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Learning Model Reflection Series: Peer Classroom Observation

Visiting with skilled colleagues as a means to improve our own skills is hardly a new idea.  All kinds of professionals use Peer Classroom Observation as a way to learn more and more deeply about their craft.  Professional educators have been doing so for years.  Recently, several f... [More]
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Watch One, Do One, Teach One

In veterinarian school Garth Waddoups came to appreciate a simple teaching method called Watch one, Do one, Teach one.  It gave him the opportunity to observe, practice, and explain a medical procedure.  These three different ways of learning were helpful as he sought to understand ... [More]
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Grade Center Gotchas – tips to avoid a catastrophe

By Orren Squires It’s a fact - ask 10 faculty and you’ll get 15 Grade Center catastrophe stories.  We’ve all heard them or even worse, experienced them.  These range from “All my grades were wrong and I had to fill out grade change cards” to “What... [More]
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Faculty Voices: Todd Lines

Mercy or Sanity? Managing Student Late Work In my second year teaching at BYU-Idaho I ran into a dilemma. The pre-med students that I teach need to take the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) early in their undergraduate experience so that they can meet medical school application dead... [More]
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The Spori Summit Tradition Continues:

There’s something about plentiful food and mountain air, interesting company and no cell-phone signal that make for a great retreat.  Throw in practical and meaningful discussions about learning and teaching at BYU-Idaho and the retreat becomes the Spori Summit.  The Spori Summit... [More]
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