Support For All Students With A Focus On Neurodiversity

“I recently met Emma, an autistic college student, who talked about navigating life at a mid-Atlantic university. Professors, she said, ‘can make or break your experience’ in a course. Her favorite instructors ‘…made me feel like I belonged in the class’, as opposed to those who only ‘followed through with my accommodations because they were…

Assessments: Rethinking Quizzes and Tests

“We have such an opportunity to use our classrooms as experimental places where we can really affect change.”  –Karen Cangialosi Hello, faculty! One topic that got more interest from our newsletter last semester was information on varying assessments. If you attended the Kahoot! session at the recent  New Approaches to Teaching and Learning conference, you…

Welcome back! Spring ’24

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” -G.K. Nielson Hello, faculty! Instructional Development is excited to continue sharing with you our newsletter, This Week in ID, now bi-monthly. Each newsletter (or Instructional Development site blog post) will include information based on a theme that coincides with the ebbs and…