MAINTAINING STANDARDS WHILE MANAGING

WORKLOAD

In Large Classes

Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload

Key Issues Writing Testing Grading Queries Individual Student Progress

Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload

Key Strategies Writing

Micro-themes Group Writing

Testing SacCT- Exams Clicker

Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload

Key Strategies (cont) Grading

TA- units for advanced students Assignment drop box (SacCT)

Queries Rubric and clear Syllabus Virtual office hours: Skype, SacCT chat

Individual Progress Gradebook (SacCT) Short in-class assignments: Fishbowl, 1 min

writing

Engagement: Strategies

Getting familiar with your students Individual and group photos on SacCT;

Learning names Playing music 5-min before the class.

Getting engagement before class Fishbowl

Engagement: Strategies Cont.

Classroom engagement Interest/motivation through discussion with

peers Think-pair-share-double pair Quick write and pair critique Top 3 questions for discussion; give students

some control over the class content

TECH PARTBy geeks

Effective Strategies Integrating Technologies

Enhancing the effectiveness of presentation Inspiration for organizing presentation

and making it available in multimedia format

Acrobat Viewer with links to other documents

Video Clips Pen Tablets SacCT for organizing contents and

having them available online.

Effective Strategies Integrating Technologies (cont’d)

Testing and Assessment Techniques Pre-lecture quizzes Clickers SacCT Assessments

Networking Interacting with multiple groups, e.g.,

group projects outside classroom iMeet Elluminate