Teaching Strategies Faculty Peer Review: Adapting the Process to Your Context Establish goals for the observation and provide useful background information for the observer.
Teaching Strategies Flexible Learning in the New Normal Explore strategies for providing flexible support to your learners when they have unexpected–and even prolonged–absences.
Foundations of Learning Flipped Course Design Flipping the class moves passive learning outside of the classroom to make time in class for structured application.
Diversity and Inclusion Fostering Belonging Supporting students’ sense of belonging positively impacts their academic success and overall well-being.
Teaching Strategies Fostering Integrative Learning ePortfolios create opportunities for moments of insight and community in ways no other approach can.
Teaching Strategies Fostering Intellectual Agility through Mindfulness in the Classroom Mindfulness activities can strengthen students' habits of attention, equipping them for the hard work of learning transfer.
Foundations of Learning Giving Learners Effective Feedback Good feedback helps your learners get closer to achieving the goals you have for them, and can also bring more meaning to your relationship with them as an educator.
Teaching Strategies Giving Your Students the “Big Picture” Many educators are now discovering the many-faceted value of a “Course Graphic.”
Foundations of Learning Group Discussion Activity Design Basic principles can help you design powerfully-effective group discussion activities in any discipline.
CATLR Tips and Resources Highlights From the 2019 Conference for Advancing Evidence-Based Learning On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, Northeastern’s Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR) held the annual Conference for Advancing Evidence-Based Learning.
Hybrid NUflex Hybrid Course Design Hybrid classes have a greater emphasis on out-of-class resources and interactions.
Experiential Learning In-Class Activities Investigating the many ways your concepts can appear across Co-op contexts can reveal the common meaning below their differing surface features.
Foundations of Learning Inductive In-Class Activities for Deeper Learning In-class activities that leverage prior knowledge and create a need to know have the potential to foster deeper, more motivated…
Foundations of Learning Integrating Reflection Reflection enables students to connect theory to practice and generates the breakthrough moments that bring learning to the next level.
Diversity and Inclusion Interculturally Informed Teaching Enable students to practice intercultural connection with perspective-taking and tolerance for ambiguity.
Experiential Learning Introduction to Experiential Learning We have some kind of concrete experience, about which we reflect and make some new understanding, then act upon that new understanding.
Foundations of Learning Iterative and Incremental Assignments for Deeper Learning Feedback should serve as an interim step that guides students toward successfully achieving the assignment goals (Ambrose, 2010).
Spotlights Keynote Spotlight: Dr. Alison Cook-Sather Conference keynote Speaker Dr. Alison Cook-Sather (Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges) discusses pedagogical partnerships and creating support structures for dialogue between teachers and students.
Experiential Learning Late Semester Opportunities Help learning stick with students beyond final exams or end-of-semester projects by building in synthesis activities that look to the future.
Foundations of Learning Learner-Centered Syllabus As a first artifact of the teacher-student relationship, the syllabus is a physical manifestation of how you view your students, your course and discipline--and what they can expect from their time with you.
Online Learning Learning in Zoom Learning in Zoom is an adjustment if you are accustomed to attending class on-ground, but these recommendations and tips will…
Active Learning Leveraging A Challenge Project Course Template Explore CATLR's Challenge Project Course template, a tool you can use to build a project-based course in Canvas. With this model, students learn course content and skills inductively by conducting inquiry and analysis, and developing results in response to a “driving question.”
Experiential Learning Leveraging Students’ Prior Experiential Learning Helping students to reflect upon, share, and use what they have learned through experiential learning offers us significant benefits as teachers.
Success Leveraging the First Day of Class Mitigate student resistance to new approaches by using the first day of the course to elicit students’ expectations and connect their expectations with your course design and plan.
Assessment Listening to Student Perspectives on Fostering Academic Integrity How can educators foster academic integrity in their students? Bring student voices into the conversation.
Foundations of Learning Make Prior Learning Visible with Concept Maps Asking learners depict their understandings can help support the construction of meaning, and create a space for learners to reflect upon what they actually know.
Foundations of Learning Making Meaning Out of Failure “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
Assessment Measurable Student Learning Outcomes Student learning outcomes are measurable and student-centered.
Foundations of Learning Motivating Online Students What motivates students? This question is particularly important to consider when facilitating an online course, as self-directed learning is key to student success in this format.
Experiential Learning Multidisciplinary Teaching Multidisciplinary teaching helps students learn how to tackle today’s complex problems.
CATLR Tips and Resources Navigating the IRB while Conducting Research in Your Teaching Practice Take the first step towards researching learning by reviewing several ethical considerations and regulations related to student data.
Online Learning Not All Interactivity Is Created Equal How do we make interactivity meaningful for learning?
Online Learning Online Course Development: A Roadmap Putting a course online challenges educators to transform content, activities, and their approach to interacting with students.
Online Learning Organize Your Online Course for Student Success The choices you make about how to communicate, organize, and label the components of your online course impacts students’ learning experiences.
Teaching Strategies Pop-up Learning at Northeastern What is a "pop-up"? The term “pop-up” has been popping up a lot lately at Northeastern and in the world…
Success Proactively Developing a Positive Course Climate While some factors are beyond our control, we can proactively deploy specific practices to increase the likelihood that a positive, supportive “course climate” will prevail
Experiential Learning Project-Based Learning Successful Project-Based Learning experiences do not happen by accident. Strategy, structure, accountability and feedback unleash PBL's pedagogical promise.
Experiential Learning Projects Every course can include an experiential learning component through applied and meaningful projects.
Foundations of Learning Promoting Integration and Ideation Through Design Thinking When students come to us seeking guidance about their futures, it can be helpful to borrow concepts from the Design Thinking framework to structure the conversation.
Diversity and Inclusion Promoting Intercultural Competence in Your Learning Environment Consider actively engaging the diversity of backgrounds of your learners to enrich the experience for everyone.
Foundations of Learning Promoting Transfer of Knowledge Through Expansive Framing Supporting students’ sense of belonging positively impacts their academic success and overall well-being.
Experiential Learning Prompts for Meaningful Reflection Reflection is an important part of learning that pushes the learner to think more deeply or differently.
Teaching Strategies Re-envisioning Lectures These four tips will help you design lectures that help students process and make sense of presentation contents
Foundations of Learning Reflect on the Learning Environments You Create It’s important to take stock of how our learning opportunities have unfolded in the past, what patterns we might see, and how this can inform you approach moving forward.
Teaching Strategies Reflecting on the Last Day of Class The last day of class offers a powerful opportunity for students to both bring closure to their overall experience, but also look ahead to how what they have learned can inform their future in specific ways. For this reason, it can be an important beginning.
Teaching Strategies Set the Tone on the First Day of Class in Your Hybrid Course Like many aspects of teaching, helping students develop a sense of belonging and community can impact learning in both face-to-face…
Teaching Strategies Set the Tone on Your First Day of Class Like many aspects of teaching, helping students develop a sense of belonging and community can impact learning regardless of course…
Teaching Strategies Students As Makers: Renewable Assignments "Renewable assignments" add value to the world, instead of being discarded by students once they get their grade.
Assessment Students as Partners in Learning What constitutes a partnership, and what are the benefits? Student-educator partnerships are defined as “[a] relationship in which all involved—students,…
Diversity and Inclusion Supporting an Inclusive Course Climate in the Heat of Challenging Moments Course climate is at the core of creating a classroom environment that fosters learning for every student.