Teaching methods

Elevate your classroom with engaging team building activities! Foster collaboration and problem-solving skills with fun, relevant exercises today!

For more information related to Bloom's Taxonomy, refer to the Bloom's Taxonomy Teaching Tip.

Diversify your lessons by discovering new learning activities that will work well in your class.

Beneath its simplicity lies an absolute dynamo, a vehicle that can cement learning more firmly than a lot of the other stuff we try, in a lot less time.

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Learn about the 5E Learning Cycle: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate

Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Alex Edmans shares about his book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It on episode 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

This week kicks off the series by exploring why critical reflection is essential for growth, perspective, and intentional decision-making in the classroom.

10 Tips from Smart Teaching Stronger Learning Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble Subscribe for the newsletter: retrievalpractice.org/subscribe More information about the book: retrievalpractice.org/smart-teaching Retrieval Practice: Smart Teaching Strategies for Stronger Learning by Dr. Jan...

Barry Sharpe, Western Governors University  Keywords: 3-2-1 Report, Backward Design, Elaboration Key Statement: Anchoring a course with the 3-2-1 Report can strengthen backward design and expand opportunities for students to use elaboration as a learning strategy. IntroductionThe 3-2-1 Report guides student note-taking by prompting students to reflect on their learning and consider where they are still struggling (Van Gyn, 2013). Common features of a 3-2-1 Report include: • Three things you have

Want your students to have rich, complex conversations about the texts they read? This method leads to the kinds of classroom discussions you thought only happened in college.

To be most effective, cold calling needs to take place within a psychologically safe learning environment. Here are three strategies to create that envoirnment and increase student engagement.

Transform your lectures into engaging experiences with these four strategies to turn passive listening into active learning.

Lauren Barbeau + Claudia Cornejo Happel discuss how to cultivate critical teaching behaviors on episode 559 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Sponsored by Explore Learning . Watch a video version of this tip on Instagram. One of the best-kept secrets in teaching is that frequent quizzing leads to better learning. I’m not talking about formative assessment here — this is quizzing as a learning strategy. A growing body of research is showing that when students are …

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What if we invited our students to talk about AI without steering them in a particular direction? Last semester, I felt a palpable sense of relief and excitement in the room at an open forum that drew teachers and students where I work at College of Marin. Shelly Jarenski writes, “Having these conve

Years ago, as I shifted toward empowering students, I ask myself the question, “What am I doing for students that they could be doing for themselves?” One of the most glaring answers was assessment. So, I began to incorporate peer assessment and self-assessment. Subscribe to...

Educators, are your group-project assignments falling short of expectations? Elevate your students’ collaborative learning experience with seven transformative strategies, ensuring team projects succeed and students remain enthusiastic about group work.

How grading for growth, not perfection, fosters confidence and learning in an introductory speech class.