Teaching Strategy Tip #37

Useful Resources for Students

Source: http://fc.short.cm/UsefulResourcesforStudents

Teaching Strategy Tip #28

Master basic metacognitive processes*

Strategy: Support students’ efforts to evaluate their own knowledge and skills, identifying strengths and weaknesses. Instructors can help students recognize what they do well and where they need improvement in their performance. Learning to assess how to complete a performance task (e.g., project, examination) demands guidance from the instructor and practice by the student.

Process: For every demonstration of performance (ungraded and graded), instructors guide students to:

Source: http://fc.short.cm/MasterBasicMetacognitiveProcesses

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Teaching Strategy Tip #41

Citation and Research Management Tools

  • EasyBib A simple, easy-to-use tool for managing citations. Set up an account to save your work.
  • Zotero Free Firefox extension and standalone application that helps manage information found on the internet including articles in library databases. Enables capture of data and creation of bibliographies.
  • Refworks Web-based bibliographic citation management tool featuring importing of references from online databases and creation of bibliographies in a variety of citation styles. Available to City Tech students, faculty, and staff. Log-in with your City Tech ID is required.
  • Mendeley Free online service that facilitates management of research documents and creation of bibliographies. Also has many features that support collaboration between researchers.

Source: http://fc.short.cm/ResearchToolsforStudents

Teaching Strategy Tip #32

Student Self-Evaluation of Discussion

Tip: Student Self-Evaluation of Discussion Participation (Brookfield & Presskill, 2007)

  • Distribute these questions to participants and have them complete these. Discuss with participants whether you as the instructor will see the students’ 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?

Sourcehttp://fc.short.cm/StudentSelfEvaluation

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 students’ 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?

Sourcehttp://fc.short.cm/StudentSelfEvaluation