Episode 10: The First Day of Class
We get ready for the first day of Fall semester with three L&S instructors, who share how they prepare for the first class and create an inclusive classroom atmosphere.
Supporting Teaching, Learning, and Technology in the College of Letters and Science
We get ready for the first day of Fall semester with three L&S instructors, who share how they prepare for the first class and create an inclusive classroom atmosphere.
Created by Laura Schmidli and edited by Maria Widmer. During the pandemic, many instructors valued the interactive features of videoconference tools, like breakout rooms, integrated chat, emoji and reactions, and polling. These tools allowed students to connect, react, and participate and offered instructors a sense of student engagement during remote class sessions. Whether a class …
This bonus episode includes an extended conversation with John D. Dunne, Distinguished Professor of Contemplative Humanities in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
In this episode, we explore the connection between belonging, student wellbeing, and inclusive teaching with John Dunne and Tony Chambers.
In our first episode, Eric Wilcots is interviewed by Shirin Malekpour. They discuss the diverse student body at UW-Madison and adopting inclusive teaching principles to ensure student success.
Created by Laura Schmidli and edited by Jonathan Klein. Imagine a student attends your office hours and expresses frustration at performing poorly on an exam – despite hours of preparation. One way to troubleshoot with the student is to focus on the quality, rather than duration, of their preparation. What did they do to prepare? …
See tips for making your Assignments in Canvas and your grading process more transparent to students. Clear expectations and processes help students understand how to do well in your course.
Consider how you may or may not use generative AI in your classroom. Review steps for thinking through AI on your own, and see examples of how you might use AI with your students to get them thinking about concerns and capabilities.
See strategies for reviewing, making sense of, and taking action based on feedback you receive from students through mid-semester and end-of-semester evaluations.
Review 12 strategies for making your syllabus more inclusive for students. Pick one strategy to focus on next.
See recommendations, frameworks, and examples for how to write clear program, course, or learning goals.
If you award extra credit to students, it is important to plan your overall Canvas grading structure to account for this early in the semester. See three ways to set up your Canvas course to award extra credit.