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…
I recently wrote about wordriver (and my ambivalence regarding it). This week I'd like to touch on a markedly different publication, Kairos. Kairos is subtitled "A Journal…
This is it. This is the summer you will brush up on your teaching skills or your organization techniques. You know it will make your life easier…
I'm already planning my Fall courses. I start with the syllabus. It's a question about how many rules I want to put in the syllabus. I hate…
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…
The old, dirty flatbed truck two vehicles ahead if me is loaded down with assorted shopping carts. Had I noticed, I would have gotten in the other…
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…
I missed a deadline last week. I teach at ABC College, a proprietary school that is well-known for strict faculty grading deadlines, and I missed one. I…
New York University was recently found to be in violation of its adjunct professor union contract. The union’s contract requires NYU to compensate adjunct professors who are…
After months of negotiations, PCC’s Faculty Association will take a vote within the week to approve a new contract for the 2008-2009 academic year that contains no…
