The Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning fosters excellence in teaching and learning at Mars Hill University by providing resources, enrichment opportunities, faculty development, and strategies that support quality and innovative instruction.
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This resource will help demonstrate pedagogically sound course design principles and the research that supports them.
These course design resources can assist you with syllabus planning, course design, delivery plan, and assessment methods of courses taught using all modalities - online, blended/hybrid, and traditional face-to-face.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework developed by CAST, an Understood founding partner. UDL guides the design of learning experiences to proactively meet the needs of all learners. This resource will help you see that barriers to learning are in the design of the environment, and often NOT in the student. This resource will help you think about how to design your course in a way that increases accessibility for all students from the first day to the last day of your course.
This resource will help you better understand how to engage with your learners. Topics include philosophical approaches to active teaching as well as practical suggestions for several common modes of engagement (discussions, active learning, experiential learning, etc).
Inclusive teaching looks at range of approaches to instruction that consider the diverse needs and backgrounds of all students to create a learning environment in which ALL students feel valued and where all students have equal access to learn.In this resource will will give you some tools to build on your current inclusive practices.
Teaching with technology can deepen student learning and increase student engagement while supporting instructional SLOs. This resource can help you select the “best” tech tools while not losing sight of your goals for student learning.
Classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, focused, attentive, and on task. This resource is intended to help you explore ways to ensure your students are academically productive during a class and to support you in times of potential classroom disruptions.
Assessment of learning is the snapshot in time that lets the teacher, students and their parents know how well each student has completed the learning tasks and activities. There are two primary types of assessment formative and summative. Both provide information about student achievement. These resources will help you build skills to ensure that your assessment provides useful reporting information that can be used to improve student learning.
We are very used to assessing our students and often have a little time for reflection. When we receive our course evaluations it is usually too late to change anything about the course. This resource is intended to help you assess your teaching in a formative manner (while the class is still taking place), so that we can ensure our students get the best we have to offer each semester.