Challenges
Challenges are questions about your teaching and learning that require deep reflection. We aren’t asking for an answer as if there were one response, but hope you will seek your own answers to these questions as part of reflective practice. If you do wish to respond in writing or to propose a new challenge question, just send us an email.
May 4, 2012
If you knew your students would remember only one idea, concept, principle or lesson from your class, which one would you pick for it to be and why?
April 1, 2012
Do you ever feel like you are in an arms race with your students over the syllabus: You write more but they are reading less? What are some ways to combat that effect?
Would it work to do a "visual syllabus" introduction in which you use images to convey the essence of the syllabus and then refer them to the document? What other ideas do you have?
March 1, 2012
Libraries have undergone radical changes in the last decade. We have a series of questions for your consideration:
- What are the advantages of libraries over Internet sources?
- What role(s) do libraries have in today’s classroom?
- How have you used or would like to use library resources in your teaching?
- Who can you contact to find out more about new possibilities?
February 2, 2012
Today is 2/2/12 so in the spirit of "twos" what are the two most important concepts covered in your course and in what ways a) do the students know they are important b) do the students get to practice that knowledge and c) do you assess those two concepts?
December 4, 2011
If your course materials disappeared today, how would that alter the way you teach your course, for good or for ill?
November 4, 2011
What is your area of greatest passion in your teaching and why? It may be a topic, an activity, interacting with students, anything about teaching.
How can what you teach in your courses impact the daily life of
- your students?
- your community?
- your region?
- your country?
- your world?
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