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Minitex News articles tagged with "Instruction" (60):

Try These Formative Assessment Ideas!

Formative Assessment has been defined as 

"the frequent, interactive checking of student progress and understanding in order to identify learning needs and adjust teaching appropriately."

Learn How to Offer Storytime for Grown Ups

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Student Engagement: Beginnings and Endings More Important Than the Middle

We librarians are educators.  And the work we do to educate is done in a variety of ways some seen and some unseen.  When we are faced with a classroom of students, whether in person or online, the task of engaging those students can seem rather daunting at times.  

Talking Race, Curriculum, and the Role of Libraries

Given current events both nationally and locally, a recent opinion piece in Education Week’s Commentary section grabbed my attention.  Written by a Minnesota professor, I think the piece is particularly challenging and worthy of discussion.  Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Assistant Professor of

Two Resources to Help Engage Our Online Learners

ACRL’s Instruction Section publishes a series of articles called Instructional Technologies Tips and Trends.

Taxonomy Alignment for Gaming (TAG)

If you’re working to create and incorporate more game-based instruction into your teaching, this graphic, Taxonomy Alignment for Gaming (TAG) by Allen Interactions could prove to be a handy,

New Tutorial for Archival Research

Archival research need not be intimidating or confusing to novice researchers.  Those students just learning for the first time how to discover rich primary sources on their topic or researchers who may need a refresher on the contents of a finding aid will find this new tutorial quite helpf

ACRL Highlights Top 10 Teaching Resources

The ACRL Instructional Section’s Teaching Methods Committee recently highlighted some top-recommended instructional sources. These 10 research articles provide insight into instructional design, pedagogical approach, assessment strategies, and more.