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March 19, 2025

Establishing Credibility in Managing the Classroom

Reading Time: 3 minutesCreating a strong classroom presence is essential for new faculty to establish credibility and effectively manage their classrooms. Students enter the educational environment with specific expectations. When they perceive their teachers as competent, caring, and honest, their emotional engagement and motivation to participate in academic activities significantly increase (Lv, 2024). Faculty should begin fostering a positive perception among students from...
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June 13, 2024

“So, What Do You Think?” Using Think-Pair-Share to Engage All Students

Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the simplest ways to engage your students is the tried-and-tested teaching strategy called ‘Think-Pair-Share’.  If you are newer to teaching, then this should be one of the first tools you develop and use as part of your teacher ‘toolbox’. It is easy to use yet very effective in improving collaboration and communication as well as improving learning outcomes. What...
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January 16, 2024

Promote Student Self-Monitoring in an Asynchronous Online Course

Reading Time: 3 minutesYou begin teaching an asynchronous online course, and you have taken the initiative to welcome your students with an announcement and welcome video. Now, as you eagerly await their participation, consider additional strategies to not only kickstart their journey but also ensure their successful completion of the course. Explore ways to promote student self-monitoring and cultivate self-directed learning skills, encouraging...
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November 14, 2023

Strategies and Scripts to Address Common Classroom Management Challenges

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt one point or another in your teaching career, you’re likely to encounter classroom management challenges. Some of the most common include: Our team has created this video role-play for you, where you can see (fictional) faculty member Wanda Tyler-Burns, consulting with Teaching and Learning Consultant Dr. Lauren Spring about some of these common challenges. We hope you find the...
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July 5, 2023

When Students are Non-Responsive in Synchronous Online Classes

Reading Time: 7 minutesIt can feel confusing or frustrating if a student attends your synchronous online class but does not join a breakout room or reply to you during class. You cannot determine if they are having tech trouble, have walked away from their device, or are simply listening quietly. It is unlikely that students who are non-responsive or inactive during synchronous online...
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October 25, 2022

Getting Students to Participate in Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 7 minutes“[B]reakout rooms do not always magically create engagement and higher levels of learning.” (Saltz & Heckman, 2020, para. 16) Breakout groups are used as a discussion technique to increase participation and group-based learning. However, pair and group activities can be cumbersome in online synchronous meetings, especially when, as professor, you cannot see all groups and monitor student conversations at the same time...
Categories Effective Teaching/Online Synchronous/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching for Learning
May 25, 2022

Asking Effective Questions

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou may want to ask questions of your class during lessons in order to: This post provides some ideas and examples for how to form and deliver questions to achieve each of these goals.  1. Encourage Participation and Recall Students are less likely to answer your questions if they find them confusing, vague, or unrelatable. Students are more likely to speak...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/Effective Teaching/Quality Assessment/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching for Learning
May 25, 2022

Oral Presentation No-Shows

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Elan Paulson and Kathryn Brillinger This tip provides some information about how to plan for and manage absences during in-class individual and group oral presentations. Every semester you are likely to have situations where students have (hopefully) done presentation pre-work but miss the requirement to present at a certain time. Some of the reasons for this might be Setting...
Categories Effective Teaching/Student Engagement & Communication
March 8, 2021

Encouraging Online Group Work Management with Microsoft Planner

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnline Group Work Students’ ability to organize tasks and manage time can affect their online group work experiences. In online team situations, Hurst and Thomas (2008) explain that group members “must engage in self-monitoring, team process monitoring, and proactive commitment to the work of learning” (p. 460). To enact these methods and foster positive group work experiences, Teach Me Tech...
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