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Eight Tips for Teaching to Empower All Students

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Reviewed:: May 20, 2025 by Faculty Development

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Overview:

This website material gives educators eight tips that they can use to improve the learning experiences of their students by empowering them. The tactics explained can be used by a variety of educational specialties to potentially improve students’ active participation, engagement, and interactions during their learning experiences for the course.

Type of Material:

Reference Material

Recommended Uses:

Perfect subject for new faculty convocations at the beginning of the academic year. Or, as a panel discussion on education.

Technical Requirements:

Device with internet access; Used Google Chrome browser

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Learners will have guidance on aspects of learning to keep in mind when creating and evaluating their curriculum choices.
Learners will have the option to access some additional resources that have the potential to improve their student-empowerment teaching practices.

Target Student Population:

The content is appropriate for use at the college level, general lower and upper division. It could be valuable for post graduate teaching assistants and aspiring teachers.

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

None

Content Quality

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Strengths:: The material provided clear examples of behaviors and activities educators can use to increase student agency and empowerment. The hyperlinked items provide educators with additional resources that expand the text.
Concerns:: Serves as a way to support the author's work which may put off readers. Doesn't include details of how online instruction might be different from F2F

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:: The tips provided by the materials could be utilized by educators of a variety of backgrounds and specialities, which makes it versatile. Also, the somewhat specific details that are included can be used as a guide, especially for those that are new to teaching or in early career teaching process.
Concerns:: While it seems the material discussed is good to know, there is not really any guidance on how a “new instructor” could incorporate these tactics into their classroom learning experiences. I would encourage the author to add either images (like screenshots of examples) or links to existing resources that could be of use when implementing that particular tip.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:: The website’s material is written clearly, allowing educators to incorporate these methods into their existing teaching practices, and it seems to meet accessibility requirements.
Concerns:: None

Other Issues and Comments:: This material would be good for existing educators to use to ensure that they are staying current with empowering teaching and learning strategies, but I do not feel there are enough details to support an instructor who is just starting out. Also, it was a little disheartening to see that most of the links went back to other documents the author created themselves; this kind of made them feel less credible when I am sure they are not the only ones saying this.
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