…hold office hours; post them on your door, put them on the syllabus, position them prominently on the course website, announce them in class. Have a chair ready. Put away…
…syllabus or planned for class—they just grow, evolve, get out of hand, and sometimes mutate. Frequently you can’t even get them started. And you aren’t helped very much by textbooks…
…article on reserve in the library, a chapter in the course textbook, a novel included in the syllabus. Often an apt metaphor or analogy developed in a lecture or tossed…
…willing to help a student who’s struggling to answer. Some changes have occurred in what counts for participation, most notably attendance. I recently saw a syllabus that also added “staying…
…the syllabus. Sharing essential information many times and in many places, teaching basic student skills, then holding students accountable to correctly act on that information will hopefully help them become…
…explicitly address the role of reading in the course. Maybe it’s just a blurb on your syllabus or, better yet, a conversation early in the course. But be sure to…
…equally in preparation, presentation, and assessment. We create the thrust of the class, develop the course objectives, select the texts, construct the syllabus and procedures, and plan each class session…
…together to design their syllabus, class assignments, and schedule. Teachers should consider using the online collaboration tools their students will use during this planning stage to familiarize themselves with the…
…midway, and several were close to graduation. The pinnacle project for the course was a curriculum-related paper due at the end of the term. The syllabus reserved a class prior…
…dynamics of delivery and presentation, there are often comments that show students did not read the syllabus or missed announcements in class. These are easily rectified (e.g., “Dr. G can…
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