Black Hawk College Teaching/Learning Center

Teaching Strategies
Topics in this series focus on specific teaching strategies that promote student learning.

Topic	Description	Resources
Active & Engaged Learning (15 Ideas in 15 Days)	This event is a non-event…it is one idea/mini-article each day for 15 days, coming via email to your Inbox. Each idea will be something easy to implement in your classes; ideas for promoting active and engaged learning. Sign up to receive the 15 emails and then watch them arrive! Opportunities to comment, share or ask questions will also be available via our blog.	Assorted resources linked from the 15 Ideas Blog: Double-entry Journal Template
Effective Feedback to Students: What Does It Look Like?	As you think about the best way for you to provide feedback to your students, do you consider what would improve learning, sustain the students’ confidence, and be reasonably efficient for you? This session explores a range of effective strategies that faculty use in providing feedback that meet those expectations, such as feedback on written work (rubrics), performance (oral feedback/guidance), computer-based answers to practice questions (automated feedback), in-class critical thinking discussion (on-the-fly, feedback)! Teaching and Learning Circle format.
Critical Thinking: Diverse Approaches	Critical thinking is a key component of general education; it’s essential to successful performance on the job in most fields; it’s a challenge to address in any one semester class. It also looks different from one field to another. This session explores how critical thinking is defined in various disciplines, how it is approached by faculty in these disciplines (examples), and how it is assessed. Teaching and Learning Circle format.
Student Presentations	Learn about a host of ways to structure, manage, assess, and integrate student presentations into your classes. Discussion centers around how to utilize student presentations in speech classes (where the presentation is key) or in non-speech classes where learning content is key and efficiency is an issue. Q & A and lively conversation will ensue throughout the session.
Group Projects and Virtual Teams: A Real-world Experience in a Class Context	Have you considered utilizing group projects to promote student engagement and learning in your classes? Is the ability to function well on a team an important skill for your students to acquire prior to getting a job? This session focuses on effective ways to organize, facilitate, and assess such group activities, keeping in mind the various learning styles of our student “generations.”	Group Projects and Virtual Teams.doc
Cheating and Academic Integrity	Three faculty and the Director of BHC's Independent Learning Center (and Testing center) discuss an issue that concerns us all. Each panel member will share their experiences and strategies for preventing and handling cheating and other academic integrity issues through an active panel discussion. Time is allowed for questions, answers and sharing with the entire audience, as well.	Cheating and Academic Integrity Tips, as shared by panel
Orienting the Online Student	If you teach online, you have probably noticed the number of students who drop or fall behind. Orientation to online learning and to your online class is one of the secrets to reducing this problem. This session will provide many potential ways for using already-created orientation templates and materials, including links to relevant modules in the BHC Online Information Center.
Engaging Strategies for Online Learning	Most of us would agree that interactivity is an important part of most types of learning. In learning online, it is the secret to better retention, reduced procrastination, optimum learning, and higher student satisfaction. This session will share dozens of engaging strategies for promoting instructor/student interaction, student/student interaction and student/content interaction. We’ll share examples and discuss ways to manage interaction so that it doesn’t take over your life!	Early Term Success Strategies Online Engagement Online IS Guidem
Web-enhanced Teaching	This Web-enhanced class covers key topics related to teaching Web-enhanced classes (sometimes called blended or hybrid learning). The class was developed for Web-enhanced delivery during the summer of 2005. It includes 1 face-to-face session which launches the course and five online modules on Best Practices, Online Discussions, Interactive Content, Learning Styles and Virtual Group Projects. All modules contain online discussion components. A hay-day face-to-face version of this workshop is also available.	Web-enhanced Webliographies Web Enhanced Online Games and Activities Web-enhanced Webquests
