Faculty recruitment is important because it is the first step in the process of developing qualified and engaged faculty. Over-recruiting makes it challenging to fully engage faculty and under-recruiting…
Culturally Responsive Teaching and UDL
January 20, 2020 Gwen Bass, PhD, and Michael Lawrence-Riddell
Creating educational experiences for our students that integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a philosophy of education that centers students’ cultural backgrounds as essential…
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Purposeful Pauses and Mindful Communication: Good Techniques for Teachers
January 17, 2020 Tena Long Golding, PhD
The life of a faculty member is filled with noisy busyness—planning class sessions, grading, meeting with students, advising, committee work, research, scholarship, and publications. We are consumed by the…
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It’s Been a Privilege: A Series of Successful Teaching Techniques
January 15, 2020 Richard A. Giaquinto, PhD
It’s been a privilege to teach over some two decades, and during that time, I’ve found a series of techniques that were successful in the classroom. Here, I will…
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UDL and 21st Century Learning
January 13, 2020 Gwen Bass, PhD, and Michael Lawrence-Riddell
Put simply, “people learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone” (Mayer, 2005). Multimedia theory posits the idea that people’s brains more effectively integrate new information…
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In Effective Classroom Management
2,700 Minutes: How to Make the Most of Your Office Hours
January 10, 2020 Margaret Walsh PhD.
Most faculty schedule at least three office hours per week—that’s 2,700 minutes a semester. If you have 135 students, that’s 20 minutes for each student. Even if you have…
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Thomas Pfaff, PhD, is a professor of mathematics at Ithaca College. Pfaff’s primary scholarly work includes incorporating sustainability ideas into mathematics courses, where he maintains a blog on the…
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Emergency Takeover: 4 Tips for Taking Over a Course Midway
January 8, 2020 Shari Harding and Kara Wasnewsky
Unexpected circumstances can strike at any time, taking faculty away from their teaching duties before the end of a semester. Often, other faculty to have to step in to…
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Increasingly, instructors at the college level are called upon to create classroom learning experiences that can be characterized using terms like academically rigorous, accessible, differentiated, trauma-sensitive, inclusive, culturally relevant,…
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Using Interviews to Assess and Mentor Students
January 3, 2020 Barbara Morgan Gardner, PhD, and Kenneth L. Alford, PhD
Have you considered adding five-minute student interviews to your teaching tool kit? Before you calculate how long it would take to interview all of your students and dismiss this…
