Teaching to Your Strengths
When we structure our classes around things we are good at, we believe the classes go much smoother. For example, someone might excel at leading impromptu class discussions, so a more flexible syllabus would work well for them. Whereas someone else may be a master at creating interesting and detailed assignments, so she thrives on having a set syllabus.
We will spend the first third of the FLC exploring our strengths, perhaps by interviewing others or completing the CliftonStrengths Assessment. For the middle third we will brainstorm how we might apply our strengths to the classroom. Finally, in the last third we will work to match our syllabi to our strengths.
Sara Gundersen Facilitator
Lori Miltenberger Facilitator
Participating Members:
- Abbie Thompson
- Lucas Kelley
- Alberto Lopez Martin
- Ryan Cole
- Jennifer Marley
- Faculty Learning Communities
- Applying Memory Science to the Classroom & Doing Research to See If It Actually Works
- Backwards Design Curriculum Development
- Beyond Textbooks: Using Online Resources in Your Classroom
- Blended Learning: Using Technology to Improve Student Learning
- Classroom to Career: Integrating Career-Ready Skills into the Curriculum
- Creating a Compassionate Campus
- Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom and Beyond
- Eco-Pedagogy
- Faculty Civility
- Faculty/Student Mentoring
- Helping At-Risk Students
- Inclusive Excellence in STEM
- Interdisciplinary Projects in Mathematics
- Mindset: Moving Students from a Fixed to a Growth Mindset
- New Directions in Artificial Intelligence
- Small Teaching Online
- Small Teaching
- Supporting Teaching of International Students
- Teaching Across Cultures
- Teaching by Discussion
- Teaching to Your Strengths
- The Flipped Classroom
- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Unconventional Grading Methods