Instructors should take the time to ask themselves what they can do differently when students struggle on an assignment. If there are pain points in the courses they are teaching, and students ...

Online Teaching 101: Best Practices in Online Instruction is a four-week, asynchronous online course that introduces instructors to the best practices in online instruction. Successful completion of ...

Engage students curiosity through authentic and relevant content and help them develop the specific skills integral to good studentship. Organize your class to teach these skills. For example, while ...

The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation is pleased to offer Best Practices in University Teaching (BPUT), a multiday workshop for Johns Hopkins faculty. The workshop will present pedagogical ...

“The only way to be sure that students are learning is through varied and frequent assessment.” At least that’s what we were told at a teaching conference we attended in February 2011. If we ...

[I] Instructors should cultivate an atmosphere that is open, curious, comfortable, and supportive. They should not tolerate aggressive, offensive, or inappropriate behavior. [I] In smaller courses, ...

In Geology and Environmental Earth Science, students use informal writing (like observational notes, data plots, diagrams, etc.)to generate ideas and do the work of science. In History, students ...

All courses being taught as Advanced Writing (ADVW) should include a statement in the syllabus indicating it is an ADVW course. To see what ADVW courses look like, instructors can explore examples of ...

Many units on the CU Boulder campus have been working in partnership with the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) Inititiative to better align their teaching evaluation practices with known scholarship ...

The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation is pleased to offer Best Practices in University Teaching (BPUT): a multiday workshop for Johns Hopkins faculty. The workshop will present pedagogical ...