Friday, November 20, 2009

Over a cup of coffee: November 20th edition

The Chronicle of Higher Ed. features this year’s Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Professors of the Year award winners.

Both Faculty Focus and Inside Higher Ed. give advice on getting students to complete their reading.

The Teaching Professor discusses an idea for creating an engaging classroom environment: a course mini-conference.

Faculty members at Indiana University come up with new ideas for how to get students to assemble and interpret information like historians.

During the break be sure to check out the IDEA center’s POD-IDEA Center Notes on Instruction for new teaching ideas and strategies.