Dear Colleagues,
Those of us at the FCTL know how busy this time of year is between wrapping up the semester and preparing for the holidays. With the added strain of dealing with COVID, a lot of us are struggling. We hope you take some time over the Thanksgiving break to relax and refresh.
Wishing you peace and clarity this week,
FCTL
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How to Make My Teaching More Inclusive
“The role of a college instructor is to help students feel included and ready to thrive!”
Two principles the authors addressed for inclusive teaching included:
- The more structure, the better for all.
- Too little structure leaves too many behind.
A simple application for inclusive teaching is to teach note-taking to students. I work through the tips below on the first/second day of class and even provide handouts with blanks for students to fill in for the first few classes. The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) provide these suggestions for sharing with students:
- Review notes from the previous class and assigned reading and ask the instructor to clarify what doesn’t make sense.
- Avoid writing too small and strive for easy readability.
- Leave a generous left margin for rewriting important words and abbreviated key content later.
- Make key words, important relationships, and conclusions stand out. Underline, highlight, box, or circle them.
- Organize your notes according to the instructor’s words and phrases. Listen for signal words such as “the following three…,” “the most important conclusion,” and “on the other hand.”
- Identify the most important points by watching for instructor cues: deliberate repetition, pauses, a slower speaking pace, a drop in pitch, a rise in interest or intensity, movement toward the class, displaying a slide, or writing on the board.
- If the instructor tends to speak or move from point to point too quickly, politely ask him or her to slow down.
- If you lose focus and miss part of a lecture, leave a space and ask a classmate, a teaching assistant, or the instructor to help you fill in the blank.
- Review, edit, clarify, and elaborate your notes within 24 hours of the lecture, again a week later, and again a month later—even if for just a few minutes.
G. Kevin Randall, PhD, CFLE (Certified Family Life Educator)
krandall@shsu.edu
Sam Houston State University
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Free Webinar with Dr. Becky Moening |
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Best Practices for Teaching Hybrid Classes
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2021 | 2:00 PM EST
The world of education continues to evolve and therefore, our teaching needs to evolve with it. Join Dr. Becky Moening as she explores the world of hybrid teaching and discusses:
- With hybrid teaching, how do you determine what is important to teach face-to-face and what can be done well online?
- What is the easiest and best way to find out which students are struggling, and which are excelling when you only see them part of the time?
- What are the best tools and resources to use when teaching in a hybrid environment?
You can register and learn more here.
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Race, Leadership and Engaging With Contrary Viewpoints |
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Listening to alternative points of view isn’t a particularly favored activity in many corners of society these days. But it remains one of the best ways – perhaps one of the only ways – of bridging the many divides (racial, economic, cultural) currently afflicting many aspects of our world. So argues Ronald A. Crutcher, president of the University of Richmond and author of I Had No Idea You Were Black: Navigating Race on the Road to Leadership (Clyde Hill Publishing).
In this episode of The Key, Crutcher discusses his leadership style, his views on campus race relations and affirmative action, and the importance of understanding the pain words can cause while still favoring free speech over limiting it.
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Planning and Facilitating Online Discussions |
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Learn techniques on how to provide rubrics, create reflection activities, provide strategic feedback and more to help students get the most out of online discussions with ACUE experts Flower Darby, Viji Sathy, and Ludwika Goodson.
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What I Love About Teaching |
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Let's hear from you!
Share your response to the question "What I Love About Teaching". Your response can be short, long, a bulleted list, or an image to offer up a few suggestions.
To share your response, click here.
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Course Messages in Blackboard Learn Mobile
As an instructor or student, you can send and receive messages from other students or instructors in a simple and easy way through the Blackboard mobile app.
Learn more through the video below.
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Ambassadors for Excellence in Teaching
Morehead State University
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