Keep a personal teaching journal. Review the portfolios of others and model yours on the best you find. Tip Sheet 38 1. Learner centered planning is good. Use a one sentence summary to develop a course specific goal.
Appropriate feedback is immediate, specific, corrective, positive.
Assessment techniques can be used to improve teaching and student learning. Multi-user interface programs allow people to interact simultaneously and, if you choose, anonymously. These programs would be very helpful in creative writing classes. Students can post their work anonymously and judge each others' work anonymously. Conflict could be reduced and a sense of freedom could increase.