Teaching strategies

Community Building Questions (feel free to add to the list) Community building in online environments can be tricky. Here is a list of questions that we have used over the past year in starting our meetings. These questions could be used to start classes or discussion sections as well. We use...

Humanizing Visual Guide – full version

A professor finds that personal essays are surprisingly effective in building relationships in a synchronous virtual classroom.

Seven ways to lighten things up in class that are emotionally, academically, and pedagogically sound.

Barbara Rodriguez, Jodi Robson, and Michelle Levine talk coffee, community, and curriculum on episode 355 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Episode #66: 25 Ways to Get to Know Your Students with Dr. Barbi Honeycutt (and the Lecture Breakers Community!)

Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, and Mia Zamora share about community building activities on episode 349 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

by Cynthia J. Brame Print Version Cite this guide: Brame, C. (2013) Writing good multiple choice test questions. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/writing-good-multiple-choice-test-questions/. Constructing an Effective Stem Constructing Effective Alternatives Additional Guidelines for Multiple Choice Questions Considerations for Writing Multiple Choice Items that Test Higher-order Thinking Additional Resources Multiple choice test questions, also known as items,...

How a graphic, interactive syllabus decreased student cognitive load and increased the motivation to learn.

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Sharing Practices, Building Community

It’s a general-purpose didactic instrument, a veritable Swiss Army knife of classroom tools, argues Zachary Nowak, who suggests how to effectively use it in your own courses.

Virtual Community Building for High School, College, & Graduate Students by Torrey Trust, Ph.D. | torrey@umass.edu With schools across the country shifting their instruction to remote/online teaching for the fall, it’s more important than ever that students have opportunities to feel part o...

Reflection Assignment: Intercultural Dialogues Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for you to put into practice the reflection portion of Kolb’s learning cycle in order to process the learning from this module. As John Dewey notes, “We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflectio...