A few years ago, i wrote a blog post that i called the dip. It was my attempt at describing what i saw as an often archetype of how a semester goes. Do you find that in your classes? Do you experience this dip? And if so, are there any techniques you use to try to either accommodate it, oror bring people back,. Or just even recognize that it's happening? Good question. Yes. There are those ups and downs. In the senester. Sometimes after that first exam, there's a little bit of a lull or a break. You really just don't want them to give up that, not that drive; still touch that statistics many times.
Brenda Gunderson shares approaches for motivating large classes on episode 160 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I’m always looking for one new thing, one new idea to try in an upcoming term.
I think it’s important that I keep learning. And not just learning inside my own discipline, but learning outside my discipline.
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