Due to “always on” culture and the many personal and professional obligations facing faculty, setting aside time for scholarship writing is becoming more challenging. The...

This information is provided to new faculty during our New Faculty Orientation. News (yours and others) Hooray!  You’ve just had an article published / had...

This New Faculty Orientation (NFO) session provided a space for new faculty to strategically plan out ways to make progress on their scholarship and to...

Assessment is an integral part of our development as teachers and mentors, and it can also track the impact of curricular changes, and improve our...

New Faculty Orientation (NFO) Session  October 27, 3:30-4:30 pm Tips and Strategies:  From Holly Cate:  This idea isn’t a new one by any means –...

What’s going well in the class (that is, what is helping you learn, make the course interesting, etc.) What in the class could stand improvement...

I usually allow twice as much space for answers. This is a condensed list of questions for colleagues to see. 1.         List 3 things you...

To what extent are the course readings both challenging and accessible? To what extent are the written assignments both challenging and manageable? How much do...

This is a mid semester course evaluation I sometimes use. It is generic. I revise it by adding questions to fit the class. I like...

I often provide students with a list of 4-6 discussion questions for a reading or film. Students must read the discussion questions before reading/viewing the...

Students consistently work in homework groups in my class. Each group consists of 3 or 4 students. At the start of class, a group representative...

After an unhappy situation in one of my acting classes, I realized that I needed to develop a rubric for “Participation” — this sort of...

At the end of the semester, I tell my students that I will give them final feedback in the form of answers to three questions...

I ask students to engage in self-evaluation. They give themselves grades (with justification) on the assessment sheet I provide for big assignments. Typically, I have...

I ask students to post a brief analytical comment or question about the reading to a Canvas discussion board before every class. I make them...

Our statistics course is more heavily content-oriented and cumulative by nature so I use short low-stakes quizzes to keep students from falling behind. However, I...

I use this exercise to help students develop skills at keeping track of and retaining what takes place during a class discussion. Two students are...

In most of my classes where I use exams, I typically distribute some novel stimulus material in advance of the exam. It might be a...

Teaching hacks are relatively simple strategies that we might use to improve student learning or reduce our workload. These strategies might free up additional class...

Teaching hacks are relatively simple strategies that we might use to improve student learning or reduce our workload. These strategies might free up additional class...

I typically distribute some novel stimulus material in advance of the exam. It might be a case study, a research article, or a news event.