Pedagogical Strategies

Mentors, please consider sharing your ideas for pediological strategies with us, so we can share them here with other mentors and faculty. 

Collaborative note-taking for students who have disabilities can benefit all students in a class. An example of how this strategy can be implemented is described below:

Students in a course are divided into teams, and each student within the team has a job. Two students take notes on the lecture and two more formulate multiple-choice questions to post to a discussion thread in the learning-management system. The students provide a rationale of how the questions meet the lesson’s learning objectives, and descriptions of why each answer is either right or wrong. One student is in charge of checking his/her classmate’s work, and another is in charge of managing the team that week. Each team has to complete these duties every other week, and each time around the students’ roles with their team rotates. For additional information on successes and challenges of this strategy, check out the article, For One, for All, on the Inside Higher Ed website.