Tag: students
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DEFINING THE BEST [Funmi Amobi]
This blog captures the discussion of the thinking and instructional practices of outstanding teachers in the introduction to Ken Bain’s (2004) book, What the best college teachers do. “Great teachers emerge, they touch the lives of their students, and perhaps only through some of those students do they have any influence on the broad act…
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Thank you for the endorsement President Ray.
“Each of us can contribute to the university’s student success initiative…share with students that you are here to help their success and help them succeed. Or attend one of the Tuesday Tech Talks put on by the Center for Teaching and Learning.” – President Ed Ray, Oregon State University. From his address to the campus…
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CTL Reaches out to OSU Faculty in Eastern Oregon
The faculty of OSU’s Agriculture and Natural Resource Program at Eastern Oregon University participated in a CTL workshop on Blended, Flipped and Hybrid Course Design and Teaching. The Agriculture and Natural Resources Program is a long-standing cooperative relationship between EOU and OSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences to serve students, communities and industries of eastern Oregon…
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Start Strong: Tips for an Effective First Day of Class
The first day of class sets the tone for the rest of the semester (Lang, 2019; Saucier 2019). Also, the first day of class comes with some nervousness, “first-day jitters,” even for experienced university teachers. There are several instructional tips for ensuring that the first day gets off to a good start. Lang encapsulates them…
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Congratulations, OSU Graduates!
The Center for Teaching and Learning congratulates all Oregon State University graduates in the Class of ’19 and offers our best wishes for a wonderful future! And as another academic year draws to a close, we extend our deep appreciation to all OSU teaching faculty for everything you’ve done this year on behalf of your…
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Strategies for Handling Student Absences
Our primary goal is to ensure students learn what we intend. It is true that when students miss a class, particularly one that is activity based, it is not possible to “make up” the experience. Still, there are legitimate reasons why students may need to be absent: death in the family, illness, sports and arts…
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Students’ Ratings of Instruction: Fair Usage?
Despite the preponderance of research documenting the limitations and inappropriate use of students’ ratings instruction as a primary evaluation of teaching quality, many universities continue to rely heavily, if not solely on eSETS to make professional decisions. Check out this NPR blog to see why this practice is, at the very least inappropriate and as…
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Grade distributions: What’s appropriate?
I recently received an inquiry in the Center for Teaching and Learning asking for advice on the “appropriate grade distribution” for a class. In fact, there is not an ideal grade distribution. The idea of grades, as opposed to narrative reports, were introduced to schooling early in the industrial revolution as a method of sorting…
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Top Three Tips to Promoting Student Success
As we ready for the new academic year teachers we reviewing our course syllabi and readying for new students. Some classes are large, some are online, others are blended or hybrid courses with some teaching on line and some face-to-face. Regardless of the delivery model, there are still three critical characteristics that directly influence students’…