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CPR for Student Writing
Two tough teaching challenges often join forces: getting students to think critically and to write clearly. A teaching strategy that can help with both is student peer review, but it can too easily degenerate into mindless friendly A’s. Enter technology. … Continue reading
Math and English Meet in the Classroom: Discuss
The Chronicle has published the first in a three-part series narrating the experience of an English professor (who is also dramaturg at the Folger Theatre) and a math professor in co-teaching a First Year seminar called “Mathematics and What it … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Teaching, Teaching Methods
Tagged english, interdiscipinary, math, multi-disciplinary, Seminar, Shakespeare, Syllabus, Teaching, Team Teaching, Writing
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Faculty Learning Communities Off to a Great Start
This year SMU introduced a new kind of support for teaching excellence, the Faculty Learning Community. These small interdisciplinary groups focus on a topic, study it together, and use their findings to enhance their own classes. In addition, the group … Continue reading
Posted in CTE, Learning Communities
Tagged faculty, FLC, learning, Technology, Writing
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Teaching With Blogs
When we assign our students to write things we usually think of traditional papers, but technology has provided us with opportunities for new media and new audiences. Students can learn not only how to write better but also lessons about … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Methods, Technology
Tagged Active Learning, Blogs, collaboration, critical thinking, Technology, Writing
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