TEACHING TIP
Three Steps to Improve Your Teaching
You can plan now to make your course even better. Research conducted here at the Center for Teaching and Learning indicates that instructors can take a few simple steps to make their classroom experiences more effective for student learning. Presented here are three things that you can do as you plan for future courses.
- Encourage active and practical learning.
- Provide for meaningful teacher-student interactions.
- Make course expectations clear and based on learning outcomes.
TECH TIPShowing a YouTube Video in a PowerPoint Presentation When displaying PowerPoint slides to students, it is often inconvenient to display a YouTube video by exiting the slideshow and opening up a separate browser window. If you have an active internet connection, there is a technique for pointing to the YouTube video and having it run right inside your PowerPoint slide. Just follow the easy steps laid out in this week's tech tip. |
LIGHT THE FIREA Better Voice “Students have said to me and my colleagues here, 'Thank you for teaching me so and so.' But the 'so and so' was something I did not know, or at least did not attempt to teach that day. A better voice than mine was whispering under my voice, something that they were then ripe and ready for, and it came.” |