the series, Being Neurodivergent in Academia: Why Sparks of Change is publishing stories from neurodivergent researchers. Two of the stories published so far are Being Neurodivergent in Academia: Nothing wrong with me and Being Neurodivergent in Academia: The meaning of self-acceptance. The series also includes a list of tips, resources, and tools collated by neurodivergent scientists.
Oct 3, 2023
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Looking for resources to help motivate students to study and increase student use of effective study and teaching strategies that are backed by research? Here are six infographics that you can share with your students, and they are Creative Commons licensed. Check out Six Strategies for Effective Learning.
Sep 11, 2023
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You'll need about a half-hour for this tea(ching) break suggestion. It's a podcast that explores how ChatGPT can support student learning. Listen to 80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom
Aug 25, 2023
Many of us are diving into learning about generative artificial intelligence (genAI) as we prepare for the start of the fall semester. The number of blogs and articles around genAI can be overwhelming so the TLC has been checking them out and curating a short list for your consideration. Here are a couple of blog posts to start with. For a post focused on ways to address ChatGPT with students, check out CHATGPT AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS. And here's another on Teaching AI Ethics.
The last two sessions for Let's Talk Teaching are set for Friday, August 25, in-person in the TLC (RL 230) at 11:00 and online at 1:30.
Aug 21, 2023
This tea(ching) break tackles course design! With so many models to choose from, what should instructors think about in deciding what route to take? This post, written by Joel MacDonald who is an instructional designer in the TLC, outlines five models that look at student agency. It draws from a fantastic presentation given by Dr. Andrew Zinck (Music) at the last UPEI Teaching Community Conference. Check it out on the TLC Blog!
Aug 14, 2023
Thinking about ways to promote connection and care in your classes this fall? This brief article, Preparing and Sustaining a Classroom of Connection and Care: Practical Ideas and Activities, shares a few ideas to help you get going. A more in-depth resource developed by Student Affairs and the Teaching and Learning Centre, Promoting Student Well-Being in Learning Environments: A Guide for Instructors, offers ideas to set the tone of your course and build relationships starting from before the course begins, in the first few weeks, and throughout the semester. The guide also has sections that specifically focuses on graduate students too.
Aug 9, 2023
Mentoring, leadership, lab culture, and failure are topics covered in a recent podcast episode of the agile academic, with guest Dr. Jen Heemstra, chair and professor of chemistry at Washington University of St. Louis. Click here to listen to this episode.
Aug 4, 2023
With the unsettling influences of artificial intelligences like ChatGPT on common assignments such as research essays, many of us are taking time this summer to think about how we might adapt our courses this fall. Here's a short article with several considerations...with the promise of a part two at the end of this week. Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1
Aug 3, 2023
With the unsettling influences of artificial intelligences like ChatGPT on common assignments such as research essays, many of us are taking time this summer to think about how we might adapt our courses this fall. Here's a short article with several considerations...with the promise of a part two at the end of this week. Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1
Jun 21, 2023
If you didn't get a chance to attend the STLHE conference downtown last week, here's a blog from one of the 3M National Teaching Fellows that gives you a sense of the wide range of teaching-related sessions that were available. If you were there, Laura shares her insights on sessions that perhaps you weren't able to attend: Reflections from the #STLHESAPES2023 conference: Networking to improve Equity in Higher Education
Jun 9, 2023
The introduction of readily available AI resources provides a catalyst for better assessment practices. Enacting the principles of good assessment becomes even more pressing as we prepare our students to work and live with artificial intelligence. This guide from the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) identifies two sets of recommendations that enhance student development as well as promoting academic integrity. It makes suggestions for: 1) how the principles of assessment design can be enacted in a time of genAI; and 2) how assessment practices can immediately take account of genAI, including ChatGPT. Here's a link to the guide.
Jun 8, 2023
The introduction of readily available AI resources provides a catalyst for better assessment practices. Enacting the principles of good assessment becomes even more pressing as we prepare our students to work and live with artificial intelligence. This guide from the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) identifies two sets of recommendations that enhance student development as well as promoting academic integrity. It makes suggestions for: 1) how the principles of assessment design can be enacted in a time of genAI; and 2) how assessment practices can immediately take account of genAI, including ChatGPT. Here's a link to the guide.
