Current Issues

·   A Practical Approach to Student Persistence and Retention
·   Teaching Millennial Students: What Boomer and Gen X Faculty Need to Know
·   Wikis, Blogs, IMs, Facebooks, YouTube, and Second Life: Technology in the
   Grounded Classroom
·   What Do I Do Now? Managing Diversity Flashpoints in Higher Education

 

Foundations of Classroom Effectiveness

·   Teaching 101: A Workshop for Teachers Who Are New, Adjunct, or Just
   Interested!
·    Learning Styles, Learning Cycle: Planning Lessons to Engage All Types of
   Learners
·   Strategies for Increasing Student Involvement
·   Designing and Assessing Writing Assignments
 

Strategies for Active Learning

·   Engaging Critical Thinking and Content Mastery via In-Class Mini-Debates
·   Making Problem-Based Learning Work
·   The Harvard Case Method: Discussion That Enhances Student Learning
·   Using Service-Learning to Strengthen Student Learning and Retention
 

Diversity and Multiculturalism

·   What Do I Do Now? Managing Diversity Flashpoints in Higher Education
·    Inclusive Teaching: Strategies to Engage Diverse Learners
·   Language and Learning: Teaching Linguistically Diverse Learners
·   Religion in the Classroom: Discussing Issues of Faith in Secular Courses
 

Assessment of Student Learning

·   How to Assess Classroom Learning
·   Making the Grade: Methods and Philosophies of Fair Grading
·   Assessing Learning in the Academic Major
·   But Life Isn’t Fair! Assessing Individual Performance in Group Work
 

Teaching with Technology

·   From 404 to 411: Tapping Student Techno-Culture to Motivate Learning
·   Integrating Online Learning into Instructional Strategy
·   Web 2.0 in the Classroom: Collaborative Tools for Teaching and Learning
·    Podcasts: How to Create, Evaluate, and Use Them in Your Classes