Mixing it up in our teaching

Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas about mixing it up in our teaching. Podcast notes Teaching classes repeatedly Advantage of knowing where students typically get stuck Dr. Chrissy Spencer spoke about this when describing her broken-up cases in episode 25, when she just “happens” to have a slide that clarifies a student’s question Reinforcing a difficult concept Advertising response function in my Principles of Marketing class Not all  understand the idea of the law of diminishing returns by the time they get to the course Would be the ideal situation for an interactive online module something like the scenario manager in Excel (under data, what-if, scenario manager) Did the typical think-pair-share Two truths and a tie exercise Using the Attendance2 app to facilitate the random calling on of students Applying learning to something students know well Lessons in PR from our university Standard 2.2 from accreditor (whole must be greater than the parts) Going outside Self assessment on theory X and theory Y What things do you see that I do that are theory X Steps to avoid cheating on exams Latecomers need to call to be marked present for the day What things do you see that I do that are theory Y Self-directed learning during the week Bulls and bears game PollEverywhere quizzes via cell phones in class No anonymity any longer However, I was then able to give them the opportunity to indicate how they would like to be treated as an employee Recommendation Remind app – now has text chat, but with office hours