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Teaching Tips
How inclusive is your syllabus? An inclusive syllabus minimizes unnecessary physical demands and maximizes accessibility, flexibility, and explicitness, e.g., it is available in multiple media, and explains words, expectations and directions. For more information, see the video on the CELTUA site about Crafting Inclusive Syllabi and our webpages on Inclusive Classrooms
In a recent year, 18% of Miami's main campus students were first generation college students, whereas 50% of regional campus students were. More demographic information can be found on the CELTUA website in Assessment Brief #28. Please also see our video on Getting Started in Teaching at Miami, Oxford: Your Students, the Campus Culture, and the Resources.
How do students learn? "The single most important variable in promoting long-term retention and transfer is 'that learners need to generate responses, with minimal cues, repeatedly over time with varied applications.'" PDF article
MU's Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 19, Number 1 (2008) has more on learning.
MU's Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 19, Number 1 (2008) has more on learning.
A table of specifications can help you plan your exam to provide balanced coverage of topics as well as appropriate levels of cognitive challenge. Click here to see more. See our Journal on Excellence in College Teaching Volume 10, Number 3 (1999) for an article on study groups and exams.
Two suggestions for reducing plagiarism: Require students to hand in process steps, such as an annotated bibliography and rough draft; and require that some sources be recently published. Click here to see more See also the CELTUA video on Academic Integrity.
Ever wonder what your students did or didn?t get out of your lecture? What?s behind those blank faces? Classroom Assessment Techniques can help with that. Click here for more The CELTUA website also has a video on "Using Clickers in the Classroom."
What should the goals of a college education be? AAC&U's answer: Knowledge of human culture and the natural world, Intellectual and practical skills, and individual and social responsibility. http://www.aacu.org/leap/pdfs/LEAP_Report_FINAL.pdf CELTUA can help you plan learning goals for your students.
Research suggests that student evaluations of teaching are a useful element of a comprehensive faculty evaluation system. click here for more The CELTUA library has more on faculty evaluation.
Planning for next semester? Think about aligning assignments with course goals. See our Journal on Excellence in College Teaching Volume 20, Number 2 (2009) for an article on "backward planning".