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What ideas, techniques, and values guide your teaching? The resources below will help you think through a range of approaches to teaching that can transform student learning and encourage students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to their lives.

Resources

Active Learning

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, …

Bottlenecks and Thresholds

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 …

Experiential Learning

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 …

Ignatian Pedagogy

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 …

Reflection in the Classroom

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 …

Student Engagement in Large Online Classes

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 …

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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, …

Best Practices from Pandemic Teaching and Learning

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 …

Gathering Teaching Feedback

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 …

Inclusive Pedagogy

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 …

Opportunities

The Engelhard Project

The Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and Learning focuses on teaching to the whole student. By helping faculty incorporate health and well-being issues into the classroom, the Project enhances academic learning, encourages students to reflect on their own attitudes and behaviors, and fosters connections both in and out of the classroom.

Mid-Semester Teaching Feedback

A Mid-Semester Teaching Feedback session is an assessment technique conducted at the midpoint of the semester. This technique allows faculty to gather feedback from students on aspects of a course that are new or changed from the previous semester, course activities such as class time, homework, projects, lab work, use of technology, and a lot more. The resulting feedback then allows faculty to implement changes in the remainder of the semester based on student comments.

CNDLS' Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI)

The Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI) offers Georgetown University faculty and staff from all campuses the opportunity to explore strategies for excellence in teaching and learning.

Faculty Stories

Yulia Chentsova-Dutton

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Linda Hodges

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