Good Teaching Practices by Ohio State Group


 

Good teaching
practice statement

F2F activity

Online activity

WebCT tool/environment

Example
Provided by:
  1. Engage students in a meaningful course improvement process - increase "student-centricity"

 

·Administer an in-class survey. After each survey is compiled, spend time explaining how you implemented some of the suggestions

Students complete course surveys, three if possible:

·at the start, to assess pre-course levels of skill & knowledge

·one mid-stream, to assess learning AND degree of implementation of previous feedback

·one at the end, to assess whole course objectives, and the survey tool itself

·Publish the results at a PUBLIC web site

· Quiz/survey tool

·use stats & detailed statistics & reporting tools

·HTML editor such as Netscape Composer to copy and paste tables & charts into a summary report (optional)

Greg
  1. Give feedback in a timely manner students need to know where they stand. 

Make it clear upfront if there will be some sort of graded exercise or test when they can expect feedback from you. 

At the end of a quiz if the quiz is not self-grading I always let the students know when to expect the grade to be in the grade book i.e. 48 hours etc.

 
  • Quiz/survey tool
  • My grades 
  • Assignments

Clarence
  1. Connect information to learners’ daily lives through active learning.

Discussions regarding how the lesson has or could impact their daily lives. Assign learners to groups and have them create one list that incorporates all of their ideas about the topic.

Assign learners to groups and have them create a PowerPoint presentation that explains how each group feels that the information learned to their daily lives.

Presentations

Bulletin Board

 Rebecca
  1. Encourage learners to become familiar with their own learning styles so that they can adapt their learning strategies to better learn the materials.

Give learners a learning styles inventory as well as resources regarding different learning styles

Single page regarding general info. On learning styles as well as URLs to other online resources.

Single Page

External Links

Bulletin Board

Rebecca
  1. Learners will know the purpose of the lesson(s), how the lesson relates to their lives, and how they will be evaluated before being given the lesson(s).

Handout as well as in class discussion using a project as a visual aid.

Hold online discussions, chats, as well as giving skills learned to the learners as well as asking them what would help them to understand the lessons better.

Syllabus

Chat,

Bulletin Board

Rebecca
  1. Show students how the course outcomes are linked to module objectives, corresponding activities, and evaluation instruments by using the syllabus or course outline at the beginning of the course and each module, 
  • in-class discussion
  • handout course outline
  • read the online syllabus
  • read the online content modules
  • complete online surveys

Quiz/survey Tool

Syllabus

Content Modules

Greg
  1. Provide students with frequent opportunities to self-evaluate their progress, understanding, and degree of learning in the course
  • review quiz at end of unit
  • oral quiz
  • group study session
  • self-quiz (ungraded)
  • self-test (graded)
  • track progress

Self-Test

Quiz/Survey

My Progress

Greg
  1. Facilitate a positive collaborative environment, so students can experience teamwork and be successful in teams
  • group role-playing
  • group presentations
  • group research
  • group-led class
  • group portfolio/homepage
  • group-led discussions or chat
  • group assignment
  • group "Web Quest"

Student Homepages

Discussion or Chat

Assignment

Search

Greg
  1. There needs to be a clear schedule of events in a course students need to know what they need to do and when.
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Calendar
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Calendar
  • Palm support for the calendar
  • Syllabus
  • Calendar
  • Palm support for the calendar

Clarence

10.  Understands different accessibility issues for students.

 Role-playing to show students how other students face different physical challenges.

 Providing transcripts for audio files for hearing challenged files.

·        Audio files

·        Video files

Brad

 

11. Use technology to supplement traditional teaching tools

·                Audio/video equipment

·        PowerPoint-type presentations in class

 

·                 Use image databases to reinforce lectures.

·                 CD-ROMs to access additional material.

·            Image databases

·            CD ROMs

Brad

12.  Communicates well with a variety of audiences, understanding that people have different skills in communicating.

·                Encouraging student discussions

·                Small group activity

·                Journals

·                Class presentations

·                In class appointments

·                 Chats during class

·                 Emailing students who are reluctant to talk during class.

·                Providing discussion  topics, allowing students more time to respond and elaborate on their ideas/

     Discussions

 Chat

                

                 Emails

 

Brad