Teaching Tips

Teaching Tip # 6

 

A Guiding Principle for your interactions with Students

 

Try to keep this in mind in all your interactions with students: Students will forget what you say, forget what you do, but they will never forget how you make them feel.

 

 http://www.usp.edu/teaching/tips/management.shtml#positive

 

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Archived Teaching Tips of the Week

 

Teaching Tip #1
Every Teacher Should strive to give every student equal opportunity for learning.
 
Teaching Tip # 2
Promoting discussion in your class 

The first class is an appropriate time to establish guidelines for class participation and discussion and to ask for students' cooperation in implementing these guidelines. Here are a few guidelines to share with your students:

  • listen carefully to everyone, particularly those with different perspectives.
  • don't stereotype people by who they are or what they have said before
  • keep what is said confidential, especially personal information
  • speak from your own experience, do not generalize to other groups
  • speak from literature or other evidence you have gathered
  • do not blame or scapegoat
  • avoid generalizations about groups of people don't dominate discussions
  • focus on your own and other learning
  • Some of these suggestions come from R. Wlodkowski, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn, Jossey-Bass, 1999
  • http://www.usp.edu/teaching/tips/spal.shtml#discussion

 

Teaching Tip # 3

Getting students to participate in class

 

Here are a few simple strategies to get students to respond to questions or participate more:

 

  • Give students a clue regarding the kind of response that your are expecting

  • 1.Give students a minute to write their thoughts before anyone is called upon

  • 2.Break students into small groups to discuss the answer, then bring them back to the whole group.

  • 3.Arrive early to class and chat with students informally (helps them fail more comfortable)

  • 4.Use non-verbal means to invite people to participate - sit close to students, make eye contact with them individually, move around the room, or sit in different locations. 

  • http://www.usp.edu/teaching/tips/spal.shtml#classroom

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Teaching Tip # 4 

Getting students to listen to each other in class discussions
When you ask students to speak in class, do not repeat what they say. If you repeat what they say, the students will learn not to listen to each other and only to listen to you. Also ask your students to comment on each other's comments or to summarize what was said. 
http://www.usp.edu/teaching/tips/management.shtml#first

 

Teaching Tip # 5

Student classroom participation

One way to get the students to participate more in class is to give them an assignment that they have to come prepared to speak about. For example, you might ask them to bring a quote from the assigned reading which they especially related to, was inspiring or enlightening. Or you might ask them to bring a quote of a passage that they did not understand.

http://www.usp.edu/teaching/tips/spal.shtml#introducing 

 

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