Tag: teaching
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Jump-Start Your Remote Teaching with a Canvas Template
To help you rapidly prepare for Spring term remote teaching, you have access to a Canvas course template that can be imported into your empty Canvas course sites. The template itself gives simple directions to import it into your course sites. You can do this in 2 minutes! The template embodies evidence-based best practices for…
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Going Far Together: The Benefits of Participating in a Faculty Learning Community
“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” Faculty learning communities (FLCs) provide a fail-safe place for university educators with a common interest in innovative teaching and learning practices to go far together. FLCs are interdisciplinary groups of 6 – 15 faculty members who engage in a…
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Show Your Work: Teaching Philosophies & Portfolios
by: Shannon Hampton, InstructorCollege of Business, Design and Innovation Management What is the value of having a teaching philosophy and a portfolio? Today we learned in the T4 Presentation: Teaching Philosophies and Portfolios, the answer to this question and many more. 57% of people applying for faculty positions are using a portfolio in place of…
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Two Heads Are Better Than One: Tips for Making Group Work Work
Group work is a critical element of active learning (Freeman et al. 2014; Brame & Biel, 2015, Hodge, 2017; Tombak & Altun, 2016). The benefits of group work range from promoting learning, metacognition and academic success to developing social interaction, communication, and critical thinking skills. These skills are greatly valued in the workplace (Hodge, 2017;…
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The art of connecting: Emotionally intelligent teaching
by: Xiangyou Shen, Visiting Assistant ProfessorCollege of Forestry, Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou The lasting and powerful impact of emotions, as illustrated in the quote by Maya Angelou, is…
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SPS Presents: Deep dives into learning: Challenges and developments in teaching general psychology
SPS 2019 Fall Colloquium – Regan Gurung, SPS Professor & Interim Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning What are the best ways to predict learning? How can you increase learning in large classes? In this overview of research on teaching and learning, Dr. Gurung will share some key predictors of learning, outline important…
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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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College of Liberal Arts Celebrates Outstanding Teaching at CLA DAY!
At the OSU CTL we are committed to creating and sustaining a culture of teaching excellence. We are always thrilled to see how different colleges and units on campus celebrate the hard work that goes into classroom and online instruction. Just recently, CLA shone the spotlight on teaching in their College. We join them in…
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Join us in creating a culture of teaching excellence- OSU’s CTL
Dear OSU Campus Community, Greetings from your Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Housed on the top floor of LInC, our goal is to create and sustain a culture of teaching excellence, and position OSU at the forefront of educational innovation. Informed by evidence-based instructional practices and designed to address key faculty, instructor, and GTA needs, we have three major…
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We Salute the 2019 OSU Teaching Award Recipients
University faculty and staff are called on to do many things. Balancing research, teaching, and service can be demanding. Doing any one of these well while also giving the other elements attention can be a challenge indeed. It is particularly inspiring to see universities reward exemplary efforts in the classroom and lab. We at the…