“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 that, getting through the day without screwing anything up is, in my book, a level of success that...
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 what can we.
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 myself lucky if.
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 up front frees me up both in terms of being able to schedule personal time, and also allows...
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 are an old.
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 off over the.
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 whole person, much as we might look at our students. This will include topics like: stress management; organization...
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 to use artificial.
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 – universities and colleges.
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 traditionally stopped accepting applications for admission and have a good sense of who will be in their incoming...
