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  1. Teaching High School Students

    Teaching High School Students Purpose:  This resource provides strategies for designing motivating, developmentally appropriate, and well-structured learning experiences for high school students in our  Pre-College Program  and  Secondar...
  2. Surveys

    Surveys Purpose:  Knowing who your students are at the beginning of the semester is very helpful in teaching. It allows you to build rapport between the teaching staff and students, lets your students know that you care about them as ind...
  3. Polls

    Polls Why should I use polls? Polls are a great way to get feedback from your students while letting them know that you value their input and care whether or not they are understanding important concepts. Also, polls allow students who...
  4. Effective Feedback

    Effective Feedback Purpose:  Effective feedback is one of the most powerful tools instructors have to support learning, but it can be challenging to deliver feedback that motivates and guides students. How can you ensure your feedback is...
  5. Grading Group Projects

    Grading Group Projects Purpose:  Group projects help build collaboration and communication skills, but grading them can bring unique challenges. How do you ensure grades are fair, reflect both group and individual effort, and encourage m...
  6. Oral Exams

    Oral Exams Purpose:  With advances in generative AI, many instructors are rethinking how to assess learning authentically. Oral exams, once considered old-fashioned in some disciplines, are making a comeback for good reason. They allow i...
  7. Alternatives to Traditional Exams

    Alternatives to Traditional Exams Purpose:  Alternative assessments can foster deeper student engagement, real-world skill-building, and more accurate representations of what students know and can do, especially in the age of AI. To make...
  8. Authentic Assessments

    Authentic Assessments Purpose:  Authentic assessments ask students to apply what they’ve learned in meaningful, discipline-specific contexts. These real-world tasks promote deeper engagement, critical thinking, and knowledge transfer bey...
  9. Teaching a Multigenerational Classroom

    Teaching a Multigenerational Classroom Purpose: Today’s classrooms may bring together secondary students, traditional-age undergraduates, and working adult learners with wide-ranging backgrounds, experiences, and goals. This diversity e...
  10. Teaching Undergraduates and Graduate Students

    Teaching Undergraduates and Graduate Students  Purpose:  In some courses, it’s common to find both undergraduate and graduate students learning side by side. While this format offers opportunities for cross-level peer learning, it also p...