Teaching Approaches & Strategies
Resources to help your students excel.
This section offers a variety of teaching approaches and strategies designed to enhance student engagement, foster critical thinking, and support diverse learning needs. From flipped classrooms that prioritize in-class collaboration to applied learning that bridges theory and practice, these resources provide practical guidance for creating dynamic, student-centered learning environments. Explore tools and strategies for self-regulated learning, project-based learning, active learning, and differentiation to empower your students and elevate their educational experience.
Essential Tools & Support
Flipped Classroom
| These resources outline the flipped classroom model, which involves moving content delivery outside of class to allow for more interactive and collaborative learning activities during class time. It emphasizes personalized learning experiences, increased student engagement, and the development of higher-order thinking skills through pre-class content consumption and in-class application activities. |
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| Flipped Classroom | The Catholic University of America’s Center for Teaching Excellence |
| Planning a Flipped Class | University of Waterloo Center for Teaching Excellence |
Applied Learning
| This resource on applied learning emphasizes engaging students directly in course concepts through hands-on experiences, projects, and research, fostering connections between academic content and real-world applications. It highlights the benefits of increased student motivation, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and reflective learning. |
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| Applied Learning | The Catholic University of America’s Center for Teaching Excellence |
Self-Regulated Learning
| This resource provides tools for instructors to enhance students’ self-regulated learning. It includes examples such as a Learning Strategies Checklist for assessing and improving study habits, Exam and Assignment Wrappers for reflective assessment and future planning, and a Student Learning Reflection Survey for gathering feedback on engagement and learning strategies throughout the course. These tools aim to foster metacognition, self-regulation, and continuous improvement in students’ learning approaches |
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| Self-Regulated Learning | The Catholic University of America’s Center for Teaching Excellence |
Project-Based Learning
| This resource outlines Project-Based Learning (PBL) as a method where students actively engage in extended, real-world projects to solve meaningful problems. It emphasizes starting with an essential question to drive inquiry and creativity, designing a structured plan and schedule, monitoring student progress through formative assessments, assessing both process and outcome, and finally, evaluating the overall learning experience to foster continuous improvement and reflection. |
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| Project-Based Learning | The Catholic University of America’s Center for Teaching Excellence |
Differentiation
| This resource outlines various techniques to support diverse learners and scaffold their learning through differentiation. | |
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| Differentiation | The Catholic University of America’s Center for Teaching Excellence |
| Differentiated Instruction | Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning |
| Differentiation Strategies | Structural Learning |
| Differentiated Learning | NSW Department of Education |
Active Learning Strategies
| These resources on active learning activities provides a variety of strategies aimed at engaging students in constructing their own understanding through interactive and collaborative methods. | |
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| What is Active Learning? | University of Minnesota Center for Educational Innovation |
| Active Learning Cheat Sheet | Queen’s University Centre for Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching |
| Examples of Active Learning 1 Examples of Active Learning 2 Examples of Active Learning 3 Examples of Active Learning 4 |
University of Waterloo Center for Teaching Excellence, Alice Cassdiy’s Educational Development Resources |
| Video Library of Active Learning Strategies & How it can be adopted online | IOWA State University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Patricia Cross Academy |