You will find a booklet containing all fifteen models of innovative and best practices here.
You can either download the whole document or go straight to a particular practice. The table of contents is below:
Table of Contents:
1. Unannounced Peer Reviews
Eric Burin – History ……………………………………………………............Page 4
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Turning Extra-Curricular Service into Service Learning
Robin David – Honors Program…....................................................Page 6
3. Using Online Quizzes to Encourage Students to
Read Their Textbooks
Brett Goodwin – Biology……………………………………………….............Page 20
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How to Manage Interactive and Feedback Strategies
in “Mass” Classes
Wendelin Hume – Criminal Justice…………………………………….........Page 25
5. I Don’t Care What You Think, I Care How You Think:
Facilitating
Dialogue on Difficult Issues
Steven Andrew Light – Political Science & Public Administration........Page 28
6.
Students Helping Students: Experiential and Service Learning
Leslie Martin & Elizabeth Bjerke – Aviation......................................Page 31
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Teaching Autobiography and Film Through Auto-Referential,
Task-Based Assignments
Sarah E. Mosher – Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures……......Page 36
8.
Flexible Grading
Dexter Perkins – Geology & Geological Engineering............................Page 49
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The Writing Process as a Means to Deeper Learning
Cynthia Prescott – History...............................................................Page 52
10.
Teaching Race Without a “Critical Mass”
Kathryn R. L. Rand – Law…………………..........................................Page 69
11.
Employing the Learning Community Model in the Graduate Classroom
to Strengthen Ties between Teaching,
Research, and Learning
Rebecca J. Romsdahl – Earth System Science and Policy.......................Page 79
12.
Simulated Negotiated Problem Solving
Brian Urlacher – Political Science & Public Administration………........Page 90
13.
Supporting Critical Thinking in Online Threaded Discussion Boards
Richard Van Eck – Teaching & Learning……………………………............Page 99
14.
An Alternative Final Oral and Written Semester Test
Dave Yearwood – Technology………………………………………...............Page 116
15.
Using Peer Review to Foster Proof-Writing Skills in Mathematics
Ryan J. Zerr – Mathematics……………...............................................Page 126
Each model of practice has the following (available as a PDF document):
1) a cover sheet which describes the teaching strategy and the classes in which it has successfully been utilized
2) a handout which details how to implement the teaching strategy
| Teaching Race Without a “Critical Mass” A Teaching Module on Affirmative Action and Some Lessons Learned in Teaching Race in a Homogeneous Classroom by Kathryn Rand (School of Law) |
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Using On-Line Quizzes to Encourage Students to Read their Textbook by Brett Goodwin (Biology) |
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| How to Manage Interactive and Feedback Strategies in "Mass Classes" by Wendelin Hume (Criminal Justice) |
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| A Peer Review Process in Mathematics by Ryan Zerr (Mathmatics) |
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“I Don’t Care What You Think, I Care How You Think": Facilitating Dialogue on Difficult Issues by Steven Light (Political Science and Public Administration) |
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| Flexible Grading by Dexter Perkins (Geology and Geological Enginerring) |
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| Students helping Students: Experiential and Service Learning by Elizabeth Bjerke and Leslie Martin (Aviation) |
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| In-Class Writing Assignments and Unannounced Peer Reviews by Eric Burin (History) |
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| Alternative Exams by Dave Yearwood (Department of Technology) |
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