Best Teaching Practices

Best Practices

“Best practices” connect relevant educational research to in-course application to help instructors do the following:

Inject rigour into the curriculum and its presentation

Develop students’ thinking and problem-solving skills

Motivate, engage, and prompt students to learn

While the entire “Resources” section of the site addresses “best practices” for university-level teaching, this section covers other important but more “miscellaneous” issues not found under the specific topics listed in the left column.

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10 Core Values for Education

I found this list of "10 Core Values for Education" (post) both encouraging and useful for my own work as an instructor as well as for my continuing efforts as the Coordinator of Instructional Development in the Teaching Commons.

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Keep Classes from Going Too Long/Short

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Click the image above to be taken to an online "Countdown Timer" that allows you to set multiple timers and add music or videos to each timer.

"How to Keep Class Sessions from Running Short (or Going Too Long)" (post) outlines six "approaches to use ... for time-based ... class planning":

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Must Lectures Be So Long? Rethinking the (Online) Class

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"Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?" (post) presents some engaging and effective options to "virtual courses that tr[y] to preserve the existing lecture format" -- and outlines a way of approaching such restructuring.