University Teaching & Learning 5000

Links for May 7 class

This morning I read from the Epilogue of Ken Bain’s book, What the Best College Teachers Do. You can listen to a recording (12 mins.) of the full Epilogue by clicking here. The book is available at Scott Library (LB 2331 B34 2004) The reference is as follows:

Bain, K. (2004). What the best college teachers do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

The talkers and listeners exercise that we did is described in a post on the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List. You can read it by clicking here.

I mentioned that in the Centre for Academic Writing and in a few courses I have used a form that helps to guide peer feedback on writing in a useful direction. You can find a copy of that form here. The questions on this form are very generic, but I think they are good ones for building a dialogue that can take both the writer and the peer deeper into the ideas. If you were teaching writing per se, you might want a peer feedback form that was more specific to the way in which the ideas are expressed, such as the one here.