Workshop Program

Interactive Teaching Practices Posters (Acrobat (PDF) 3MB Mar7 18)

More Teaching Method Ideas

Teach the Earth Portal

InTeGrate

Supporting Students at Two-Year Colleges

Take the Implicit Bias Test

21 Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity Article (Tanner, 2013, doc: 10.1187/cbe.13-06-0115, CBE Life Science Education, 21(3), 322-331)

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• Minorities and Women (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 13kB May14 14)
• First Generation College Students (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 15kB May14 14)
• English Language Learners (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 13kB May14 14)
• Veterans and Active Military (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 13kB May14 14)

Assessment page from Pedagogy in Action

Types of Assessment

• Handout from workshop on the Research Behind Motivation & Metacognition (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) PRIVATE FILE 128kB Oct7 15)
• Sites that provide self-regulatory strategies:
• What is Self-Regulated Learning from SAGE2YC program
• Specific activities from the workshop
• Interventions from GARNET project further examples from the workshop
• Engagement: Students are more likely to be engaged in the content when they are able to interact with their peers, in a safe and community-building environment, and when the content is relevant or authentic. How well did this lesson support these aspects of engagement? Use examples from the lesson.
• Creating an engaging and community building classroom means tending to affect
• Strategies for supporting students in the classroom

• Motivation: Students are more likely to be motivated to learn if they believe they can be successful at the task asked of them, believe they are supported if they encounter difficulties, and they value the content they are learning (does it relate to their own lives and/or interests). In addition, students also have social goals, when engaging in content, if they are also able to attend to those social goals, they are more likely to stay engaged and motivated to learn. How well did this lesson support these aspects of motivation? Use examples from the lesson.
• Resources and Research on Motivation in the Classroom
• Series of 5 short you-tube videos about student motivation and learning, great for your students and you by Steven Chew at Stamford University in Georgia

• Metacognition: Students are more likely to learn deeply if they have the opportunity to reflect on their learning, both about how their understanding has changed, but also what aspects allowed their learning to occur and to identify areas that require more attention in order to more effectively understand the content. How well did this lesson support these aspects of metacognition? Use examples from the lesson.
• Integrating Metacognition into your instruction
• Teaching Metacognition
• An example of specific strategies in a 2yc classroom

• Important Resources for all:
• Overview on Research on Teaching and Learning
• Resource written for students on learning how to learn by Karl Wirth, Macalester College and Dexter Perkins, University of North Dakota
• More on research-based strategies for your teaching from the Carl Wieman Institute

Water and Environmental Justice Module

Water and Environmental Justice Module for Spanish Speakers

Classroom Observation Project- RTOP