Pat Reid This month I asked a couple of instructor-focused social media groups for advice for new instructors. I loosely grouped these into Taking Care of Yourself, Your Syllabus, Teaching the Class, and Other. Here is the compiled list (duplicates removed): Taking Care of Yourself Your Syllabus Teaching the Class Other
A few months ago, I wrote about the direction of feedback – Feed up, back, and forward (available here). In addition to direction, when we write feedback we should consider what Hattie & Timperley (2007) refer to as the cognitive level of the feedback. They describe 4 types of cognitive levels: Task (FT), Process (FP), … Read more
Last month I watched the IDEAS Seminar on “Beyond the Classroom: Creating Engaging Educational Videos” (Yurchenkov, 2025). If you have read some of my previous blog posts you may noticed several about video lessons. However, several points jumped out at me that I thought I would share specifically about the length of videos (note the … Read more
Feedback: “Nice job. I enjoyed reading this. A-“ I took a cohort program for my master’s and had the same instructor for 4 or 5 courses. Each assignment was an essay. On every essay I got exactly the same feedback – absolutely no comments on grammar or specific ideas, but rather the generic “Nice job. … Read more
ITEEA, Gagné, Cafarella, and others provide a procedural flow for a unit/lesson. The differences are primarily on focus – the ITEEA 6E model is focused on project- and case-based unit design and so the language of their model is based on student activity. Of course, the instructor is still designing the unit, based on how … Read more