May 22, 2023
We've made it! Convocation week has wrapped up, and we have the rest of the summer semester ahead of us. Many of us have been very focused on supporting students in recent weeks. Now it's time to look ahead. The title and tagline resonated when this article was published a couple of weeks ago. Does it resonate with you?
May 3, 2023
Wrapping up grading for those last student assignments for the semester? Wondering about ways to ensure the feedback you are offering encourages and empowers your students? Here's a blog post that might have a few ideas: Feedback and language choice
May 2, 2023
Thinking about a solo writing retreat after the end of the semester? This article from 2019 shares ideas you might want to consider: How I Retreat and Regroup: A model for starting summer by getting away.
Apr 18, 2023
Here's a newly published resource on oral assessments that arrived yesterday. This podcast episode from Limed: Teaching with a Twist also focuses on oral assessments. Here's a link to the podcast: Demonstrating Knowledge Using Oral Assessments.
Wondering if an oral examination might be an option to consider as we head toward the end of the semester? This blog from Assessment in Higher Education outlines some considerations to help you decide. Check out Oral Examinations.
Mar 6, 2023
Setting aside some time for a think-pair-share in class can be a terrific and easy way to engage students. This article from Faculty Focus shares an adaptation to this well-known strategy, which focuses on centering equity and helping students build interpersonal skills. Check it out here in Ready for an In-class Sharing Reset? Try the “TRI” Method!
Feb 27, 2023
Here's a Tea(ching) Break suggestion for week two of the Canada Game break. This blog takes a look at a recent meta-analysis of studies using a flipped teaching approach. This six-minute read shares some critiques of the original study and proposes a specific model for flipped learning. What do you think of the ideas discussed in Analyzing a meta-analysis of flipped learning?
Feb 15, 2023
Thinking about assessment? There is assessment as learning, assessment for learning, and assessment of learning. Find out about seven principles of good learning, teaching and assessment, why they are important, and how to apply them by reading Jisc’s new principles of good assessment and feedback.
Jan 25, 2023
Are you looking for ideas that offer students choice (a key principle for UDL and trauma-informed educational approaches) that don't require you to curate a whole range of materials? A student-led choice board might be an option to try. Read more about setting up a choice board and how they can be used for different purposes in this blog, Strategies to Make Choice Boards More Efficient.
Jan 19, 2023
Have you heard the buzz around ChatGPT and been thinking about how this and other artificial intelligence apps might become a tool in your teaching and learning toolbox? Here is a resource sheet with ideas that you can use to help students ethically demonstrate their knowledge and learning, which can take advantage of the affordances of AI apps. Check out Teaching and Learning with Artificial Intelligence Apps.
If you are interested in learning more, join us for a Lunch and Learn session on artificial intelligence in university teaching and learning on Friday, January 27, at 12:00 pm in the UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre. Please note that this is a new date for this event.
Jan 12, 2023
It's January 2023, and we're starting off a new semester of Tea(ching) Breaks with a blog post about active learning classrooms. We have a few of these spaces on campus. If you aren't sure what they look like or how they can be used to enhance student learning, this blog has photos and descriptions to help you out. Read What factors help active learning classrooms succeed?
Dec 16, 2022
A final Tea(ching) Break for the week. This one is a journal article that is informing some of the work of the Teaching and Learning Centre. You can read the article or download the mp3 to listen on the go. Conversations as a source of professional learning: exploring the dynamics of camaraderie and common ground amongst university teachers
Dec 15, 2022
Another Tea(ching) Break--this one about taking time to pause. A little warning: this article starts out with mention of chainsaws and woodchippers! Something many of us recall vividly. Take some time and give yourself some grace to pause today in the busyness of exam marking and other end-of-semester work. Read Don’t Give Yourself Any Space
Dec 14, 2022
We promised a few extra Tea(ching) Breaks this week to help folks make it through marking exams and final projects. Today's Tea(ching) Break is from Alexandra Mihai who spoke at our Teaching Community Conference in May. In her most recent blog post, she ponders the question, "How (much) do you support your students?" To read what Dr. Mihai has to say in regard to questions like What is a good balance between scaffolding and independent learning? What are sustainable ways to support students that go beyond what is often seen as “hand-holding”? check out the blog.
Dec 12, 2022
This week we'll have a few extra Tea(ching) Breaks as a quick change of pace as many of us focus on marking final exams, projects, and essays.
