A well written syllabus is the beginning of a successful learning experience for your students. In this workshop we’ll discuss how to write a student-centered syllabus that will provide the anchoring necessary for a successful semester for you and your students.

When you teach, you do more than cover content; you also help students develop thinking processes specific to your discipline. Teaching disciplinary thinking certainly presents challenges, and you may suspect that there are some topics/processes that are often problematic for students. We offer customized departmental workshops in which you and your colleagues use an established framework (Middendorf & Pace, 2004) to critically analyze your assumptions and teaching practices. We will work with you to explore student thinking and identify barriers to learning.

Do you find grading to be time consuming and frustrating? Do you spend hours writing comments on student papers but are doubtful that your comments are implemented, or even read? We can help. In this workshop will give you strategies on how to grade efficiently and effectively.

In this workshop we can help you design instruction that will keep your students engaged, focused and learning throughout the class period.

There are several myths floating around about student ratings. In this workshop we will highlight which assumptions about student ratings are supported by research, and which are not.

This workshop will help you create slides that are effective and engaging.

Multiple choice tests are easy to score but difficult to write well, particularly if you want to assess critical thinking. In this workshop you’ll get some tips to help you write effective multiple choice questions at a variety of levels. You’ll also learn how to use the statistical report provided by Scanning Operations to improve your question-writing.