Teaching Success Stories (Read some of these stories below)

The Faculty Development Center would like to call on all AUS faculty to share their teaching success stories. This would be a great opportunity for all of us to learn from one another. Tell us about your method, procedure, technique, an activity or a task that you have designed or adapted which has proved to be a great success in achieving any of the following objectives/teaching aspects: 

• Establishing rapport with your students
• Motivating your students
• Assessing your students’ learning
• Improving your students interaction and class participation
• Promoting critical thinking skills
• Boosting students’ creativity and innovation
• Assigning group and individual projects
• Designing exams, tasks, and activities
• Selecting and adapting course materials
• Linking what students learn in the classroom to the outside world
• Evaluating students’ work
• Communicating your expectations
• Learning about students’ needs, communication styles, learning preferences, strengths, and weaknesses
• Creating trust, respect and appreciation between you and your students
• Dealing with classroom management issues
• Providing opportunities for speaking
• Providing opportunities for writing
• Any other aspects

 Here is what to do:

1. Tell us, in writing, what it is that you do/have done to accomplish any of the teaching aspects mentioned above, which proved to be a success. 
2. Make  a reference to the class(es) where the teaching takes place:
   • Subject (e.g., physics, engineering, literature, writing, management, accounting, design, math, history, politics, philosophy, language, etc.)
   • Students’ level (e.g., freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, mixed levels, or graduates)
3. Write your account/narrative in a very simple way (you are writing to those who may wish to replicate your method in their classes)
4. Your story can be as short as a paragraph, or as long as you want it to be
5. Send your story as an email attachment to fdc@aus.edu with the subject ‘success story’

Stories relevant to this call will be published on the FDC Website under the heading “Teaching Success Stories.”

Let’s learn from each other, send your teaching success story.  The FDC wants to hear from all of you and promote your teaching success!

Please see below some of the stories we received

Listening to Students

A Question of Interest

Let them Plagiarize to their Hearts' Content

RF Transmitters and Large Classes