Here's a provocative blog with a different take on artificial intelligence. It's a quick six-minute read: New AI tools that can write student essays require educators to rethink teaching and assessment.
Dec 7, 2022
Have you ever thought about renewable assignments that harness the academic work that students do to create something that can be revised and built on by others? A recent article in University Affairs about non-disposable assignments (NDAs for short) highlights their benefits. If you are interested in learning more about this type of Open Education practice, let us know at the UPEI Teaching and Learning Centre. We would be happy to have a workshop or Lunch and Learn session about them.
Dec 5, 2022
Are you thinking about a difficult conversation you need to have with a student about an assignment? Here's a guide with suggestions on how to talk to a student who may have paid someone to do their work: Educator Resource: How to Lead a Discovery Interview About Contract Cheating
Nov 17, 2022
Have you been trying to get students more engaged in your classes but not seeing much change? For ideas about how formative assessment can help you gain insight into the learning experience and allow you to integrate student voices into your course (re)design, check out Harnessing the Student Voice: Why Student-centered Teaching and Learning Starts with Formative Assessment.
Nov 15, 2022
Thinking about ways to encourage students to apply feedback that they've received on an assignment? Here's a Faculty Focus article with ideas that support student development of these skills and, hopefully, help them end up with a better grade in your course. Read “They Don’t Read My Feedback!” Strategies to Encourage Reception and Application of Course Feedback.
Oct 28, 2022
If you knew something would have a tremendous impact on your students, would you do it? Learn more about a research team's work exploring educators' motivation to implement active learning strategies and the impact of faculty learning communities in this blog post from the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Check out Instructor Perception of Incorporating Active Learning
Oct 25, 2022
Here's another podcast. This episode talks about alternative assessment and how to use technology in creative ways to assess student learning. If you’re looking for new ways to engage students and integrate more creative and authentic assessments into your courses, then this is the episode for you! Episode 126: Alternative Assessment: Creative Ways to Use Technology to Engage Students and Assess Learning
Oct 19, 2022
The panelists in this podcast episode of "Limed: Teaching with a Twist" discuss how student engagement may be changing and how instructors might adapt and help reinvigorate their learners. Check out Rethinking Student Engagement, Post-COVID.
Oct 13, 2022
Trying to find the right strategy to help students get the most learning from the readings in your courses? This blog post with helpful tips to share with students that can help them learn might be the answer. Written by a student for students. Check out How to Read for a Course
Oct 12, 2022
Each year, the new 3M Teaching Fellow cohort takes on a collective project, combining their experience and passion for advancing higher learning. "Shifting Conversations: Dialogue and Change in Higher Education" is the 3M Teaching Fellow 2021 cohort collective project. Take advantage of the change of pace during this week to check out episodes on topics that range from decolonizing education to academic ableism, medical bias, STEM literacy, and more. Listen to Shifting Conversations: Dialogue and Change in Higher Education.
Sep 22, 2022
This week's Tea(ching) Break is from the column, Bad Ideas about Teaching, by Rebecca Weaver. In this column, you can read about how she links learning how to do a flip turn in swimming with better ideas for teaching! Read Everyone is the Same!
Sep 13, 2022
Academic integrity is an important aspect of university life. If you are looking for some resources to use in your classes, this webpage has a few options that you may want to consider: The improvement of student learning by linking inclusion/accessibility and academic integrity
Sep 7, 2022
You may be familiar with SoTL or the scholarship of teaching and learning, but do you know about SoTLA? This is scholarship that includes and promotes evidence- and research-supported assessment practices. Christopher Charles Deneen explains SoTLA in his article published this past June in The Conversation.
Aug 26, 2022
As the fall semester approaches, you may have so many questions about time: How can I figure out how much time I can dedicate to this course? How much time should students need to spend on this assignment? And on and on.. This blog post addresses many of these questions and offers resources that might help you resolve some of the issues. It’s about time…
Aug 17, 2022
Are you working on your course syllabus and wondering how you might encourage students to read all of the helpful information in it? Consider inviting the class to annotate it! Not sure where to start? This article by Remi Kalir shares ideas on how to approach annotating a syllabus. Check out Annotate Your Syllabus 4.0.
