Teaching Tips
CETL Teaching Tips are a collection of “Aha!” moments from workshops, conferences, and teaching and learning faculty development that helps us better facilitate group work, engage more students in discussions, reflection our faculty roles, and more. These tips come from faculty at Oakland University and across the country. For questions, comments, or feedback about these tips, contact Christina Moore ([email protected]).
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Creativity in the Classroom: Conceiving, Devising, and Creating for Student Success
Structured Debates and Other Activities for Cultivating Curiosity and Open-mindedness
How to Support Students (and Yourself) Going into the Holidays
Connect Course to Values: Meaning and Purpose Boost Academic Success
Teaching Veteran and Military-Connected Students
Longing for Belonging: How Social Belonging Fosters Well-being and Success
Bringing Place Into Your Classroom Space
How to Make Every Student Feel Seen: Practical Tips for Student Validation
Using Growth Mindset Messaging for First-Generation Student Success
Mentorship From Award-Winning OU Faculty
Teaching in 10 Words: From Award-Winning OU Faculty
Interviews as an Active Learning Activity
Connecting with Students in the First Weeks
Have You Talked to Your Students about AI?
Moodle Response Templates Improve Student Responses and Speed Up Grading
Minimize Low Grades, Withdrawals, and Incompletes with Proactive Strategies
Maximizing the Usefulness of the Beginning-of-Semester Student Questionnaire
Interactive H5P Activities: Building Knowledge and Confidence
Early Prep, Smooth Semester: Tips for Getting Started
How to Conquer Email
Embracing a Growth Mindset in Teaching
Student Perspectives on Collaborating with Professors
Building Generative AI Literacy: First Steps for Faculty
Give Context for Your Course Evaluations
Streamlining Recommendation Writing with a Letter Inventory Guide
In-The-Moment Responses to Mental Health Challenges
Teaching Through Tragedy and Conflict
Play to Learn: Adding the Transformative Benefits of Gamification
Building a Culture of Well-being in Your Courses
Teaching Critical Thinking (and Ignoring) with SIFT
Recognizing and Addressing Student Mental Health Concerns
A Student’s Perspective: Building Confidence in Student Writers
Increase Reading Motivation and Metacognition with Social Annotation
Beginning-of-Semester Moodle Productivity Tips
End Your Semester Using Moodle Grading Features
Improving Lesson Content Using Pseudents
That’s a Wrap: Ending Your Semester Intentionally
Promoting Your Courses: Take Charge of Your Course Enrollments
Small Steps to Start Implementing a Trauma-Informed Practice in Your Course
Why You May Want to Roll the Dice and Introduce Game-based Learning Into Your Course
From a “Student Deficit” to “Course Deficit” Approach to Addressing Equity Gaps
Using a Collaborative Reflection Tool to Guide and Model Group Projects
Meme-ingful Teaching: Utilizing and Incorporating Memes in the Classroom
Teaching in 10 Words
Jumpstart Student Engagement and Curiosity with ABC
Increase Large Class Engagement with Mentimeter Polling
Early Feedback Leads to Student Success
QTR: Quality Time Remaining
Preparing Courses with AI in Mind
Creating an Intentional Communication System
Five Ideas for Seeing the Syllabus with Fresh Eyes
Syllabus Updates in Practice, Policy, and Personality
How to Prevent Dogs (and Computers) from Eating Student Work
Transparent Teaching in Three Simple Steps
Peer Paired Problems: Large-Class Active Learning & Metacognition Activity
Teaching in 10 Words: Celebrating Our Teaching Identities
15 Minutes to Improve Next Semester
Learning Communities: “With a Little Help from My Faculty Friends”
Where Are We With HyFlex? HyFlex Updates
An OU Student’s Perspective on Engaging Students
What Would You Do? How to Be Prepared
Use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in an Introductory Psychology Class
Behind the Scenes of Academic Misconduct: Patterns in Student Experience
Reciprocity, Empowerment and Trust: The Foundation of Student-Faculty Collaboration
Faculty Burnout & Sustainability
ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence: A Lesson on Assessment Design and Talking with Students about Academic Integrity
Knowing “Who’s in Class” Supports Inclusive Teaching
Building Community Differently
Quick & Easy Formative Assessments with H5P
Tips for Planning Winter 2023 Teaching and Learning
Setting Up a Productivity Calendar
On Being Wrong: Cultivating Inclusion, Humility, and a Growth Mindset
Procrastination: Changing Small Habits Has Big Payoffs
Collaborative Testing: Maintaining Rigor While Increasing Critical Thinking
Improving Unproctored Online Assessments: Simple Methods to Help Maintain Academic Integrity
Taking a New Approach to Get Students to Come to Your Office Hours
Normalizing and Promoting Academic Success Support
Getting the Most Out of Faculty Feedback
Teaching in 10 Words
Using Extra Credit Effectively
Early Feedback Is Crucial: How to Refer Students Quickly and Easily
Thrown into Learning: Experience Before Delivery
Tips for Planning Fall 2022 Teaching and Learning
Inclusive Audio Learning with Podcasters Kate and Dan
Executive Function: Planning for Learning Success
Stepping in as a Student: Increasing Teaching Presence in an Asynchronous Online Course Banner
Teaching Presence in an Interactive Virtual Office
Beyond Inclusive Practices and Teaching Tips
Quantifying Class Participation: Log Participation in the Moodle Grade Book
Characteristics of Effective Feedback
Converting to a Low-Cost or No-Cost Course
Empathy, Inclusion, and Reciprocity in the Writing Classroom: Perspectives on Labor-Based Grading Contracts
Solutions Journalism: Covering news from a problem-solving lens
Where Are We With Accessibility?
Social Media for Teaching and Learning
Managing Difficult Moments
Teaching with Flexible Meetings, Due Dates, and Activities
Mindfulness Strategies
Active Listening in Small Groups
Help Students Build Empathy Before They Engage with the Community
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Kresge Library, Room 430
100 Library Drive
Rochester, Michigan 48309-4479
(location map)
(248) 370-2751
[email protected]
100 Library Drive
Rochester, Michigan 48309-4479
(location map)
(248) 370-2751
[email protected]
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Kresge Library, Room 430
100 Library Drive
Rochester, Michigan 48309-4479
(location map)
(248) 370-2751
100 Library Drive
Rochester, Michigan 48309-4479
(location map)
(248) 370-2751