Tools and Resources

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This FAQ sheet offers many suggestions for making good use of teaching assistants and classroom space.

Research indicates that learner-centered syllabi positively impact students’ perception of instructor
effectiveness and rapport with instructors (Harrington & Gaber-Quilen, 2015). Moreover, learnercentered syllabi can lead to higher levels of motivation and engagement, achievement, and rapport
between students (Karanja & Grant, 2020). This resource provides suggestions for constructing a
learner-centered syllabus.

Learning Activities_Rubrics_and_Course_Templates

Free templates of engaging learning activities, rubrics for various learning outcomes to save time, and multi-activity course templates to develop skills from the Learning Design Community of FeedbackFruits.com, originally founded in 2012 at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands.

Learning Conversations in Large Lecture Courses

This article from UC Berkeley's' Center for Teaching & Learning, reviews how to create opportunities for your students to build deeper understanding of concepts through articulation and elaboration, as they engage in learning conversations (discourse & sensemaking) in a large lecture hall. These strategies shift some of the intellectual work to the students, as they offer explanations, summaries, elaborations, articulations of the material, and find ways to connect to what they already know with what they are learning in your course (Allen & Tanner, 2005). The title of the article is "Discourse & Sensemaking Strategies in Large Lecture."

Allen, D., & Tanner, K. (2005). Infusing active learning into the large-enrollment biology class: Seven strategies, from the simple to complex. Cell Biology Education (CBE), 4, 262-268. doi:10.1187/cbe.05-08-0113

Learning Goals and Objectives

Well-written course learning goals and objectives based on Bloom's taxonomy communicate what students will learn and how they'll demonstrate their learning. They also facilitate the design of measurable activities,
assignments, instructions, and grading criteria.

Learning Goals and Objectives Video

In this video, you'll learn how to define the terms learning goals and learning objectives, evaluate the clarity of existing learning objectives, and perhaps write your own learning objectives for your courses.

Learning Objectives-Nemmec & Bussema

Learning Objectives article, 3 pages, published in the _Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal_ by Patricia B Nemec and Evelyn Bussema. They state." The article differentiates between general goals and instructional objectives. The article is copyrighted by the APA.

Lecture Discussion Facilitation Template

The Lecture/Discussion Facilitation Template was distributed at the 2017 Lilly Evidence-based Teaching & Learning Conference held in Bethesda, MD June 1 - 4, 2017. Use it during lectures as a low-stakes, largely anonymous method to gauge students’ understanding, as a pop quiz or survey, or to keep track of in-class group activities. The template can improve student participation and engagement by minimizing their fears of low (or even “too high”) performance before their classmates, and it provides a demonstrable, observable, measurable, and active way to gain a sense of how well students are “getting it,” beyond the glint in their eyes. In that sense, it serves as a quick formative assessment tool that can be customized on demand.

Liberal Arts Internship Guide for Supervisors

This is a full guide for internship supervisors in the College of the Liberal Arts. It would serve as a great model for other programs seeking to develop a similar document.

Likert Scale Tool for Evaluating a Syllabus

A Likert scale type tool for evaluating a syllabus.

Low Risk Strategies Promote Active Learning in Large Classes

In this article, Meixun Sinky Zheng, PhD, shares some low-risk strategies to help faculty transform lectures into student-centered learning experiences for enhanced learning outcomes. These active learning strategies can be easily implemented without significant redesign of the class and without an investment in technology. The article ends with a few tech-based strategies for engaging your students.