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Jigsaw Technique Course Design Tutorial

Each member of the group is responsible for teaching the rest of the group what he/she has learned from his/her team assignment. The group then puts all of the pieces together and completes a group task that can only be answered once all of the team pieces are together (hence the name "jigsaw"). This latter part is crucial to the technique.

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What Is A Studio Classroom? Studio Teaching In The

Studio teaching is an approach to teaching that can be used to replace the standard lecture approach. It is based on sound pedagogical principles, is very flexible, is popular with students, and leads to superior learning in most instances. What are the characteristics of a studio classroom? There are few lectures. Students work in groups to learn.

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Course Platforms For Teaching Online SERC

Course Platforms for Teaching Online by Eleanour Snow, University of South Florida, University of Texas Perry Sampson, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan authored as part of the 2010 workshop, Teaching Geoscience Online - A Workshop for Digital Faculty

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Physical Geography Courses

This is a survey course designed to cover key concepts in physical geography, from climate change to landscape processes to map interpretation. The course has no laboratory component but includes a variety of in-class activities to provide applications of course content. Course Type: Intro Level: Physical Geography Intro Level. Course Size: 15-30.

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Tips For Designing Online Courses Online Teaching

Online course design is rooted in the same solid principles of face-to-face teaching, but requires additional considerations. Start with the same pedagogic principles of overall course design, such as the Cutting Edge course design philosophy. Set out goals for the course: At the end of the course, I want my students to be able to

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Virtual Soil Classification Activities

Summary After watching a video, students classify soils using a ternary soil diagram and run online computer models to see how the proportion of sand, silt and clay affect drainage. Students then use the ternary soil diagram to predict how real soils (found from online soil maps) will behave in terms of runoff and infiltration. Used this activity?

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Classroom Teaching Style Survey

Classroom teaching style survey. In the six items below decide where you fall on a 1-5 scale with the characteristics associated with the range of scores given below that. Keep track of the total score after adding scores from each of the items. Use the total survey score to classify yourself according to the vignettes below.

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Oral Presentations Student Learning: Observing And Assessing

Oral presentations are often used to assess student learning from student individual and group research projects. Oral Presentation Assessment Tips for Instructors: Oral Presentation Tips and Peer Evaluation Questions Laura Goering, Carleton College, developed these tips and student evaluation template for the Carleton College Perlman Center for ...

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