A comprehensive guide to using group work in courses. This resource contains strategies planning, facilitating, and evaluating effective group assignments and activities, as well as quick tips for some common challenges in group work.
Keywords: group work, assignments, active learning, collaboration.
This is a guide for both the instructor submitting student work samples, and the reviewer evaluating the instructor’s graded student work samples.
A description of the process for writing or revising course-specific policies, and examples of communication, technology, and in-class work policies.
This resource is your step-by-step guide to begin a conversation with the student in a way that shows you care. You don’t need to be a therapist, but you can be kind and supportive while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
Use of social media platforms in academic courses. Specifically, considering requiring students to post on social media platforms that are not secured by USC, such as through Shibboleth verification.
A comparison chart of test question types that outlines the purpose of each question type, or why you would elect to use that type of question on a test. The chart also includes tips for writing each type of question. The set of reflection prompts can be used as a final check of each question you have designed.
A teaching statement is a written reflection by a faculty member on their teaching experience. This document is a guide for reviewing a faculty peer’s teaching statement. The guide can be adjusted to accommodate school-specific requirements. Faculty preparing their teaching statements for review should have access to the associated template prior to their statement submission.
A sample form for use by students when they are observing other students’ class presentations, focusing on constructive suggestions for improvement.
An outline of the process for facilitating an icebreaker activity in class, and several icebreaker formats that can be used in onground and online courses.
Use this template to guide the content of your Teaching Statement.
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