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Designing courses that provide equitable learning experience for all students supports the Georgetown mission to care for the whole person through our teaching. By foregrounding …
Active learning is an approach to education that does not consider students to be the passive recipients of knowledge transmitted from an expert, but rather, …
One of our most important goals for our students is a deeper engagement with and investment in the subject matter. We want them to care …
Once you have clearly articulated learning goals for your course, you will need to figure out how to measure students’ progress toward those goals.The word …
A good assignment helps the professor and students pursue the learning goals of the course. Rather than starting with a prefabricated assignment, then, this is …
Sometimes students can't all meet in the classroom, for all sorts of reasons—but they can still have an opportunity to engage with course material. It’s …
Communicate early and often.For many of us, the pandemic drove home the importance of communication. Staying in touch with your students makes it easier for …
Introducing a new group of students to your subject area or to your discipline is challenging business. There are tricky concepts that they have to …
Whether it is through discussion and dialogue, brainstorming, problem-solving, roleplays, or group presentations, interactions with peers create learning spaces where students can practice, refine, and …
Community and a sense of belonging are important factors in students’ academic success. We assume that community-building largely only happens when we are together in …
CNDLS is here to support you as you navigate the uses of generative AI in your teaching and research. We're developing an evolving set of …
Lending PoliciesStudent Lending PoliciesStudents are not permitted to check out media such as videotapes, DVDs, or original CDs. They may, however, use them in the …
CNDLS offers a range of classroom and program assessment services to Georgetown faculty, graduate students, and administrators. These include designing and gathering customized mid- or …
Polling systems and clickers foster interactive, responsive classrooms via live polling and Q&A during class. These softwares capture student responses and instantly tallies and produces …
The syllabus presents students with a first impression of your course. It offers many opportunities to share what the learning experience in your course will …
Seminars—small classes typically driven by discussion and other forms of active learning and in which students often take on teaching roles and responsibilities—offer tremendous opportunities …
What goals do you have for your students? What is it that you want them to know—and what do you want them to be able …
Set up the space from the beginning to encourage academic integrityCheating happens for a lot of different reasons, which means that it needs to be …
About CanvasA learning management system (LMS), like Canvas, provides students in a course with one single place to go to access course materials, submit assignments, …
Difficult discussions are an inescapable part of higher education. While certain topics lend themselves to more divisive conversations, difficult discussions can even crop up in …
Assigning digital projects in lieu of, or in addition to, traditional pen-and-paper assignments, provides students with the opportunity to individualize their learning, work in non-traditional …
This question guide is designed to introduce common questions and steps to curricular change to apply at both the course or curriculum level.Analyze current teaching …
A semester is a marathon effort, and, by the time you reach the end of it, it’s quite possible that everyone—you and the students both—will …
What do we mean by engagement?Student engagement generally refers to students’ level of investment, passion, and interest in the subject and course material, as well …
What is Experiential Learning?Experiential learning’s central tenet is that “learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from …
Experienced teachers know that “How do I want class to go?” and “How is class actually going?” are two different questions, and both are worth …
Georgetown provides a strong network of diversity-related resources and services to support its campus community. Faculty, staff and administrators collaborate with students to foster a …
The Safety Net is a forum for submitting information about a student who may be experiencing a challenging situation and needs help connecting to the …
From a student’s perspective, grading can seem like a mysterious and even sometimes arbitrary process, and yet it has the potential to be an important, …
What is hybrid?Before COVID-19, Hybrid described courses that combine face-to-face classroom instruction with computer-based learning. Hybrid courses move a significant part of course learning online …
Most professors want students to leave their classes with more than just a heap of information: ideally the student has also been transformed in some …
Assessment is a crucial part of any course; you need to know whether your students are learning what you set out for them to learn. …
Inclusive pedagogy is a student-centered approach to teaching that pays attention to the varied background, learning styles, and abilities of all the learners in front …
IntroductionDesigning the learning environment to be meaningful, relevant, and accessible for every student in your course/program is inclusive pedagogy. It’s also consistent with Georgetown values …
You undoubtedly have implicit ideas about what you want your students to take away from your course. You may also be expected to meet learning …
What is LEAP?Georgetown’s Learning, Equity, Access, and Pedagogy Initiative (LEAP) was launched by university leadership in 2022. LEAP supports academic units to examine and strengthen …
The lecture is a commonplace in many academic disciplines; also commonplace, however, are concerns that lectures can be unengaging, unproductive, a haven for uncreative teaching, …
Assessment, like all other aspects of teaching, needs to be adapted to work in a virtual course environment. If you traditionally rely on closed-book, in-class …
With more faculty moving course elements online and more technologies and services becoming available to support those environments, you may be considering how much of …
Guidelines for Securing Exams and Classes OnlineAcademic integrity is of course just as important in a virtual learning environment as it is in an in-person …
Let’s design together.We believe that innovations in online learning can help us discover new ways of learning in all spheres. At the same time, we …
Good class sessions rarely just happen; they usually grow out of careful planning and execution.Planning the Class SessionDesigning a successful class session will, like course …
To paraphrase what philosopher Edmund Burke once said, learning without reflection is like eating without digestion. In either case you can feed as much as …
To start with the obvious: It’s important to respond to student writing. Giving students feedback on their written work (beyond a grade) emphasizes that writing …
In many CNDLS, Doyle, Engelhard, and ITEL projects, faculty develop new strategies and tools for teaching. Such efforts generate two important questions:How does it work, …
A successful semester not only ends well—it also begins well. Thought and preparation can allow you to set a productive tone and direction from the …
What does a large lecture class look like online?We’re all familiar with the large lecture hall with fixed tiered seating and a pitched floor descending …
Student engagement generally refers to students’ level of investment, passion, and interest in the subject and course material, as well as the degree of interaction …
Particularly in difficult times, it’s important to keep an eye on how students are doing—Georgetown’s Student Outreach and Support has compiled a guide to recognizing …
The presence of teaching assistants in courses has become so commonplace that we might be tempted to give that aspect of the class little thought—we …
Trauma-Informed TeachingStudents are carrying considerable stress and trauma into learning spaces. Somewhere between 66% to 85% of college students have experienced trauma firsthand, in their …
To teach effectively, your teaching must be accessible to your students, all of whom come to the classroom with varied backgrounds, expectations, and abilities. This …
