COVID-19 provides an opportunity to assess your online teaching effectiveness. Use the following Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to get started now!
If you were not teaching online already, most (if not all) of you will be soon. For many this might be your first time teaching online and [read more...]
Advice
How to Bring Discussions Back Into Discussion Forums
Discussion forums are now a staple of online education. However, since becoming common fare in online classrooms, many students have lost their appetite for them and teachers and institutions wrestle with how to get them to partake. As a [read more...]
Purposeful Group Work in the Classroom
2019-01-30Purposeful Group Work in the Classroom
One of the major trends in the teaching of writing is to have “group work.” In essence, this means that students work in small groups to accomplish a goal. One classroom is divided into multiple groups and then, the activity takes care of itself. Or does [read more...]