Jun 16, 2022
A recent conversation with colleagues about ways to help students offer peer feedback coupled with a social media post the next morning are part of the background for this Tea(ching) Break. Developing Students' Evaluative Judgements: Pedagogical Activities and Practices is a blog post reviewing a seminar from the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) that focused on recent research studies examining evaluative judgement. If the blog post catches your attention and you want more, there is a link to the CRADLE Seminar at the end of the blog.
Jun 2, 2022
It can be so nice to go out for a walk on a sunny day in June and listen to a teaching and learning podcast. There are lots to choose from. Here are a few favourites from the Teaching and Learning Centre and the E-Learning Team.
Podcasts for Instructors on the Go
May 30, 2022
Did you enjoy Alexandra Mihai's keynote at the Teaching Community Conference and are looking for more? Maybe you're reflecting on the teaching wins and challenges of the past year. Or perhaps you are thinking about summer plans to finally get around to re-designing "that" course. This blog post, entitled "Innovation in Higher Education: What, Wait!," might be something you want to check out.
The Teaching and Learning Centre has recordings from many sessions from the past couple of years that are available by clicking on the past events in the Teaching and Learning Events calendar Scroll through the list and enjoy an extra Tea(ching) Break this week as you (re-)visit some of them.
May 27, 2022
Did you enjoy Alexandra Mihai's keynote at the Teaching Community Conference and are looking for more? Maybe you're reflecting on the teaching wins and challenges of the past year. Or perhaps you are thinking about summer plans to finally get around to re-designing "that" course. This blog post, entitled "Innovation in Higher Education: What, Wait!," might be something you want to check out.
The Teaching and Learning Centre has recordings from many sessions from the past couple of years that are available by clicking on the past events in the Teaching and Learning Events calendar Scroll through the list and enjoy an extra Tea(ching) Break this week as you (re-)visit some of them.
May 5, 2022
Thinking about those group projects from the winter semester...those that went well with lots of productive learning as well as those where things didn't turn out as anticipated? Curious about best practices, the evidence for the impact of collaborative projects and recommendations for how to implement them well? Read on to learn about a SoTL research project that is examining student learning from collaborative group projects: SoTL Showcase: Making Collaborative Projects Work
Apr 20, 2022
Conference season is around the corner, including the UPEI Teaching Community Conference on May 3 (note the shameless plug for our own event!). Ensure that you have a stellar presentation by using the pointers in this article: Scientific Presenting: Using Evidence-Based Classroom Practices to Deliver Effective Conference Presentations.
Apr 13, 2022
'Tis the season for grading, and this blog post shares some thoughts on feedback and second chances. But how to manage without swamping yourself with additional work? The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty offers a few ideas.
Apr 7, 2022
Curious about using alternative grading in a Modern Algebra class? Here's one instructor's reflection on how it's going. It takes about nine minutes to read: Ungrading after 11 weeks.
Mar 30, 2022
This week's Tea(ching) Break is a webpage from Brock University's Centre for Pedagogical Innovation on the Role of Reflection. If you are asking your students to reflect on their learning, you may find a framework or prompt among the various reflection resources on this page to support them.
Mar 11, 2022
As the end of the semester approaches and we focus on exam preparation, you might be thinking about various formats. This digest provides a summary of a recent research study examining time-limited tests.
Mar 7, 2022
We have a visual tea(ching) break this week with some points about feedback as we move toward the end of the semester.
Feb 18, 2022
We're returning to in-person teaching soon, but you have a few students who can't come to campus and you're wondering about handling small group activities with students online and in the classroom. In Distinct but interrelated communities: An approach to hybrid teaching, you'll find a case study that describes how one instructor has handled this situation. Maybe it will spark ideas for you.
Feb 10, 2022
Want to listen to a podcast this week? Here's a great option that covers current issues of educational ethics and integrity, spotlighting pressing topics like emergency remote teaching, artificial intelligence, and integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton is an expert on issues associated with academic integrity. This podcast episode can be found here.
Feb 4, 2022
How effective are your questions? Do you worry about a sea of blank screens in online contexts or wonder about ways to check students are understanding, especially when teaching online? Click here to listen or read about some practical advice to address these and other "questioning" concerns.
Jan 26, 2022
This report offers insights into changes to teaching and assessment practices in response to the pandemic with case studies drawing from 19 different disciplines at three universities, identifies lessons learned and new practices, and presents four broad principles with implications for university communities to consider.
