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Planning Your Class

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Planning Your Class

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Teaching Your Class

Strategy 8: Connections to other courses.

Why do this?

This contextualizes concepts and helps students draw on what they already know to better understand a new idea. This also helps students build the ability to connect concepts beyond the classroom, which allows for learning to have a more meaningful and longer lasting impact. This is also especially helpful in classes that are made up of students from a variety of disciplines. This is mainly in classes that are often used to fulfill distribution requirements, but occurs in other classes as well.

How do I do this?

When teaching a new topic, try connecting it to concepts or ideas that students may already be familiar with. For example, when distinguishing between climate and weather in a class, you can refer to the psychological distinction between mood and affect.

Resources

This link incorporates a video which explains the benefits of applying course materials to broader themes and subjects outside the classroom in introductory courses. This approach will make the subject matter of classes accessible to a wide array of students and encourage them to think about what they are learning in a deeper way.

http://www.ideaedu.org/Resources-Events/Teaching-Learning-Resources/Gaining-a-broader-understanding-and-appreciation-of-intellectual-cultural-activity

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