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Planning for effective, skills-building group projects
Group projects don’t necessarily build teamwork skills. Instructors need to teach and support skill development.
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How lectures can help build students’ listening skills
Effective listening is a valuable life and career skill that instructors can help students develop.
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Advancing research skills training by building student autonomy
Understanding research independence can help identify level-appropriate strategies for skill development.
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Five best practices for graduate student professional development
How some Canadian research universities approach graduate professional development.
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How to get students to read your syllabus
Use the first class of the term to show students how to use the syllabus and create a plan to direct them back to the syllabus over the semester.
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Syllabus design boot camp, day 5: finishing touches
In the final stages of syllabus design, don’t forget to include your course policies.
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Syllabus design boot camp, day 4: create the schedule
Creating a workable course schedule for you and your students.
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Syllabus design boot camp, day 3: from learning outcomes to assignments
How to design assignments that meet your learning outcomes needs while paying attention to student workloads as well as your own.
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Syllabus design boot camp, day 2: course learning materials
How to select course learning materials, including reading lists, that meet your learning outcomes needs while paying attention to student workloads and diversity.
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Five days to a well-designed syllabus: introducing the syllabus design boot camp
Day 1 walks you through creating the template and establishing your learning outcomes.
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Integrating skills training and course learning outcomes
Three easy steps to selecting your course learning outcomes and integrating skills training.
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Moving skills instruction from implicit to explicit outcomes
Give your students clear learning objectives and concrete opportunities to apply what they are learning.
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Not sure which career skill to teach? Start here.
Start with skills that come naturally to you, rather than trying to integrate ones that you are struggling to master yourself.
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Three reasons to include skills training in your classes
As instructors we need to draw clear lines between what we teach and students’ future careers.
