By focusing on providing quality, effective feedback, we can maximize its positive effects on learning—not only helping students become better writers, but better thinkers, with increased confidence and motivation to succeed. The strategies here will help you determine what kind of feedback to give and when, as well as identify potential next steps for helping students actually use your feedback.
Resources
This four-part series introduces and develops the fundamental skills of effective teaching for graduate teaching assistants (TAs). Topics include communicating expectations, facilitating a class, grading, and teaching critical thinking skills.
Classroom observations are an excellent way for instructors to get outside feedback on what’s actually happening in their classroom—both in terms of their own practices and student behaviors—with the goal of improving their teaching.
The Kaneb Center’s Horane Diatta-Holgate discusses anti-racist pedagogy, an approach to teaching which centers the impact of racial histories and cultural experiences within and outside academic spaces.
This post provides an overview of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), a systematic approach to collecting and analyzing data related to your teaching practice and sharing that work with others. Features both a case study and on-campus resources/services related to assessment.
Let’s face it: Our students are using generative AI tools (whether we think they should or not!). How we respond to that use in our classrooms is up to instructors on an individual basis and will vary based on course goals and disciplinary norms.
By Amanda Leary What do we mean by inclusive language? To use inclusive language is to interact and engage in…
This resource guide explains a bit about what generative AI is and how it works while outlining potential uses and approaches to AI in the classroom. Section 4, “Strategies for Effective Teaching in the Age of AI,” shares new ways you might ask students to demonstrate their skills, knowledge, and abilities.
By Misbah Hyder What is a DEI statement? A DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) statement, also called “statement of commitment…
By Kristi Rudenga and Misbah Hyder What is a teaching portfolio? A teaching portfolio, sometimes called “evidence of teaching effectiveness,”…