Module 1
Essential Employability Skills
This module will help you integrate EES into your courses to equip our students with these vital skills that are so critical in day-to-day living as well as the workplace. You’ll find ideas and tips on everything from getting started with EES to learning strategies to try out in the classroom!
Module 2
Giving Students Feedback
This module explores the challenges and opportunities associated with providing on-time, effective feedback to students in the classroom. Feedback is a vital and challenging part of the on-going conversation instructors have with learners and this module examines the barriers, myths and misconceptions associated with feedback while providing effective tips and tools to try out in your classroom!
- Ever wonder how giving students feedback makes a difference?
- What students say about feedback
- Know the terms
- 5 Guiding principles to give effective feedback
- 5 Main barriers to giving students feedback
- True or False? Myths and misconceptions
- Tips and tools to try
- What teachers say about giving students effective feedback
- Source & Links
- Ever wonder how giving students feedback makes a difference?
- What students say about feedback
- Know the terms
- 5 Guiding principles to give effective feedback
- 5 Main barriers to giving students feedback
- True or False? Myths and misconceptions
- Tips and tools to try
- What teachers say about giving students effective feedback
- Source & Links
Module 3
Gathering Student Feedback
This module focuses on collecting timely, accurate feedback from students—a vital practice to ensure that we understand how individuals and cohorts are experiencing their learning and grasping key concepts. Along with exploring the myriad benefits to instructors, this module includes tools to collect feedback and tips for usefully integrating student feedback.
Module 4
Grading Students Work
This module examines the complex and challenging process of designing evaluation systems and grading student work. We know how important grades are to students and how time-consuming and stressful providing graded feedback to students can be for faculty. The principles, tips and systems discussed in this module are designed to support processes and practice that help to meet both student and faculty needs!
Module 5
Critical Thinking: Learning, Teaching and Assessment
This module engages with the development of a critical thinking rubric. The module includes the rubric and a number of assignments that were modified using the rubric.