Summer Institute Session 3: Metacognitive Strategies To become self-directed learners, students must learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan their approach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed....
Alignment: Journey to Student Learning "Assessments should reveal how well students have learned what we want them to learn while instruction ensures that they learn it. For this to occur, assessments, learning objectives, and instructional strategies need to be...
"For feedback to have maximum effect, students have to be expected to use it to improve their work and, in many cases, taught how to do so." --Saphier et al (2008) Feedback is an essential part of teaching and learning, and we’re all familiar with the general...
Leveraging Your Grades Area to Provide Meaningful Feedback "To craft teacher feedback that leads to learning, put yourself in the student’s shoes" Brookhart (2007). We typically think of the MyCourses Grades area as our course's "gradebook" because it's where we see...
Summer Institute Session 2: Worked Examples "A worked example is a step-by-step demonstration of how to perform a task or how to solve a problem" (Clark, Nguyen, Sweller, 2006, p. 190). In the second session of the inaugural day for Summer Institute 2022,...
Summer Institute Day 3 Session 1: Multiple Exposures "Forgetting is a feature, not a bug." - Popov, Marevic, Rummel, & Reder, 2019 3 Strategies for Helping Students Remember What They Learn We often think of forgetting as a failure in memory, but in truth, the...
