Teaching Strategy Tip #5

Student Self-Evaluation of Discussion Participation

  • Distribute these questions to participants and have them complete these. Discuss with participants whether you as the instructor will see the studentsā€™ responses. The questionnaires are to be completed anonymously.
  • What ideas, questions or information did I contribute to the discussion today?
  • How did I try to encourage another student to speak today?
  • What did I learn from the discussion today? (New information, a new understanding of something already covered, an idea to follow up after the discussion, etc.)
  • How did I make connections between what different people were saying today?

Source:Ā http://fc.short.cm/StudentSelfEvaluation

Teaching Strategy Tip #13

Demonstrate the organizational structure of the course*

Strategy: Provide students with the organizational structure of the course.

Objective: By explicitly discussing the order of presentation of topics and concepts, the instructor shares the connections and accumulation of knowledge.

Process: Review the syllabus as a “road map”

  • Highlight the organization of the concepts
    • In the readings
    • In the topics
  • Discuss how the assignments serve as scaffolding for cumulative learning

Option: Connect this exercise with further discussion of the syllabus
* Based on strategies suggested by Ambrose et al., 2010

Source:Ā http://fc.short.cm/DemonstrateOrganizationalStructure