Smartest Student and Instructor
Shared by Isabel Quintana Wulf
With inspiration from/credit to Transforming Teaching Through Learning Seminar, Lansing Community College, MI
This activity is a course-starter activity designed to come up with a Student/ Instructor contract setting basic expectations for classroom behavior, preparedness, and interactions for the semester ahead.
Shared by Joanna Howard
This is the method I use for making sure students don’t lose their journal entries throughout the course of the semester.
Shared by Nicole Hancock
With inspiration from/credit to a Freirean Pedagogy class at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
This piece describes my process for getting students to collaboratively establish course policies during the first few days of each class.
Shared by Elizabeth Baldridge
No Explanations Required (NERd) coupons are extension coupons that students can use on most assignments during the semester. They take away the excuse-screening element of the job and encourage students to make deliberate choices about when to use extensions and when to take zeroes.
Shared by Elizabeth Baldridge
With inspiration from/credit to Stephanie Scott
I use these coupons in three ways:
- I give them to students who do something extraordinary, like going above and beyond to help a classmate.
- I design special (fun) writing and reading challenges for which the winners receive rock star points.
- In classes with awful textbooks that students are required to buy and I am required to use, I assign Rock Star Battles in which groups tackle various textbook exercises/work. All groups get points for completion, but the group that submits the highest quality work gets rock star points.
