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Best Practices [Active Learning][Critical Thinking][Assessment][Cooperative Learning][Plagiarism] [Student Writing][Disruptive Students][Student Services] ***************************************************** The following is a collection of materials from a multitude of sources, intended to provide both introductory information about each practice as well as ideas for how to incorporate them into the classroom. The links provide theory, practice, and frequently, both at once. Explore and discover new ideas to motivate learning in the English classroom. In addition, the Best Practices Committee encourages submission of your own ideas and resources, the materials you refer to again and again when planning and executing your lessons. Through sharing and collaborating, we become better educators. ***** Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn part of themselves." (Chickering & Gamson, 1987)
Image Source: http://www.edutechie.ws/2007/10/09/cone-of-experience-media/ ACTIVE LEARNING is defined as any strategy "that involves students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing" and includes small group activities, collaborative learning, cooperative learning, and problem-based learning, to name just a few ideas (*Bonwell, C., & Eison, J. (1991). Active learning: Creating excitement in the classroom (ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 1). Washington, DC: George Washington University, p. 2). Resources for Active Learning: ***** Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them. (From Michael Scriven & Richard Paul, “Defining Critical Thinking,” The Critical Thinking Community) Resources on Critical Thinking Wolcott & Lynch Educator Resources Robert Ennis's "A Few Suggestions" The Critical Thinking Community ***** Given the high stakes nature of many of these assessment purposes, it is crucial that assessment practices be guided by sound principles to insure that they are valid, fair, and appropriate to the context and purposes for which they designed (CCCC Position Statement on Writing Assessment) CCCC Position Statement on Writing Assessment WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (PDF) Critical Thinking and Assessment U of Delaware Daily Classroom Assessment from U Delaware 50 Classroom Assessment Techniques (PDF) Holistic Critical Thinking Rubric (PDF)
***** Even with its increasing popularity, a large majority of the group tasks that teachers use, even teachers who claim to be using 'cooperative learning,' continue to be cooperative group tasks-not cooperative learning group tasks ("Essential Elements of Cooperative Education," ERIC Digest) Resources on Cooperative Learning: Essential Elements of Cooperative Learning (PDF) Facilitating Students' Collaborative Writing: ASHE-ERIC Education Report (PDF) ***** Academic integrity is defined as being in firm adherence to a code or standard of values. It is a commitment on the part of the students, faculty and staff, even in the face of adversity, to five fundamental values: Honesty, Truth, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility. (UTA Academic Integrity Page, 2008) From these values flow principles of behavior that enable academic communities to translate ideals into action. (The Center for Academic Integrity, 1999) UTA Library’s online tutorial for students Office of Student Conuct (formerly Student Judicial Affairs) Academic Integrity Faculty Website ***** STUDENT WRITING, RESEARCH, AND DOCUMENTATION Resources for Student Writing UTA Library subject guide for English ***** Other Student Services Office for Students with Disabilities
***** Guidelines for Dealing with Disruptive Students
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