“C is for competent; it’s good enough for me.” I sometimes sing this little parody of Sesame Street in my head. What this means to me is…
The Mentor Is In
If you have been teaching for at least a semester, you may have noticed that students don’t do the reading we assign them, shocker, I know. So…
For an adjunct, one of the biggest hassles can be managing diverse avenues of communication at multiple schools. At the beginning of every academic year I consider…
My friends often comment upon my penchant for organization, but I tell them, the reason I am organized is because I am extremely lazy. Investing the time…
This post is about thinking through and crafting your teaching philosophy. You may be in a discipline where this is a common practice, but even if you…
For many of us, the year opens like gates at a horse racetrack. To outsiders, it may have seemed like we got a ridiculous amount of time…
In this blog, I plan to cover teaching from a holistic stand-point. That is, I want to look at how we teach from the position of the…
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by Nicholas Tampio, Asim Ali, Patricia A. Young and Shital Thekdi One of the most intense discussions taking place among university faculty is whether to permit students…
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by Caroline Chun It’s no longer news that one of the first professional sectors threatened by the rapid adoption of ChatGPT and generative AI is education –…
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We must take steps to help students catch up before we lose even more of them. by Kathryn Boucher By June, many U.S. colleges and universities have…