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Instructional Job Aids

Assessing Your Teaching Effectiveness
This job aid describes some methods you can use to analyze and improve your instruction, using your own observation and records and by gathering feedback from your students. This job aid will help you to: decide which qualities of your teaching to evaluate; choose an appropriate assessment method; make changes to improve your teaching. Includes techniques for online courses., Level R.
Classroom Assment Techniques
This job aid describes some simple, non-threatening ways you can evaluate your students’ learning and their reaction to your teaching methods. This job aid will help you to: plan and conduct a classroom assessment; analyze the feedback; make changes to improve learning as early as the next class. Includes techniques for online courses., Instructional Job Aid, published, peer reviewed. Level R.
Creating a Rubric
This job aid describes rubrics and their usefulness in assessing student performance that is difficult to assess in traditional ways. This job aid will help you to: create a well-designed rubric; ensure objectivity and fairness in the rubric., Instructional Job Aid, published. Level R.
Designing and Using Visuals
This job aid describes how effective visuals can enhance your teaching. It contains techniques and guidelines to help you create and use effective visuals. This job aid will help you to: use best practice techniques for the design of visuals (text and graphics); use sound and animation in presentation software appropriately. Includes techniques for online courses., Level R.
Developing Checklists and Rating Systems
This job aid describes how to assess student performance or products using checklists and rating scales. This job aid will help you to: select the appropriate tool based on the learning outcome; create well-designed checklists and rating scales; ensure objectivity and fairness in checklists and rating scales., Instructional Job Aid, published. Level R.
Developing Written Tests
This job aid describes several types of written tests and explains when each type is best used. It includes a discussion on using graphics in test questions. This job aid will help you to: decide on the most appropriate test questions for assessing learning; match test questions with desired learning outcomes; develop effective short-answer, long-answer, multiple-choice, and true/false test questions; construct test questions that include graphics. Includes techniques for online courses., Level R.
Effective Use of Group Work
This job aid describes the educational value and the ingredients of effective group learning. It contains many examples of group learning tasks. This job aid will help you to: form productive learning groups; select appropriate group learning tasks; facilitate group learning; evaluate group learning outcomes. Includes techniques for online courses., Instructional Job Aid, published. Level R.
Increasing Student Motivation
This job aid explains the importance of motivation in learning and describes internal and external motivation. This job aid will help you to: rate your ability to increase your students’ motivation; add motivational strategies to your course and lesson plans. Includes techniques for online courses., Published. Level R.
Making Large Lectures Interactive
This job aid describes the best use of lectures and provides five steps for planning your lectures so they are more interactive. This job aid will help you to: use strategies that actively involve students in their learning; increase your students’ retention of learning., Instructional Job Aid, published. Level R.
Managing Student Behaviour
This job aid describes the most effective ways to increase the likelihood of positive student behaviour in your classes. This job aid will help you to: plan ahead to increase positive student behaviour; prevent or defuse disruptive behaviour; handle problems when they arise; manage the classroom environment with an awareness of your authority and responsibilities. Includes techniques for online courses., Instructional Job Aid, Published. Level R.
Preparing and Using Student Handouts
This job aid describes the characteristics of effective handouts and describes some of the most commonly used handouts. This job aid will help you to: select the appropriate type of handout for the planned learning outcomes of your class; prepare effective handouts. Includes techniques for online courses., Instructional Job Aid, Published. Level R.
Preparing Lesson Plans
This job aid provides guidelines for planning each stage of a lesson, identifies appropriate teaching techniques to suit the lesson, and provides a sample lesson plan template. This job aid will help you to: help people learn, based on an understanding of how people learn; structure your lessons for deeper and richer learning., Instructional Job Aid, Published. Level R.
Starting off on the Right Foot
This job aid explains why good beginnings are important and tells you what you should do to get off to a good start at the beginning of a new course. This job aid will help you to: make sure you are completely prepared to deliver the course before classes start; make your first day of class have lasting impact and set the tone; establish an excellent learning environment in the first few classes that will continue throughout the course. Includes techniques for online courses., Instructional Job Aid, Published. Level R.
Teaching Multilingual Students
This job aid describes the instructional strategies for leveraging the diversity in your classes to promote students’ academic and future professional success. This job aid will help you to: foster positive classroom dynamics; make lessons accessible and effective for all students; facilitate group learning; give effective feedback; choose visuals that enhance teaching and learning. Multilingual students refers to students whose primary language is not English and who may face challenges in their studies that are distinct from those that native English-speaking students face. Sometimes they are called English as a Second Language students or English as an Additional Language students. Everything in this job aid can be applied to all learning environments, including online learning., Instructional Job Aid, Published. Level R.
Using Questions Effectively
This job aid describes the educational value of asking questions and explains how you can enhance learning through the use of questioning. This job aid will help you to: select the appropriate types of questions for particular teaching situations; design a sequence of questions to deepen learning on a particular topic; manage question and answer exchanges to encourage participation. Includes techniques for online courses., Instructional Job Aid, Published. Level R.
Writing Learning Outcomes
This job aid explains the importance of learning outcomes and describes their connection with program goals. It defines the categories (domains) of learning outcomes and identifies the levels within these categories. This job aid will help you to: write focused learning outcomes for your courses that reflect the knowledge, skills, or attitudes and the level of learning required; ensure that your course has an appropriate number of learning outcomes., Instructional Job Aid, Published. Level R.