Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL): Articles
Mindset
- Storytelling to Cultivate Growth Mindset and Social BelongingEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
English and Composition
- Local Landmark Analysis EssayEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
- Roleplaying During Grading Conferences: Using Fictional Scenarios to Increase Student Writing Self-EfficacyEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
- It Takes a Village: Institution and Community Resources for Experiential LearningEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
Pedagogy
- Five Strategies to Inspire and Facilitate Learning, by Tony HolandHolland offers five proven strategies for improving student learning, persistence, and completion, especially important for teaching gateway courses. These include the importance of assessing students' perceptions (to increase positive perceptions which can lead to persistence), providing clear learning objectives, utilizing virtual lecture videos, administering frequent formative assessments, and employing early and intrusive interventions.
- 67 Teaching Mistakes (compiled by Tony Holland)This article is a compilation of suggestions to improve teaching from faculty who teach at a wide variety of institutions throughout the country. Faculty might use the suggestions for goal-setting.
- Don't Be Alone During Office Hours by Richard Freishtat, PhDThis article from the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Teaching and Learning offers five suggestions faculty can use to encourage students to make use of office hours.
- Teaching Large Lecture Classes (from the the Univ of California, Berkeley)Ten things you can do to make your large lecture course (or any class for that matter!) more manageable and effective with reduced resources.
- Paying or Gaining: Who's Responsible for Attention, by Rita-Marie Conrad, PhDDr. Rita-Marie Conrad from the University of California at Berkeley offers a number of suggestions on getting and keeping students' attention.
- Analogy-Enhanced Pedagogy: Class Activities to Engage Students in LearningEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
- Peer Instructional Review SessionsEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
- Engagement and Relevance: Meeting Students Where They AreEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
- Student Generated Creative Exercises: An End-of-Semester ProjectEngaged Student Learning: Essays on Best Practices in the University System of Georgia
(Chemistry focus, but applicable to multiple disciplines) - Coaching (Teaching) for Excellence and Making Student Retention a PriorityThese are two brief articles on teaching as coaching and making retention a priority in teaching.