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Is Your Flip Flopping?
by Sandy Gambill, Sr. Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Have you put in countless hours recording lectures for a flipped classroom, only to find the model isn’t working as well as you had hoped?...
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Designing Effective Lesson Plans
by Kelly McEnerney, Graduate Assistant, Reinert Center Imagine you will be teaching a class next week without textbook-prescribed course modules, chapters, and PowerPoint slides that dictate what...
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Portfolios as Tools for Reflection
by Gina Merys, Associate Director, Reinert Center This past weekend (March 18-19), the Reinert Center co-hosted our annual Academic Portfolio Retreat. Over a two day period, invited facilitator, Dr....
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Establishing Credibility in the Classroom: Day One Tips
by Mitch Lorenz, Graduate Student, Psychology My first teaching assignment fell into my lap unexpectedly at the institution where I received my Master’s degree. This seemed like good fortune and a...
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The Love and Joy of Learning
by Kenneth L. Parker, Steber Professor in Theological Studies In October 1985, I entered a Benedictine monastery in the Mojave Desert to prepare for a life of prayer and reflection. The previous 25...
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What Teaching at Saint Louis University has Taught Me
by Lenin Grajo, Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy The reflections shared in this post were edited from the reflection I gave during the recently concluded Spring...
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Start Small: Tips for Fostering Effective Class Discussion
If you’re looking for small ways to enhance class discussions – whether in online or on-ground courses – you might find our two newest resource guides of interest. The tips presented in the Fostering...
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Teaching International Students
by Gina Merys, Associate Director, Reinert Center As we look ahead to the fall semester, and the arrival of the first official cohort of INTO students arriving in our classrooms, the summer is a good...
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Teaching Online: A 24 X 7 Job
by Sandy Gambill, Senior Instructional Developer, Reinert Center When working with professors to develop online courses, the questions I get asked most often have to do with student contact. How will I...
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New Resource Guide on Difficult Dialogues
A new resource guide on Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom[LINK] has been posted to the Reinert Center website [LINK]. If you want to talk with someone about difficult dialogues in your own classes,...
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New Resource Guides
Two new resource guides have been posted to the Reinert Center website: Creating a Plan for Alternative Assessment of Teaching [LINK] Understanding Student Ratings in Teaching [LINK] If you want to...
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Mindful Minutes: Towards a Contemplative Pedagogy
by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center I recently attended a workshop* on contemplative pedagogy at the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)...
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Sustainability Pedagogy
by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center In August 2016, the Reinert Center co-sponsored a daylong workshop focused on sustainability in curriculum development and individual course...
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A Creative Teaching Tip that Doesn’t Involve Reinventing the Wheel
by Elizabeth Gockel-Blessing, Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science PROLOGUE: Setting the Stage For over 20 years, I taught a...
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Collecting and Reacting to Student Feedback
by Mitch Lorenz, Graduate Assistant, Reinert Center When thinking about asking students for feedback there are a number of factors to consider. Your motivation as the instructor, the students’...
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Discovering Student Metacognitive Learning Strategies Using the Motivated...
by Chris Grabau, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Understanding college student’s internal motivations toward learning can provide useful insight when both designing and teaching a course....
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Giving Students Agency: A Resource Guide
by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Feeling a sense of agency, or “the intention and capability to take action with respect to one’s learning,” can be an empowering experience for...
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Resource Guide: Two Paths to Student-Created Rubrics
by Gina Merys, Associate Director, Reinert Center Using rubrics to aid in the assessment of written assignments can be an inclusive teaching practice, when students have access to that rubric before...
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Teaching on/and Sexual Violence
by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center From March to November 2017, the freestanding blog “Conditionally Accepted” will feature a series of weekly posts about sexual violence and...
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Using This Summer to Transform Your Teaching and Learning
by Yang (Emily) Li, Graduate Assistant, Reinert Center Transformational learning is a reflection process to rethink life changes and events and gain new meaning out of our classroom, community and...
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