Jul 14, 2020 | Teaching Strategies
Currently (July 2020) Mines is planning for an in-person fall semester with a mix of course modalities. Some courses, especially those that incorporate hard-to-access laboratory equipment and in-person experiential learning, will remain on campus, but follow physical...
Jul 9, 2020 | Teaching Strategies
Helping students connect with course material, colleagues, and instructors helps students learn. So much so that many instructors make ‘engagement’ a focus of their classroom pedagogy. But, how can instructors best engage students in remotely offered...
Jul 9, 2020 | Teaching Strategies
In a spring 2020 faculty survey, Mines instructors identified that they were interested in learning about successful remote teaching strategies from other Mines instructors. The following table details a number of successful strategies collected during the summer of...
Jun 22, 2020 | Teaching Strategies
Creating a supportive classroom culture is essential for effective teaching and learning. In the STEM literature, the term ‘community of inquiry’ (COI) describes a learning community composed of students and the instructor(s) who together engage in...