Try One Thing

To learn about the idea behind Try One Thing, please read the blog post by our director, Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein.

The Faculty Development Center would like to introduce you to "Try One Thing." The idea behind Try One Thing is to acknowledge the exemplary job so many of us often do in the classroom, but to also acknowledge that no matter how well we are doing in our teaching, there are always things we can do better. By suggesting you “Try One Thing,” we encourage you to continue doing what you do well, but to problematize what may not be working. Can you find one thing you can do differently, to address a teaching problem? 

The Faculty Development Center will be doing more in our programming, in our newsletter, on our website, and on our social media, to offer up ideas that might work for you. We encourage you, as strongly as we can, to share the One Thing you’ve tried. Your work to problematize your teaching, and offer up your own solutions for others, will help us, collectively, serve our students better. See how others have "Tried One Thing" by visiting our Teaching Blog. We would love for you to join us by trying one thing and submitting a short entry to tell us how it went.