1. Make Sense, Please! Video Project On College Student Perceptions of Good Teaching Charlie Rathbone, UDL Staff Puja Gupta, UDL Staff

2. Why This Study? Wanted to see how the student perceptions matched up with the research Interested to see how much “street cred” the research had

3. This Afternoon… View portion of an actual interview Generate and Share categories Share and discuss student examples from Pedagogy Watch the theme video on “organization” Share UDL Principles Find the students in the UDL Principle REPRESENTATION – Match of student perceptions to research? – Street Credibility of research? Final Observations

4. The Video Study Video interviews of nine students – Male and Female – Undergraduates and Graduates – Rising Sophomores to Just Graduated – Traditional and Non-Traditional (all “young”) – ACCESS students included Qualitative Methodology – Wrote transcripts of the video recordings – Analyzed data using a process of recursive thematic analysis Asked same questions – What’s UVM like for you? – What happens in a course that works for you in terms of your learning? – What happens in a course that doesn’t work for you in terms of your learning? – If you could address new faculty at the NFO to tell them how to be successful teachers at UVM, what would you say?

5. Actual Interview What strikes you as important information re: learning ? Jay Recently Graduated Senior

6. Organizing Themes Characteristics of Good Teaching Characteristics of Not-So-Good Teaching Characteristics of the Good Teacher Characteristics of A Good Course

7. Characteristics of Good Teaching Reciprocity between teacher and students – Learning Materials – Pedagogy – Caring – Power

8. Pedagogy Class Structure Awareness Feedback Presence Fresh Presentations Connections

9. Characteristics of Not-So-Good Teaching Absence of Reciprocity – Psychic Cost – Appearance – Personalized – Poor Course Organization – Student Reaction – Other

10. Characteristics of the Good Teacher What they do as teachers – Enthusiasm – Relationship – Course Content Who they are as people – Teach people – Go beyond and connect with students – Love what they do – Has perspective on work demands – Entertaining and Hard

11. Characteristics of a Good Course Course Organization – Size – Coherence – Readings – Technology – Structure/Order Assessment – Essay Exams – Transparency – Preparation for The “Felt” Level – Relationship is personal

12. Edited Video: Instruction That Works For You Saveta Jake Tim

13. How Do These Student-Identified Characteristics Intersect With The CAST UDL Principles? Multiple Options for Representation Multiple Options for Expression and Activity Multiple Options for Engagement We are asking you intersect our student examples in Pedagogy with the UDL principle of Representation.

14. Preliminary Observations Students and Experts do recommend many of the same characteristics of good teaching. There is convergence across the two frameworks. From the grounded perspective of the students, UDL research does validate what they consider to be good teaching, mostly; the importance of human relationship to learning is weak as is the importance of day to day course organization

15. Preliminary Observations From the UDL perspective, more could be done to reach all students, most notably in two important Engagement categories – Student Goal Setting – Increasing Mastery From both perspectives, The Felt World and the Thinking World are central to the learning experience. From the neuroscience perspective, they are the same.

16. How Do These Student Identified Characteristics Intersect Current Research On Good University Teaching? 1.Create a natural critical learning environment 2.Get their attention and keep it 3.Start with the students rather than the disciplines 4.Seek commitments 5.Help students learn outside of class 6.Engage students in disciplinary thinking 7.Create diverse learning experiences Bain, K. (2004). What The Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.