Professional

Professional Teaching is one of four pillars of teaching quality defined by UO and includes:

  • readily available, coherently organized, and high quality course materials; syllabi that establish student workload, learning objectives, grading, and class policy expectations.
  • respectful and timely communication with students. Respectful teaching does not mean that the professor cannot give appropriate critical feedback.
  • students' activities in and out of class designed and organized to maximize student learning.

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'Welcome Modules': Opening the Door to Your Canvas Course

Teaching and Learning Topics

A Welcome Module is a “place” in your Canvas course where you orient students to the course: its academic content, how it is organized, and the technology you will use. It is also helpful to provide students with guidance on strategies they can use to succeed in the course. Finally, you can use the…

Providing a Clear Path Through Your Course

Teaching and Learning Topics

As you plan your course, consider how you will structure your Canvas site to make clear to your students where to find and access the materials and platforms you will be using. Students have reported difficulty orienting to the variety of different platforms, external resources, and…

Coordinating Teaching Teams

Teaching at UO

Faculty and graduate student teachers who collaborate across lecture and linked discussion sections and labs face distinct challenges–and also enjoy special opportunities to collaborate and deepen student learning. This page offers questions faculty can use as a guide during first meetings…

Learning Objectives and Backward Design

Teaching at UO

The gold standard for course design is to begin the process by articulating goals for student learning (learning objectives) and then align the activities, tone, and assignments of the class with them. Educational developers call this process of articulation and alignment “backward design” (Wiggins…

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