Teaching Tips from Carleton Faculty
Unsure how to break the ice in your freshman seminar? Having trouble keeping those spring term seniors engaged in the class? Chances are, you aren't alone. Your colleagues have doubtlessly faced similar problems in their classes, and developed their own individual techniques for dealing with such challenges. Here, we present the best of the Carleton faculty's combined teaching knowledge: each educator highlights a strategy or tool they find highly effective in combating some problem they encounter in the classroom, and explain how and why the method is successful. We've divided the tips into a couple broad subject headings below, but feel free to contribute tips outside of these initial areas. Good luck!
Beginning and Ending Classes:
- Quirky Facts and Ticket to the Final (contributed by Alison Kettering)
Class Readings:
- Developing Careful Reading of Difficult Texts (contributed by Gary Iseminger)
Class Presentations:
- Planning Student Presentations (contributed by Laura Goering)
Engaging the Class:
- Keeping Students Engaged (contributed by Trish Ferrett)
- Bringing the Remote Expert to Class on the Speakerphone (contributed by John Ramsay)
- The Course Webpage (contributed by Phil Camill)
- Teach Only What Is Worth Knowing (contributed by Frank Morral)