Dear Content Contributor, I quite appreciate you for taking your time to regularly read our Weekly Tips. We believe that adapting some of the innovations into our classrooms activities will instill the necessary practical thinking in our students. Maryellen Weimer, in her published article titled “Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your Course", further asks this question: Can you teach s…

Dear Content Contributor, In our last episode, we encouraged Colleges and Departments to start thinking of engaging the services of Business Managers that will act as the link between the industries and the academia by translating research into classroom experience. John Clayton corroborates this when he said, “In general, research should be teaching-fed, and teaching should be research-led” I wil…

Dear Content Contributor,   With the recent happenings in the world economy, there is the need for Higher Educational institutions to start thinking of how to sustain their finances and meet up with their financial obligations. Few weeks ago, a regional conference was organised in Lome, Togo, where discussions were held on the Innovative Approaches to Funding Higher Education and Research in Afric…

  Dear Content Contributor,       Compliments of the season. I wish to express my profound appreciation for your support and comments so far received on the Weekly Tips issued by CISLT. I feel it is important that we remind ourselves of some salient points in the previous editions as we commence a new Academic Session, as follows:   1. The issue of our course design is paramount, due to the dynami…

Dear Content Contributor, I wish to sincerely appreciate you for the time spent in reading and commenting on our weekly tips since its debut, middle of this year. Your positive comments and constructive criticisms are impetus that have put us on the right path. However, this tip will be the last edition for the year 2014, as we promise to do more in the years ahead. Meanwhile, as we are set for …

Dear Content Contributor, As we are preparing to resume for active teaching and learning activities in few days to come, it is pertinent to plan our teaching strategies for the 2014/2015 Academic Session. However, as a University teacher, you have chosen to teach in the field of higher education because you are a subject-matter specialist with tremendous knowledge of your discipline. As you enter,…

Dear Content Contributor, As we are planning to resume for the 2014/2015 academic session, let us take a look at a write-up by Maryellen Weimer, on how to effectively use questions in improving students’ interaction and participation during lecture time. However, let us consider the following questions: How many questions will be on the test? How long should the paper be? Will there be extra…

Dear Content Contributor, During this period of our recess, I think it is appropriate to reflect on our just-concluded teaching activities in order to evaluate our approach, disposition and methodologies adopted and their effects on our students’ learning outcome based on Senate-approved results. We need to ask: Is there any aspect that needs a change for improvement? Here's a great resource from …

Dear Content Contributor, I hope you are enjoying your annual leave although; research activities are still on-going? However, I will like us to use this period to reflect on the concept of Teaching for Transformation.  Majority of high-performing teachers really want the best for their students; in terms of learning by regarding teaching as a high-impact profession that should be structured to ma…

Dear Content Contributor, The issue of mentoring in Higher Education cannot be over-emphasized. As one is progressing in teaching career, there is the need to share our experiences and challenges with new entrants into the field, in order to impact on them sound knowledge and give them positive direction in the area of effective teaching and learning. Let us read a published article from Patty H. …

Dear Content Contributor,   I want to use this medium to congratulate members of the FUNAAB Community on the successful completion of the 2013/2014 Academic Session. I wish all academic staff a blissful annual leave! However, as we are preparing for the forthcoming 2014/2015 Academic Session, I will like us to reflect on the issue of collaborative teaching,  as proposed by Karen Hughes Miller in h…

Dear Content Contributor, It is my pleasure to discuss the issue of effective grading and providing timely feedbacks to our students in a bid to improving our teaching and learning culture. Grading is the process of applying standardized measurements of varying levels of achievement in a course. Grades can be assigned as letters (Generally from A to F), or as a number (for example, 0 to 100). I be…