Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload

1. Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload In Large Classes

2. Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload Key Issues • Writing • Testing • Grading • Queries • Individual Student Progress

3. Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload Key Strategies • Writing • Micro-themes • Group Writing • Testing • SacCT- Exams • Clicker

4. Maintaining Standards while Managing Workload Key Strategies (cont) • Grading • TA- units for advanced students • Assignment drop box (SacCT) • Queries • Rubric and clear Syllabus • Virtual office hours: Skype, SacCT chat • Individual Progress • Gradebook (SacCT) • Short in-class assignments: Fishbowl, 1 min writing

5. Engagement: Strategies • Getting familiar with your students • Individual and group photos on SacCT; Learning names • Playing music 5-min before the class. • Getting engagement before class • Fishbowl

6. Engagement: Strategies Cont. • Classroom engagement • Interest/motivation through discussion with peers • Think-pair-share-double pair • Quick write and pair critique • Top 3 questions for discussion; give students some control over the class content

7. Tech Part By geeks

8. Effective Strategies • Integrating Technologies • Enhancing the effectiveness of presentation • Inspiration for organizing presentation and making it available in multimedia format • Acrobat Viewer with links to other documents • Video Clips • Pen Tablets • SacCT for organizing contents and having them available online.

9. Effective Strategies • Integrating Technologies (cont’d) • Testing and Assessment Techniques • Pre-lecture quizzes • Clickers • SacCT Assessments • Networking • Interacting with multiple groups, e.g., group projects outside classroom • iMeet • Elluminate