We've stacked our semester tower carefully, and we just have to keep it balanced a few more weeks. You're doing great! Here is a range of a few, small suggestions, courtesy of our colleagues at Oakland University! They might just add a little interest and reflection to your last weeks of the semester - without adding too much to what you already have going on.
On Being Wrong: Cultivating Inclusion, Humility, and a Growth Mindset - the last part of the semester might be a great time to encourage your students to think through mistakes made on the way to learning. This post has prompts not just for your students but also for you to own up to being wrong.
Collaborative Testing: Maintaining Rigor While Increasing Critical Thinking - describes a strategy for group exams, after individual exams. Students are only eligible for the group grade if they've passed the individual exam with a 78% or better.
Active Listening in Small Groups - simple step-by-step instructions to cultivate intentional listening around a specific topic. Active listening may re-energize students (and instructors) slogging through the final assignments and units.
Stump the Professor: A Learning Challenge For You and Your Students - another idea that could be started now. Students challenge you (via email so you have time to prepare for class) to connect the analytical frames of your field to something else that you love. A linguistics professor asks her students to send her dance music tunes! What could your students stump you with?
