Students have an understanding that when they attend a class they will be expected to perform some type of work to receive a grade. Classroom performance often…
The Mentor Is In
There’s a difference for instructors between getting along with students and finding a way to work with them throughout the duration of the class. Instructors who develop…
As an instructor, what does it mean to be a good listener? Is it about the actions taken when responding to a learner’s message? When an adult…
This is a companion to my last post about classroom maintenence. In this post, I want to segue from maintaining our physical environment, to maintaining our health. Crafting…
In my teaching philosophy, the student is embedded within a context, an environment, that can either help or hinder learning. Today I want to talk about an…
The question, dear Horatio, is how often do you change your course material? Textbooks come out with new editions seemingly every year (or bi-annually at the very…
One of my little tricks of the trade is to get my students moving. I sprinkle activities throughout my course design that makes them get out of…
This past week, there was an article in InsideHigherEd about a professor who found herself yanked from her biology classroom at Louisiana State University after students complained…
Over the years I have given a great deal of thought to grading, incentives, and fairness. One anecdote will illustrate what started me on the road to…
[private]Pedagogy is the art of getting people to learn. As college professors, teaching people how to learn is at the heart of our profession. The activities we…
