Essential+Questions+and+Suggestions

A. How do we balance teaching essential content information with methods like project-based learning? Especially in lower-level classes?

B. How do we handle students/parents who want to have grades for everything? C. How do we deal with students wanting the “easy way out”?
 * formative versus summative assessment; moving beyond "just done."
 * gets job done right first time - make student the team leader to help others
 * stubborn student - don't totally irritate student; can change what counts as just passing
 * students setting goals

D. How do we account for different learning levels? E. How do we do this efficiently? F. In an already jammed curriculum or in a course with a common exam, how do we teach the skills to make students able to direct their learning? G. How do we collaborate with people outside of our own classes? H. How do we engineer a good learning process?
 * Not necessarily a project; could be how you ask questions; how you approach information
 * clear goals
 * models

I. How do we get students to learn for the sake of learning (a shift in motivation)?
 * Homework - changing it to formative assessment; assign page and do as many as you need to do to learn it. Skip around, and go over where they had trouble the next day. Now, just check that the student did something. Do I need a minimum? Instead of points, just check that it was done.
 * Making homework valuable and useful, not busy work; how can we make it a give and take; make it worth their while to do it.
 * Check samples; keep track of how many "correct" on various types of problems.
 * "Learning" binders/logs w/ formative assessments and student self assessments; show to students on BSN