The launch of BYU Learning Suite is an opportunity to refresh your courses.
The launch of BYU Learning Suite is a great opportunity to refresh your courses and teaching practices. The Center for Teaching and Learning website has numerous resources for improving your courses.
Effective teaching requires continual reflection about teaching techniques, strategies, and materials....[Many] activities can be done on your own, but all are more effective when undertaken with a fellow teacher.
Turn your presentations into thinking and discovery tools with Prezi
Prezi is a free online presentation tool that allows you to create and share dynamic presentations. Without slides and bullet points, you are able to explore relationships among ideas through movement, allowing the form of your presentation to support its content. According to Dr. Gideon Burton, “It’s not just a presentation tool, it’s a thinking and discovering tool.”
"Do you sometimes (maybe regularly) get papers from students filled with spelling, punctuation, proofreading, and other more serious grammatical problems? Yours is not an English class and you have other content to teach, making it difficult to address these writing problems. And yet leaving them unaddressed puts students in jeopardy."[View full article (Requires BYU Login)]
"Out-of-class communication makes student-teacher relationships more personal and contributes to student learning. It is also the wellspring for continued academic exchange and mentoring.... As teachers we have a responsibility to encourage, indeed entice, our students to meet with us face-to-face." [View full article (Requires BYU Login)]