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Rock the Classroom! Strategies for Teaching Excellence

Join the Rock the Classroom! Strategies for Teaching Excellence Professional Development Conference on June 15, 2016 at MSU Denver. Learn effective teaching strategies such as encouraging choice, creativity, and active student participation. Explore techniques for engaging students through quizzes, summaries, and syllabus design. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your teaching skills!

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Rock the Classroom! Strategies for Teaching Excellence

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  1. Rock the Classroom!Strategies for Teaching Excellence Professional Development Conference June 15, 2016MSU Denver

  2. Encourage Choice Provide a list of options and then have students choose: • The book they read • The due date of a paper or presentation • The topic of their research • Help write exam questions • Help set class norms and culture

  3. Encourage Creativity!

  4. Devil’s Advocate

  5. Scratch Quiz!

  6. 35 Word Summary • One point: The summary was 35 words (or less, but no more) • One point: The student captured the author’s message • One point: The student expressed understanding of the author’s purpose • One point: The student used complete sentences (did not list or bullet the ideas from the article) • One point: The student was concise and the summary well written

  7. Syllabus What does your syllabus say about your course? Highly structured, lots of rules? or inviting, enthusiastic and offering choices?

  8. Syllabus Quiz 1. How many pages should your first paper be? 2. Under what circumstances do I accept late papers? 3. When are my office hours? 4. Which learning objectives most appeal to you? 5. What teaching methods are acceptable for doing your class presentations? 6. What should you do if you miss a class?

  9. Wrapping up a class session • When opening up a class discussion the instructor can act as the scribe, making notes on the board from student comments. • Play “popcorn” to wrap up a class

  10. Contact Information Lynann “Annie” Butler, MA, LPC, CAC III 303-556-3105 Lbutler6@msudenver.edu

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