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Hovland, Ingie – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2021
This paper gives an example of an inductive Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) process, adapting Anthony Ciccone's five conditions of a meaningful SoTL question. Presenting a study on pre-class reading in an undergraduate religion class, I describe how my question went through five life stages. I began with nine different pre-class…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading, Creative Activities, Religion Studies
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Goldina, Anya; Licona, Peter; Ricci, Patricia Likos – HAPS Educator, 2020
Extra credit assignments are often viewed with disdain by educators as opportunities to earn points for students that lack the study skills to do well on exams and quizzes. However, these assignments can serve as a platform for students to apply the course material to their own lives, optimizing their strengths and creativity, and encouraging them…
Descriptors: Assignments, Anatomy, Physiology, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Luchetta, Sara – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
Drawing from the importance of narrative inquiry in contemporary geographical reasoning and teaching, this paper focuses on some practices set around the relationship between maps and literature. Reader-generated maps, maps produced starting from the reading of a literary text, are at the core of a reflection on the potentialities of literary…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Reading Achievement, Concept Mapping, Geography Instruction
Stanton, Shannon M.; Gonzalez, Gilberto – Multicultural Education, 2011
Scholars for decades now have argued for the importance of multiculturalism in the United States, as they become a more diverse society. Multicultural education has the potential to provide a curriculum that is inclusive, offering multiple perspectives, and concerned with equity. It is without question the responsibility of colleges and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Theater Arts, Multicultural Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Lipiner, Michael – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
This in-depth case study explores a modern approach to education: the benefits of using film, technology and other creative, non-conventional pedagogical methods in the classroom to enhance students' understanding of literature. The study explores the positive effects of introducing a variety of visual-based (and auditory-based) teaching methods…
Descriptors: Assignments, Language Arts, Case Studies, At Risk Students
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Trebell, Donna – Design and Technology Education, 2009
This paper explores ways in which data collected during designerly activity in a Secondary Design and Technology Classroom in the UK, can be analysed with a view to ascertaining the features of the classroom interactions which facilitate the development of designerly activity in "fledgling designers" (Trebell, 2007). The paper builds…
Descriptors: Interaction, Educational Technology, Design, Design Crafts