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Thriving in Academia: A Leadership Task More Difficult Than It Sounds
Denise C. Phelps, Department of Public Policy “I want to be a leader,” are words you may hear echoed when a teacher asks their students what they want to be when they grow up. Being a leader and obtaining leadership skills details a lot of responsibility and hard...
Applying Best Practices to Online Classrooms
Colin McLaughlin-Alcock, Department of Anthropology Educators are increasingly recognizing the value of active learning and other best practice strategies which allow students to take ownership of their own education. One domain which remains resistant to active...
Commentary: What Instructors Can Do to Improve Retention of Racial Minorities in Higher Education
Mustafa I. Hussain, MS, Department of Informatics Science has had a problem for a long time. The problem resurfaced recently, when news broke that Nobel Prize-winning biologist James Watson believes that race determines intelligence (Yancy-Bragg, 2019). Many of us...
Service-learning: Teaching Criminology Beyond the Classroom
Gabriela Gonzalez, Department of Criminology, Law, & Society Making a Murderer, The Keepers, Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, How to Get Away with Murder. One need only flip open their laptop to get a glimpse of society’s obsession with true crime and crime drama....
Making a Large Class Small
Alessandra C. Martini, Ph.D, UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders There’s a unique set of challenges that can reduce student learning and exhaust faculty members teaching large-enrollment courses. Among so many people, it is easy for...
In with the Good and Out with the Bad: Promoting Healthy Stress in Class
Alicia Hoffman, Department of Chemistry Stress is correlated with both improved and diminished academic achievement. Students are successful when there is a drive to attain high standards, but too much stress negatively impacts learning and memory and increases...
Making Lab Spaces More Accessible to the Variety of Students We Serve
Amy Christiansen, Department of Chemistry Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way to make instruction accessible to students with disabilities (SwD) and different learning preferences. UDL strives to make instruction inclusive by providing diverse curriculum...
How One University Tries to Make Its Teaching Training Stick
Andrea Aebersold, from the UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, shares insights in Teaching, a weekly newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education. She discusses UCI’s new active-learning certification program. Read...
DTEI Winter Newsletter 2019
<!doctype html> To view in your browser, click here. Winter 2019 Newsletter The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is dedicated to partnering with faculty, graduate students, and postdocs to maximize students’ academic...