Finding Out What Students Know We hope the first week went smoothly and your classes are off to an exciting start. Add/drop ended yesterday; rosters (we hope) have stabilized; and now we’re getting to know our students. In addition to learning more about our students as people, we also need to get a sense of what […]
A Promising Start to the Semester
A Promising Syllabus – and a Syllabus Clinic Today Happy New Year! There’s a fresh semester ahead of us. If one of your resolutions is to build an even more galvanizing learning experience for your students, your syllabus—the learning guide for your course—deserves a fresh take, too. A “promising syllabus ” (like the one here) invites […]