Peer Assessment Learning Activity Information and Resources
Peer assessment can be an effective way of enabling students to teach and learn from each other. Following best practices when creating peer assessment learning activities will help your students get the most out of these activities. This Peer Assessment Resources document provides you with information about and links to a number of resources that you can use as you plan and implement peer assessment in your teaching.
Techniques for Creating an Effective Learning Environment
On March 9, 2016, The ETI presented a professional development session for the Medical and Clinical Psychology Department Seminar and the University community that was designed to help participants create environments conducive to learning a wide variety of types of material. Handouts from that session are provided below.
- Engagement Model This document provides a visual model that presents a variety of elements that contribute to learner engagement in the classroom or online environment.
- Storytelling and Visual Thinking This document presents suggestions for starting to think about information in visual terms or as part of a story in order to help learners engage with the material.
- Strategies Based On How The Brain Learns This document presents strategies that can be used to engage learners in the classroom or online environment, based on research about how the brain processes information when learning. This version of the handout is slightly different from the one provided during the session; it includes information about specific strategies that were discussed during the session.
Creating Effective Learning Experiences
On May 13, 2015, The ETI presented a professional development session for the Medical and Clinical Psychology Department Seminar and the University community that provided some tips about creating effective learning experiences. Handouts from that session are provided here.
- What Makes Good Teachers presentation
These are the Powerpoint slides used during the presentation. - Characteristics of Good Learning Experiences
This document provides a list of characteristics of good learning experiences that the group generated during the session, and also provides resources to use if you’d like to try to develop similar types of learning experiences.
Flipping the Classroom
On August 27, 2013, The ETI presented a professional development session for USUHS faculty that provided an introduction to the theory behind and the practice of "flipping the classroom." Handouts from that session are provided here.
- Flipping Worksheet
This worksheet is designed help you start flipping your classroom. It consists of a series of questions about specific elements of your flipped classroom learning experience that you can ask yourself. It also provides you with space to write the answers. When you have completed this document, you will have a good basis for your flipping plan. - Flipping Tips and Considerations
In this document you will find some important tips to consider when flipping your classroom, along with specific suggestions for each step along the way.
Handouts from Lunchtime Seminar on Using Discussion Boards (DB) in Teaching
Discussion_Board_Questionsv4_handout.pdf –This document, which provides the slides used at the lunchtime seminar on using discussion boards in teaching, describes the benefits of using discussion boards and provides recommendations for writing effective discussion board questions.
Note: though the session title includes “Blackboard” and Blackboard is mentioned in the handout, the techniques described can be used with discussion boards in any LMS.
DB_Creation_Techniques.pdf - This document, which was used as a handout at the lunchtime seminar on using discussion boards in teaching, provides explanations of different types of discussion board questions and postings.
Handouts from Lunchtime Seminar on Putting Course Materials Online
Aligning_Objectives_and_Activities.pdf - This document suggests online activities that can be used to support different types of objectives.