Greetings! Learning@Lehman offers a glance at recent perspectives in teaching and learning, posts reminders of this week’s faculty development opportunities, and describes a teaching strategy to increase student success.

Teaching and learning perspectives:

Wrapping Up a Large Online Course [also useful for medium and small online courses]

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/wrapping-up-a-large-online-course/61324

Using Music in the Foreign Language Classroom

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/using-music-foreign-language-classroom

STEM Should Broaden, Not Narrow, the Curriculum

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/stem-should-broaden-not-narrow-the-curriculum.html

Faculty development activities:

NOTE: Lehman will be closed November 26-29 for the Thanksgiving break.

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, lecture by Brian Siebert

Monday, November 23, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Theatre (Room 1218)

What We Bring: Immigration and the Arts

Tuesday, November 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (reservations required)

CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall (Room 1201)

Make a reservation at https://community.gc.cuny.edu/what_we_bring

General Faculty Meeting

Wednesday, December 2, 3:30-5 p.m.

East Dining Room, Music Building

This week’s teaching strategy:

Pyramids: Pyramids organize information from general to specific, lowest to highest, largest to smallest. A pyramid is a hierarchical organizer that relies on ranking rather than relationships; thus the dietary food pyramid ranks desirable daily food portions, and Bloom’s taxonomies rank levels of thinking (remembering is the lowest; evaluating or creating the highest). Pyramids help learners prioritize knowledge (and occasionally see progressions) without the complexity often required to complete a matrix or flow chart.

Questions? Comments? Stop by Old Gym 118 for more resources and discussion or email Gina Rae Foster <[email protected]>