Resources
Creating effective and engaging learning experiences has too often been viewed as an uninspiring task. Shouldn’t this be where our passion as teachers comes through? Could it be we are focusing on a limited aspect of learning?
Five ideas on how to structure your course so students will stay engaged in your classroom and in the learning process.
Collaborative learning can be beneficial for your students. However, it isn't always as easy as it sounds. This tip provides some simple advice for making collaborative learning work in your class.
Activities you can use to engage your students during your lectures and how to work these activities into your class.
Students who say that they did not complete assigned readings suggested three ways that instructors might increase their motivation to complete the reading assignment.
This tip suggests ways to both promote academic inteagrity and help those struggling to avoid cheating in the wake of 21st century attitudes more accepting of cheating and technologies that can facilitate it.
Using an online writing diagnostic tool can help your students shape up their writing!
An essential lifelong skill for students is to think about their learning, or be metacognitive about it. Karen M. Kortz, Ph.D., shares three activities that help students practice this important skill.
Learn the four easy steps to conducting the questioning technique, Hands Down.
An activity called Cash Cab (based on the TV series) to promote student engagement in class and encourage homework completion outside the classroom.
Grant Coaching
The Wabash Center understands our grants program as a part of our overall teaching and learning mission. We are interested in not only awarding grants to excellent proposals, but also in enabling faculty members to develop and hone their skills as grant writers. Therefore we offer grant coaching for all faculty interested in submitting a Wabash Center Project Grant proposal.
Sarah Farmer, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Wabash Center
farmers@wabash.edu