New Educators' Orientation (NEO) - Engaging Students Workshop
Resources for the NEO Engaging Students Workshop
New Educators' Orientation (NEO) - Engaging Students Workshop, Fall 2016
Presentation Resources
Understanding Your Learner
- First Day of Class Activities that Create a Climate for Learning
- Icebreaker Activities
- Carnegie Mellon Eberly Center: Recognize Who Your Students Are
- Carnegie Mellon Eberly Center: Theory and Research-Based Principles of Learning
- Carnegie Mellon Eberly Center: Teaching Principles
- Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
- Mindset: Test Your Mindset
- Poll Everywhere - Text messaging polling tool
Active Learning
- Flipped Classroom Philosophy & Data from UW ECE431 Instructor Barry Van Veen
- Active Learning Strategies from the University of Minnesota
- Active Learning Strategies on a Continuum of Complexity
- Instructional Strategies for Online Courses
- Leading Discussions
- Facilitating Labs
- Highly Recommended Books:
- Barkley, E. F., Cross, K. P., & Major, C. H. (2014). Collaborative learning techniques: A handbook for college faculty
- Barkley, E. F. (2009). Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty.
Instructional Design & Lesson Planning
- Backward Design and Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 1996, 2008)
- Simple Introduction to Backward Design and Alignment (Youtube Video)
- Design for Significant Learning (Dee Fink)
- Writing Effective Learning Objectives
- Creating Learning Objectives (Youtube Video)
- Bloom's Taxonomy - Levels of Knowing and Understanding
- Bloom's Action Verbs for Writing Learning Objectives (pdf)
- A Primer on Writing Learner-Centered Course Goals and Learning Objectives (pdf)