Exploring Strategies for Teaching and Learning
Learn to become an effective Learning Assistant (aka undergraduate teaching assistant) through hands-on experience with proven teaching methods and learning theories. You'll work on developing essential skills like facilitating peer learning, providing constructive feedback, and creating welcoming classroom environments where all students can thrive. Through interactive discussions and real-world practice, you'll build your confidence as an educational leader. You'll engage with insightful readings, observe experienced instructors, reflect on your growth, and complete practical projects that prepare you to support undergraduate learning across any discipline. Whether you're specifically interested in becoming a Learning Assistant or want to develop valuable teaching and leadership skills, this course will equip you with the tools you need to succeed.
Topics
- Becoming a professional teacher who is developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of reflective practice, collaborative action, and lifelong inquiry into teaching and learning.
- Developing a personal philosophy of and a vision for delivering technical content through education pedagogy.
- Develop understanding of how to integrate subject specific knowledge and pedagogy, nature of the discipline, and nature of learning in the college classroom.
- Designing learning environments that promote engaged learning.
- Developing skills in communication, management, and a variety of instructional and assessment strategies that contribute to meaningful instruction college classes.
- Becoming competent in selecting and integrating appropriate technological tools into instruction.
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- Exploring Strategies for Teaching and Learning · 2.0 · Undergraduate