Matthews, K. E., Lawrie, G., Mårtensson, K., Roxå, T., Bovill, C., & McLaughlin, C. (2021). Learning together in a global pandemic: practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times. University of Queensland. Direct link
Jan 14, 2022
This blog post by Dr. Tony Bates, published January 8, 2022, shares an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of lecture-based online learning that he is working on for the third edition of his open book, Teaching in a Digital Age.
Jan 11, 2022
As we start a new semester and with it new courses, you may be thinking about ways to motivate your students to do pre-class work: you know, reading and homework. This article, published last week, shares several ideas that could work for you and your students this semester. Check out How to Motivate Students to Actually Do Homework and Reading for considerations on how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators can spur us on to success.
Jan 7, 2022
Today's Tea(ching) Break is an easy to read infographic about online course quality indicators. If you want more details and are interested in reading the paper, here it is. A Cross-Institutional Study of Instructional Characteristics and Student Outcomes: Are Quality Indicators of Online Courses Able to Predict Student Success?
Jan 6, 2022
If you are working on a syllabus and want a quicker way to find class meeting dates than scanning through a calendar, check out this useful tool that can help save some time. You have to watch for holidays and break week though!
Jan 4, 2022
Consider using elements of your course design to support your students during the soon-to-start Winter semester. This summary resource compiled by the University of Calgary's Teaching and Learning Subcommittee of the Campus Mental Health Strategy uses mental health and wellness as a framework for teaching and learning. To read more about the framework click here
Dec 17, 2021
Research shows that students who think and act like consumers have worse academic outcomes. This article by Louise Taylor Bunce published in yesterday's The Campus shares practical steps to help build students’ identities as learners rather than as consumers of education. The peer-reviewed article from this research study was discussed this past summer by the SoTL Atlantic Journal Club. Curious and interested in more details about this study? Here a link to the journal article https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1127908 Want more info about SoTL Atlantic? Email TLC@upei.ca
Dec 13, 2021
Do you think of bowling when you are reflecting on your teaching? No? Well check out this 3 minute video from Shelley Moore, a PhD student at UBC, that brilliantly draws together inclusive teaching and bowling. Enjoy!
Dec 3, 2021
This week's Tea(ching) Break is from the higher education podcast Tea for Teaching. This podcast which started in 2017, covers a wide range of topics relevant to university teaching. In this episode the hosts reflect on their experiences teaching in the Fall 2021 semester and consider lessons learned as they prepare their Winter 2022 classes. You can access the Tea for Teaching podcast here
Dec 2, 2021
This week's Tea(ching) Break is from the higher education podcast Tea for Teaching. This podcast which started in 2017, covers a wide range of topics relevant to university teaching. In this episode the hosts reflect on their experiences teaching in the Fall 2021 semester and consider lessons learned as they prepare their Winter 2022 classes. You can access the Tea for Teaching podcast here
Nov 19, 2021
This week's Tea(ching) Break focuses on assessment from two different perspectives. The first blog is a practical one for those preparing online assessments. You might even be thinking about this right now as we approach the end of semester and exam preparations. Check out the blog post How to Write an UnGoogleable Exam Question. The second blog discusses challenges in reforming assessment practices; two examples being issues of student agency and equity in assessment. Curriculum and assessment: it takes the two to tango considers some of our assumptions as higher education educators and institutions.
Nov 12, 2021
This week's Tea(ching) Break is a blog that is part of a special collection celebrating the centenary of Paulo Freire’s birth. The author of Classrooms as a Space for Imagination and Hope uses critical pedagogy as an entry point to explore how to create educational spaces in higher education that enable students to make meaningful contributions to research and society, and how traditional student teacher positions can be challenged through partnership. By re-considering the relationship between undergraduate teaching and academic research, he wants to re-establish the university as a place for collaboration between students and academics with the common purpose to co-create knowledge and meaning.
Nov 5, 2021
Looking for digital tools to engage with students while you are in class? Here's a blog post, Backchannel in Education with a variety of ideas and a handy guide to Using a Backchannel in In-Person Synchronous Classes.
Oct 28, 2021
Thinking about ways to keep your students motivated at this point in the semester? This blog post has some ideas for you and your students! 10 ways to keep your students motivated