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Course: Social Class & the Environment (WRPR/ENVS0210), a Human Ecology cognate in ENVS and a college writing course (CW) Idea: The creation of a textbook for the course; this is the core of the course. What’s needed: Scalar: knowledge of the tool to be able to instruct students on how to use different options when more… »
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To promote student engagement in course materials in a mostly-asynchronous course, I developed a framework of “Weekly Engagement Activities” that provide multiple flexible opportunities for students to demonstrate their engagement. This is the language used to describe the framework: Each week, students have multiple ways to demonstrate their engagement with the course. Most of these more… »
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The Main Idea: There are many reasons you may want assign students to groups rather than letting them form their own group. Here I suggest one way to assign students to groups and pairs that encourages them to meet new people, but also tries to avoid common complaints and pitfalls of random group/partner assignments. I more… »
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Group Projects are an exciting and engaging way to both drive and assess student-learning while building community in our classrooms. However, assigning a group grade for one or more major assessments in a course can elicit anxieties on behalf of both the instructor and the students. Did every student meet the learning objectives? Did students more… »
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One of my main goals in my courses is to prepare students to be better at presenting information to a particular audience. Communications skills are always “more important than ever.” I find our majors often lack experience in verbal presentations of the sort I do all the time professionally, and my friends out of academia more… »
