Facilitators: Dr. Karen Myers and Michaella Thornton Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 1-3 pm Busch Student Center, Room 253B “Students with disabilities are in danger of being either excluded from the new media revolution or accommodated as after-thoughts of pedagogies that fail to anticipate their needs,” writes Sean Zdenek, Associate Professor of Technical Communication and… Continue reading Getting Started in Designing Accessible Course Materials Workshop
Category: Engaging All Learners
Teaching for the First Time: 15 Tips
by Erin Solomon, Divya Subramaniam, and Dipti Subramaniam from the CTTL It’s the beginning of a new semester, and in honor of the 15th anniversary of the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL), we, the CTTL Graduate Assistants, would like to present 15 tips for anyone who may be teaching for the first time. While… Continue reading Teaching for the First Time: 15 Tips
First Impressions: A Reflection on our Snap Judgments of our Students
by Katie Beres, Instructional Liaison, CTTL As your students file in on the first day of class, what assumptions do you make about them? At the recent Winter Institute, the keynote speaker, Dr. Nina Ha, helped to bring to light the assumptions we make about others and consequently our students. Through her keynote address, (Re) Discovering… Continue reading First Impressions: A Reflection on our Snap Judgments of our Students
Environment As the Third Teacher
by Flannery Burke, Associate Professor in the Department of History Preschool might not be the first stop for most university educators when evaluating their own pedagogy, but it was for me when I encountered CTTL’s Learning Studio. First, some background: My son went to a pre-school that follows the Reggio-Emilia method, a pedagogical philosophy that… Continue reading Environment As the Third Teacher
Helping Students Connect the Dots using a Wiki
by Kim Levenhagen, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy I love watching how children imitate behaviors they have observed from role models. They develop their ability to problem solve new experiences by memories and trial and error. Young children are fearless. They are not afraid to try new things and make mistakes. You can almost see their… Continue reading Helping Students Connect the Dots using a Wiki
15 Strategies for Moving Beyond Lecture Capture: Interactive Instructional Uses for Tegrity
by Michaella Thornton, Assistant Director for Instructional Design, Reinert CTTL In honor of the 15th anniversary of the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL), I am excited to share “15 Strategies for Moving Beyond Lecture Capture: Interactive Uses for Tegrity” so faculty and students may continue to use this SLU-supported learning technology in… Continue reading 15 Strategies for Moving Beyond Lecture Capture: Interactive Instructional Uses for Tegrity
Teaching Students to be Good Communicators: Flying by the Seat of My Pants
by Mike Lewis, Associate Professor, Chemistry I spent the last part of last week at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. A fourth year PhD student came to the conference with me, and she gave two oral presentations. One was on a project she has been talking about for a while – she has… Continue reading Teaching Students to be Good Communicators: Flying by the Seat of My Pants
Habits of Thought and Practice: Examining the Lecture (Part 3 of 3)
by Katie Beres, Instructional Liaison In the first two posts in this three-part series, I examined the habit of thought related to preparing and conceptualizing the lecture experience. I shared that a major shift in my habit of thought for preparing my lecture time was to prepare for my lecture apart from any technology or tools… Continue reading Habits of Thought and Practice: Examining the Lecture (Part 3 of 3)
What Are We “Flipping” in the Flipped Classroom?
by Elena Bray Speth, Biology Department One of the newest trends in instructional design is the “flipped classroom”. Started in K-12 as a must-do-to-be-current practice, brought to public fame by initiatives like Khan Academy, talked about in pretty much every online forum on education, the flipped classroom approach involves delivering lectures outside of class, mainly through… Continue reading What Are We “Flipping” in the Flipped Classroom?
Habits of Thought and Practice: Examining the Lecture (Part 2 of 3)
by Katie Beres, Instructional Liaison In my previous post, I described the process of separating learning from the tools and activities used to facilitate the learning experience in a class. This second post will build on the learning strategies chosen to facilitate the learning for the lecture. The content of a lecture is driven by what… Continue reading Habits of Thought and Practice: Examining the Lecture (Part 2 of 3)
The Notebook 