The resources below are offered to provide faculty self-service support to continually improve their practice. If you would like to suggest a resource please contact Dr. Hella Jacob.
Daemen College expects that all graduates will attain a set of competencies, such as Critical Thinking, Information Literacy and effective Written Communication. These skills are developed in the context of the classroom, where faculty design intentional learning activities that promote skill development, then assess achievement through course tasks, projects, and papers that are regularly assigned in the courses they teach. This collection of assignments developed of adapted by Daemen faculty was initiated and continually curated by Dr. Intisar Hibschweiler and Dr. Erica Frisicaro-Pawlowski.
From Magna Publishing, these 20-minute videos address evergreen topics in teaching and learning.
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What are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
In this 20-minute video you will learn to:
- Describe the key qualities of effective learning outcomes
- Identify fuzzy language when it is used in learning goals
- Explain how your course helps develop the competencies today's employers seek
How can Rubrics make Grading Easier and Faster?
In this 20-minute video you will learn to:
- Design and use rubrics to meet your needs
- Identify practices to control the number of students you grade
- Use student participation to improve the grading process
How can I Create Meaningful Assignments for my Students?
In this 20-minute video, you will learn to:
- Express and discuss the learning goals of an assignment
- Explain assignment requirements to students
- Evaluate the relevance of your assignments for students
- Increase student engagement
How Can I Make My Exams More about Learning, Less about Grades?
In this 20-minute video, you will learn to:
- Discuss the key pedagogical reasons for giving exams
- Identify common problems with review sessions
- Describe three clear steps for revamping review sessions
- Revise your exams to measure learning and reflect challenges common in professional life
- Revamp your post-exam debriefing sessions to increase student engagement and learning
How Do I Assign Students to Groups?
In this 20-minute video, you will learn:
- The benefits of group work for learning course materials.
- How to differentiate between formal and informal groups.
- How to follow a decision tree to decide on group composition, number of group members, and group grading policies.
How Do I Get More Students to Participate in Class?
In this 20-minute video, you will learn to:
- Better encourage students who rarely participate to speak more often.
- Provide other participation opportunities, such as brief written exercises or small group discussion, to help generate contributions.
- Move beyond seeing reluctant participators as a problem.
- Limit the participation of student who speaks too often.
- Find something positive to say about a first-time contribution.
How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
In this 20-minute video, you will learn to :
- Motivate students constructively to come to class prepared.
- Create and adopt How Can I Effectively Teach Unprepared Students? for students who come to class unprepared.
- Convey to students the value of having read the assigned text.
- Communicate to students that they are responsible for reading the assigned material.
How Can I Be an Effective Mentor?
In this 20-minute video you will learn to:
- Implement a mentoring relationship
- Guide newly hired faculty to success at your institution
- Discuss important and confidential issues
- Provide ongoing feedback and assistance
How Can I Effectively Teach Unprepared Students?
In this 20-minute video you will learn to:
- Identify students that are unprepared
- Determine causes for students to be unprepared
- Implement strategies to assist unprepared students
- Carnegie Mellon (Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence)
- This site provides a set of principles of learning and teaching based on current research, concrete steps for course design, and strategies for dealing with common teaching problems (student prerequisite skills, poor attendance, participation, etc.)student
- University of Michigan (Center for Research on Teaching and Learning)
- This site focuses heavily on research on learning and instruction, and also features a section on multicultural teaching.
- University of Georgia (UGA Center for Teaching and Learning)
- This site focuses on a full-service model of faculty support. See Faculty Services and Programs and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
- University of California, Berkeley (Office of Educational Development)
- This site provides organized teaching materials, downloadable publications, and a video library of faculty teaching across the disciplines.
- Carleton College (Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching)
- This site features a “teaching activity” collection with examples of assignments and learning experiences from courses in various majors.
- Harvard University (Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning)
- The “resources and advice” section includes links to teaching and learning articles, video examples of active lecture techniques, and a section on research based teaching.
- Cornell University (Center for Learning and Teaching)
- See “publications and presentations” for teaching and learning workshop materials from faculty representing a wide variety of disciplines and teaching topics.
- University of Iowa (Center for Teaching)
- See the “teaching materials” section under Resources.
- DePaul University (Teaching Commons)
- See the section on rubrics.
- Learner Centered Teaching
- The largest resource for learner centered teaching on the web. Terry Doyle, the site's creator, was the keynote speaker at the Daemen College 2013 Learning & Teaching Symposium.
- The IDEA Center
- Visit the collection of short (2-3 page) papers on learning and teaching, and longer (10-20) research papers on best practices in instruction, assessment, and more. You can also paper copies of some Idea Papers in the Experimental Classroom.
- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Carnegie projects include the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, efforts to enhance developmental math, assessing teaching in K-12 and higher education, and much more.
- Faculty Focus
- A collection of timely and practical resources for faculty. Some require subscription or purchase. Other resources are freely available.