Category: Teaching a Course
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Why Didn’t Anyone Do Today’s Reading? – Engaging Students by Building Relationships
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Article by Pamela Rivers The semester is well under way. Your students have taken their first exam. Some are active and excelling. Others have stopped coming to class or are not completing the assigned readings. Welcome to the end of September. Maybe you thought this time it wouldn’t happen. Everyone was eager and excited and…
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Tips for Effective Teaching in Campus‐To‐Campus (C2C) and Campus‐To‐Anywhere (C2A) Courses
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Contents Campus-to-campus (C2C) and campus-to-anywhere (C2A) are two of UW-Green Bay’s six teaching modalities. Both campus-to-campus and campus-to-anywhere courses pose the challenge of managing a class where some students are physically present in the room while the rest join remotely from another location. These two modalities also require classrooms with specialized technology so that all…
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Addressing Misinformation in the Classroom
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Whether it is in the context of a Canvas discussion board or during an in-person discussion, an obviously false claim from a student can leave you feeling blindsided if you’re not prepared. With a little work, though, you can often turn these interactions into constructive learning opportunities. This post explores steps you can take to…
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Fostering Information Literacy to Create a More Positive Learning Environment
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How can we as educators work to counteract the misinformation our students are continually exposed to and instead cultivate their information literacy and critical thinking? While the follow-up to this post will focus on directly addressing misinformation that students share during class, this first post will outline measures you can take to reduce the occurrence…
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Evidence-Based Frameworks and Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged
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Engaging students is a common concern among instructors. While some approaches for engaging students are contingent on modality and content area, there are also methods that can apply to courses of all types. CATL has compiled some of these key research-backed frameworks and strategies in this blog post on student engagement.