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Idea Summaries
Teaching For Success, Vol. 19, No.5 Issue Summary
In This Issue:
• The New Surge in E-Learning: How Does It Add Up? p. 1-2
Community colleges nationwide now enroll nearly half of all online college students, and in Pennsylvania, Drexel University’s online program has grown in the last five years from 100 to 5,700 students, nearly 20 percent of University enrollment. What's going on here…?
• Optimize Instruction with a simple teaching sequence, p. 1
Teaching in formal educational settings is a problem. Why? It’s time constrained, and time is the overarching constraint. Time restrictions generate the need for carefully orchestrated…
• How to Quickly Build Online Class Cohesion, p. 3
Here’s how to build class cohesion quickly and easily right from the start. Here’s what I might write:
• Harnessing the Learning Power of "Breaking It Down" p. 3
Driving away from the store, these two incidents mixed together and showed me a good way to teach math. Just as the technique of “breaking it down” and concentrating on only one step…
• Top Ten Online Teaching Tips, pp. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Working in an online environment forces a teacher to design courses in a logical, structured, easy-to-follow format. Flaws in course design become more critical when…
• How to Teach Critical Thinking More Effectively pp. 5-8
In a classroom application, critical thinking is best defined as exploring questions about and solutions for issues that are not clearly defined and for which there are…
• Bonus Gold Application Section, p 9
This section now has interactive fields for entering your ideas and application of ideas. You may save your comments and/or print them.
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Teaching For Success, Vol. 19, No. 4 Issue Summary
In This Issue:
• How GEGA Super Charges Learning, p. 1-2
In my practice of teaching teachers (professors) how to teach creatively and become the best teachers, or “genius teachers,” I always…
• For the Love of Teaching, p. 1
They were all inspiring, tough, fair, knowledgeable, optimistic, caring, and confident, but not…
• A Survival Exercise for the Google Age, p. 3
When she received the papers, nearly every one was filled with misinformation. And virtually every paper in the class was packed with the same misinformation! What was going on? And what can you do about it?
• Mystery Guest, Sign In Please p. 3 (Quick Tip Contest Winner)
A weekly visit from a mystery guest, in the form of a historic figure, will be a popular addition to your online classroom. Here's how to add this feature to your class...
• Essay Writing 101: Don’t Stump the Chump! p. 4
One of the thorniest obstacles to teaching freshman essay writing is convincing student writers to consider the informational, contextual, and organizational needs of their audience. Too often their essays even stump the chump…
• From Strangers to a Learning Community, p 5
(Brilliant Idea Contest Winner)
She took me aside and said, “I was in your class about 11 years ago, and I wanted you to know I still have that card we did. What was it that caused this students to benefit from this class even 11 years after she took it?
• The Amazing Personal Response Journal Enriches Learning, p. 6
Record, review, and share your responses. They will help you learn new information, formulate questions, and retain key points. Use at least three of the suggestions below to guide you to implementing this terrific instructional activity.
• Bonus Gold Section: Success Through Action, pp. 7-8
A practical work section where you can review, plan for implementation, and inventory your thoughts on all the Big Ideas in this issue.
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Teaching For Success, Vol. 19, No. 3 Issue Summary
In This Issue:
• Must-Know UID Concepts—An Important Development for Teaching Diverse Learners, p. 1-2
Universal Instructional Design (UID) is a fantastic way of creating a curriculum or a teaching method that feeds the needs of your diverse learners. It takes into account the different multi-sensory teaching modes that best address the various differences in the way students think and learn. At last, there is way to impart even abstract concepts and skills without …
• For the Love of Teaching, p. 1
Teaching For Success is not about “quick and easy” although some ideas are truly that. It’s about improving a little everyday, and being willing to be fully engaged, surprised more, and…
• Using the Power of Early-success Teaching Strategies, pp. 3-4
I looked at a sea of blank stares for about 30 seconds, until this young man slowly raised his hand halfway up and softly explained it all, clearly enough so the entire class could...
• Generations 101: Meet Your Students, Characteristics Table, p. 3
The First Time in History Four Generations Work and Learn Together! See the table of generational characteristics to get a broad handle on this fascinating population analysis.
• Quick Tip 1: Review Pattern Maximizes Knowledge Retention p. 4
Good students have learned to review regularly; poor students have never developed this important learning…
• Quick Tip2: How to Structure Knowledge, p. 4
There are five common ways to structure knowledge. If you teach for success, you should have these structures clearly in mind, and ready to use to help learners progress more…
• Teaching: It’s a Brave New World, pp. 5-6
Like it or not, the reality is that we live and work in a very competitive world, and the race is on. The choices are to…
• Bonus Gold Section: Success Through Action Steps (Now Expanded),
pp. 7-8
Learning new ideas is terrific, but without application, the good is lost. See the suggested list of simple and workable actions you might take to get the most out of the ideas discussed in this issue of TFS.
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