Hybrid Teaching Series	Hybrid Teaching: What's New and Is it for you? Hybrid Teaching Introduction Hybrid Definition and Programmatic Process Hybrid Course Models and the Before, During and After Concept. (Sessions 2 & 3 covered in a joint session.) Hybrid Course Models: Integrated Active Learning Strategies for the Online Portion of Your Class Hybrid Teaching Online Focus Basic Elements of Instructional Design (Fink) Holistic View of Active Learning (Fink) Situational Factors Worksheet Active Learning Resources/Ideas/URLs ActiveLearning Resources Bb and WebCT Tools Digital Learning Objects: What are they? Where to find them? Digital Learning Objects: How to Use Them? Online Instructional Strategies Online Games Web 2.0 Resources More Web 2.0 Resources Hybrid Teaching Planning Templates Template Template Template Hybrid Course Models: Integrated Strategies for the Face-to-Face Portion of Your Class. Hybrid Teaching, Face-to-face Focus Student Preparedness My Reading Habits in College Using Groups in Face-to-Face Hybrid Classes Types and Best Practices for Key Class Elements Assessment in College Teaching Feedback and Assessment in a Nutshell Sample of Poor File Design for Online Reading Sample of Better File Design for Online Reading* Best Practices for Exemplary Online Teaching *Assume the underlines are links to a glossary definition, a tutorial, an external Web site with more information, a pop-up bit of information that appears when the reader hovers his mouse over the word, an internal Web page with additional information, or etc.
Adapting F2F Activities to Web-enhanced or Online Delivery Return to Top	Whether you teach online, Web-enhanced, or face-to-face, you have probably given some thought to how you might use the Web to help your students learn better. This session’s focus is on the features of WebCT and most other course management systems (Have you heard of Blackboard? Publisher-created Web sites? Moodle?) and how you can use them in a variety of ways to promote student engagement and student learning. We’ll work from good face-to-face teaching examples and illustrate how they can be adapted to Web-enhanced or online learning too.
Is there a Place for Synchronous Events in Online Learning?	Synchronous events using collaborative tools such as Elluminate and Internet radio can add motivational interest and pedagogical value to an online class. This session discusses and/ or demonstrates these tools and talks about what’s involved in using the tools (both free), the pros/cons/unique features of each, and how they might be integrated into an online class in unique ways.	Collab. Synchronous Tools Elluminate Internet Radio
Options for Online Office Hours	Offering online office hours is a part of most online classes. Hear the pros/cons/ways that you can use such tools as instant messaging, chat, Elluminate, Skype, message boards, etc., for office hours or online tutoring in your classes.
Advanced Teaching Topics for DL	Strategies for teaching on our DL interactive television system are explored in this session. Topics may include developing and using visuals, promoting interaction with remote sites, orienting students to learning via ITV, building community adapting face-to-face strategies to the ITV environment, etc.	ITV Teaching Tips and Resources
Step-by-Step Instructional Handouts	Do you have the need to help your students learn or follow step-by-step procedures, such as doing a science lab, using software to create something, operating a piece of equipment or tools, completing an assignment or task, or carrying out a process? This session will help you develop top-notch handouts (or Web-based documents) to help your students complete the procedure correctly or learn the steps prior to a test. We’ll help you learn about best practices for technical writing/layout of such handouts, and then actually work on making one for your classes during the session using digital cameras, digital camcorders, a scanner, and Windows screen captures.
Innovative Internet Instructions	8–week online class, sponsored by Sauk Valley CC. Sauk Valley Community College’s Instructional Technology Department has created a FREE 8–week, 5–7 hours per week time commitment, online course for new or experienced faculty who are interested in online or Web–enhanced teaching. Four modules focus on effective strategies for teaching with the Internet, course design, and best practices. They have invited our faculty to participate! One section is offered each semester and one in the summer.
Comparison of Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain		Comparison of Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
Team Teaching	The Alternative Delivery Committee has researched various team teaching models, benefits, tips and strategies, and resources. If teaching a class with a colleague appeals to you, discover the various models, approaches, and lessons learned that others have employed successfully.	Team Teaching Workshop.pps (Melissa Hebert)

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