Tuesday, June 24, 2014

More Excellence in Teaching

Our third installment of the Excellence in Teaching Showcase brings us ideas from Stephen Mujeye (CIS) and Sarah Ruthven (ART). Stephen wrote them up for us to show off to all of you!

Stephen Mujeye, Instructor of Networking in Computer Information Systems wrote about pedagogy, and the teaching strategy was using technology as appropriate and available. The assignment was to teach students how they can use Group Policy in Server 2008 to set the homepage site on all network computers. The instructor was going to demonstrate a similar policy in Group Policy and then a volunteer students would be selected to lead others in setting and changing the homepage site for all computers.

Stephen's lesson is a great way to get students involved in peer-to-peer instruction, and as we all know, teaching something is a great way to master it.

Sarah Ruthven, Instructor of Art History wrote about pedagogy and the teaching strategy was holding students accountable to performance expectations. The assignment was an Art History I research assignment. The assignment included annotations and three Canvas discussion boards for each preparation step of:

  1. Theme and Images
  2. Topic Statement
  3. Organization

The assignment would be graded for completion and comments will be provided to students by the instructor.

Sarah's lesson is a great way to informally scaffold an assignment and keep students on track.

For more information about either of these assignments, contact Stephen or Sarah, and stay tuned for even more from MCC faculty members on how they exemplify Excellence in Teaching.