Jeremiah Parry-Hill--As part of RIT’s 2017 New Faculty Orientation, I led an interactive exercise called “Best and Worst Class” that comes from Maryellen Weimer’s Teaching Professor blog (link: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/first-day-of-class-activities-that-create-a-climate-for-learning/) Weimer proposes that by getting students to take an activ

Rebecca Johnson--One of my favorite books is How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose and others. The chapter I turn to again and again is “What Factors Motivate Students to Learn?” Ambrose, et al, make it clear that while we may worry about how to engage students, ultimately it’s the students who have to make decisions about how they spend their time and focus their attention.