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Brain-Friendly Instructional Strategies: How Students Learn Best

The brain seeks information and retains content taught in a positive environment where students learn by moving and interacting with each other. Make your 

Cooperative Learning

Do your students shy away from group work or group projects? Does group work lack equal participation and individual accountability resulting in a group

Teaching with AI-Inclusive and AI-Resistant Learning Experiences

Students have embraced Generative AI as an educational tool in human learning, and faculty will have to think differently about how they design assignments.

Grading Practices that Impact Student Success 

This interactive workshop examines 10 grading practices that faculty often use to assess student achievement, but can hinder student success. Participants will be

The Layered Curriculum

The Layered Curriculum is an innovation in assessment, giving students voice and choice in how they demonstrate mastery of content. It is a three-layer model of differentiated instruction

Minimizing Incivilities in the Classroom

It seems that classroom courtesy at the college level is on the decline, oftentimes changing the mood or dynamics of the collegiate setting and disrupting

Caring: A Teaching and Learning Practice that Impact Student Success

This highly engaging workshop examines the perceived characteristics of a caring faculty member from the perspectives of both students and faculty members.

Planning and Facilitating Engaging Lectures and Discussions  

The lecture gets a bad rap as a passive form of instruction whether teaching in the online or face-to-face. Yet, when delivered effectively, it can be a pedogeological 

Accelerating Achievement: Strategies That Help All Students Succeed 

Accelerating Achievement introduces college faculty to a powerful, research-based approach that transforms how students learn, retain, and apply course content.

The Motivational Syllabus  

Instructors are often taught that the syllabus is a contract, but is it? The motivational syllabus, created by Christine Harrington—co-author of Designing a Motivational Syllabus-- is designed to stimulate

It’s in the Syllabus

The course syllabus is one of the central artifacts of higher education. It is a critical means of communication between

teacher and student and is often the first form of interaction.

Stop, Start, Continue: Pivoting Your Course For Student Success  

You are half-way through the semester, and you might think that it is too late to press the restart button on achieving student learning outcomes

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