Make Sense, Please! Video Project On College Student Perceptions of Good Teaching

1. Make Sense, Please!Video Project On College StudentPerceptions of Good Teaching Charlie Rathbone, UDL Staff Puja Gupta, UDL Staff

2. This Afternoon… • View portion of an actual interview • Watch the theme video on “organization” • Share categories • Share and discuss student examples from Pedagogy • Share UDL Principles • Find the students in the UDL Principle REPRESENTATION • Final Observations

3. The Video Study • Video interviews of nine students • Male and Female • Undergraduates and Graduates • Rising Sophomores to Just Graduated • Traditional and Non-Traditional (all “young”) • ACCESS students included • Qualitative Methodology • Wrote transcripts of the video recordings • Analyzed data using a process of recursive thematic analysis • Asked same questions • What’s UVM like for you? • What happens in a course that works for you in terms of your learning? • What happens in a course that doesn’t work for you in terms of your learning? • If you could address new faculty at the NFO to tell them how to be successful teachers at UVM, what would you say?

4. Organizing Themes • Characteristics of Good Teaching • Characteristics of Not-So-Good Teaching • Characteristics of the Good Teacher • Characteristics of A Good Course

5. Characteristics of Good Teaching Reciprocity between teacher and students • Learning Materials • Pedagogy • Caring • Power

6. Pedagogy • Class Structure • Awareness • Feedback • Presence • Fresh Presentations • Connections

7. Characteristics of Not-So-Good Teaching • Absence of Reciprocity • Psychic Cost • Appearance • Personalized • Poor Course Organization • Student Reaction • Other

8. Characteristics of the Good Teacher • What they do as teachers • Enthusiasm • Relationship • Course Content • Whothey are as people • Teach people • Go beyond and connect with students • Love what they do • Has perspective on work demands • Entertaining and Hard

9. Characteristics of a Good Course • Course Organization • Size • Coherence • Readings • Technology • Structure/Order • Assessment • Essay Exams • Transparency • Preparation for • The “Felt” Level • Relationship is personal

10. How Do These Student-Identified Characteristics Intersect With The CAST UDL Principles? • Multiple Options for Representation • Multiple Options for Expression and Activity • Multiple Options for Engagement We are asking you intersect our student examples in Pedagogy with the UDL principle of Representation.

11. Observations • Intersecting two different ways of looking towards the same outcome – what’s good college teaching for all students • Some portions of the studenting experience is invisible to this group of students • There is convergence across the two frames • From these students’ point of view, UDL validates what they consider to be good teaching, mostly • From the UDL perspective, more could have been done to reach all students • From both perspectives, The Felt World and the Thinking World are both central to the learning experience. From the neuroscience perspective, they are the same

12. How Do These Student Identified Characteristics Intersect Current Research On Good University Teaching? • Create a natural critical learning environment • Get their attention and keep it • Start with the students rather than the disciplines • Seek commitments • Help students learn outside of class • Engage students in disciplinary thinking • Create diverse learning experiences Bain, K. (2004). What The Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.