The Center for Advancing Student Learning (CASL), empowers educators with self-serve resources that cater to their individual needs and enable professional growth. Our collection includes written procedures and instructional videos designed to provide educators with the tools and knowledge they need to enhance their teaching practice and promote student learning.
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This guide is intended for instructors to help plan course design choices that support student wellness, to share support services with students, and to know where to turn when a student is in distress. Why This Matters: Your Role Instructors …
Jigsaw activity is a silent, pass the paper activity for engaging every student. It requires paper and something to write with for all students to participate. Students respond in writing to a prompt at the top of a sheet, then …
Developed by Alexis Wiggins (The Best Class You Never Taught, ASCD 2017) and rooted in the Harkness method, Spider Web Discussion flips the usual class discussion: students run it, the instructor maps the discussion by drawing lines between each speaker …
This resource provides questions to ask on a short survey to explore how students actually work. This enables group creation to be built on how students might work together. Group work with students can lead to friction based on misaligned …
This is a low-preparation active learning technique that can be implemented in less than five minutes and adapted to virtually any course. By making a small adjustment to how groups report out, Spokesperson Shuffle increases individual accountability and encourages every student to participate in the …