This video is part of a CTEL series called the Teaching Showcase. In this video, USM adjunct instructor Taylor Poulin tells us about the strategies she uses to engage her students, the techniques that work for her over Zoom and…
Practical Steps that Create Equity & Inclusion in Your Course: Step One
Background: USM President Glenn Cummings has listed equity as one of USM’s main values. In addition, equity plays a large part in priority number three of USM’s newly-minted five-year plan. For Academic Year 2020-21, CTEL will highlight one practical step…
Motivating Struggling Students
CTEL’s second Teaching Showcase event focused on ways to identify and motivate struggling students. In this article, we share key takeaways from the event.
The Art of Giving Feedback
CTEL dedicated its inaugural Teaching Showcase event to the art of giving feedback. In this article, we capture takeaways from the event.
Honing your learning objectives, part 2
In Part 2 of our blog series on learning objectives, we embrace the hard truths we learned during our previous efforts and discover how drastically a change to learning objectives can ripple through the rest of a course, requiring us to change more than just the objectives. The upside is students receive a truly challenging and engaging learning experience that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
