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Open Classroom Week for Faculty
From February 26 to March 3, some new "students" will be sitting in NMC classrooms. These students will actually be faculty participating in Open Classroom Week. This is a CIE-sponsored initiative to promote contemplation and conversation about teaching and learning...
“Use Heads Up” Questions
Student Engagement Aids Text Comprehension. Try this “Heads-up Questions” Strategy. How many different ways have you tried to prepare students for the class activities? How do you get students to participate in discussions and not always have the same students...
Questioning Strategies to Encourage Student Engagement
Creating a purpose for reading or viewing focuses students’ attention on important concepts in the text or recorded lectures instructors use to guide them. As academics, instructors readily pull information from sources with confidence while students may not share...
Help Your Students Read Their Textbooks
Last semester, one of my students came to me for help with another class. She felt that the tests included material that was never covered in class. And even the stuff that was covered in class she felt she often struggled to understand fully. When I asked her how she...