by Tim Slater | Sep 21, 2018 | Blog
If the task at hand is to create a class that results in students loving science—which I believe is a highly worthwhile goal—what should your formal course goals be? Most college guidelines strongly suggest, if not require, that course syllabi explicitly list course...
by Tim Slater | Aug 31, 2018 | Blog
Get Better Teaching Evaluations by Changing Your Attitude In science, that which is measured is paid attention to. As a result, your course will benefit if it has an end in mind, improving the end-of-term student evaluations of your course. The super-secret pathway...
by Tim Slater | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
Multiple-choice exams are common practice in many college science courses, and there are countless strategies lying around about how to speed up the processes of writing, scoring, and recording student performance. One of the most common strategies used to grade...
by Tim Slater | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog
Novice learners—your students—depend on you to have sufficient knowledge of the course content and its structure to build a clear and easy-to-follow pathway to successfully learning the course material. Students have little idea what actually learning material in your...
by Tim Slater | Sep 26, 2017 | Blog
As an expert educator, you’ve learned a lot about what works with students and what does not. But how do you get those ideas out to the broader community, build your credibility, and enhance your CV? The numerous ways to get out your ideas might surprise you. It is...
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