Faculty are often searching for practical strategies to make their teaching engaging and impactful. The following information outlines some common teaching goals, along with the active learning ...

Activities are the experiences that allow students to achieve learning outcomes. These may consist of readings, lectures, group work, labs or projects to name a few. While situations and learning ...

At WMU Teaching and Learning, we strive to empower educators with easy-to-use, off-the-shelf resources designed to enhance your teaching practice. Whether you're looking to design an inclusive course, ...

The ECTL Certification and Badge Program offers an opportunity for UW instructors to further develop as informed scholars, teachers, and effective educators. This self-directed certification and badge ...

Brady Krien is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Iowa where he teaches in the Department of Rhetoric and serves as the Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Center for ...

Active Learning has been referred to as many things, including “project-based learning” and “flipped classes.” The fundamental premise of active learning is the replacement of passive class time with ...

Activities are what make your course come alive and help your students achieve learning outcomes. Because activities are what students will most experience and learn from, we first spend time ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Our students have a great deal of background knowledge that teachers need to activate so that they can learn new content. And students need to be provided with additional background knowledge so that ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What introductory activities are you planning to do, or have done already, with students to begin this highly unusual new school year (specifically—first day, first ...