{"id":9828,"date":"2016-06-26T18:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2016-06-26T18:06:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:06:43","slug":"small-changes-big-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/small-changes-big-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Changes = Big Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols<\/p>\n<p>James Lang's recent series in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the small changes that faculty can make to their teaching to improve learning in their courses has been compiled and can now be found on a single page of the Chronicle web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/specialreport\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching\/44\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/specialreport\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching\/44<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His tips include how to spend the first and last 5 minutes of class, how to help students connect your course content with the outside world, giving students some control over their learning plus several other tips.\u00a0 If you like what you read on the Chronicle page, you may want to read James Lang's book:\u00a0 Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, was published by Jossey-Bass: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1118944496,miniSiteCd-JBHIGHERED.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1118944496,miniSiteCd-JBHIGHERED.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the series in the Chronicle ended with an essay, not included on the above page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-or-Big\/236839\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-or-Big\/236839\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still can't get enough?\u00a0 Then join the conversation on Twitter at @LangOnCourse or using the hashtag #SmallTeaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols James Lang's recent series in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the small changes that faculty can make to their teaching to improve learning in their courses has been compiled and can now be found on a single page of the Chronicle web site: http:\/\/chronicle.com\/specialreport\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching\/44. His tips include how to spend the <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/small-changes-big-improvements\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Small Changes = Big Improvements\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-faculty-development","7":"category-teaching","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2yw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2194,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/dealing-with-cheating\/","url_meta":{"origin":9828,"position":0},"title":"Dealing with Cheating","author":"Elizabeth Yost Hammer","date":"October 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, I get asked about cheating a lot. 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