CTE at Rice

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at Rice University invites applications for two Assistant Teaching Professor and Associate Director positions! View details and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/126108

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"Grades routinely incorporate non-achievement items that "contaminate" their validity" #RiceCTEWhatsNew #ungrading

"What do you wish grading could be for your students? What do you wish grading could be for you?" #ungrading #RiceCTEWhatsNew @AniaKowalik11

Excited for "From Grades to Learning: Alternative Approaches to Representing Student Achievement" #ungrading #RiceCTEWhatsNew

New CTE post on tips for teaching while wearing a mask: tinyurl.com/k9w3xu42

Rather than banning technology, talk with students about the research on how their learning can be impacted by multi-tasking and use strategies to capture students attention #RiceCTEWhatsNew

The technology is not the distraction, how the technology is used can facilitate learning or distraction #RiceCTEWhatsNew

Students who are motivated to learn and see the relevance of what they are learning are less likely to be distracted #RiceCTEWhatsNew

Students are confident in their ability to multi-task #RiceCTEWhatsNew

Switch-tasking (trying to do two difficult tasks at the same time) results in a deterioration of performance on both tasks #RiceCTEWhatsNew

Why do students get distracted? cognitive-overload; perceived self-efficacy; stress/anxiety are some reasons that are within instructors control #RiceCTEWhatsNew

Attention is a "limited-capacity resource. #RiceCTEWhatsNew

Looking forward to @amanda_jungels #RiceCTEWhatsNew Distraction: Attention, Concentration, and Maximizing Learning starting soon!

A new CTE guest blog post from Rodrigo Ferreira, Rice Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, on his experience doing SoTL research under the CTE Umbrella IRB: tinyurl.com/ygrouq5k

In-class strategies for supporting quiet students: be mindful of inequities in participation; develop and follow guidelines for participation; be transparent about what "participation" means; help students develop these skills! #RiceCTEWhatsNew

Ideas: pause after speaking; avoiding talking over your PPT slides; allowing silent time for thinking, creating, absorbing; allow students to work silently with peers.