During a recent physical, my doctor informed me that my blood pressure was off the charts. She asked if I was experiencing stress. I thought, “What academic—who cares about…
Building Self-Efficacy: How to Feel Confident in Your Online Teaching
December 2, 2020 Jill Lassiter, EdD
Now that we are into the realities of teaching in a COVID-world, I keep hearing similar sentiments from my colleagues, something to the effect of, “It’s going fine, but…
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Part Three of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Assignments
November 30, 2020 Justin Robertson, PhD
I would like to begin with one of the age-old dilemmas facing instructors. We all probably concur that teamwork is a key skill needed in our professional and personal…
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*Editor’s Note: This is an article from The Teaching Professor. If you are interested in similar articles, check out The Teaching Professor membership.** When students do poorly on an assignment, faculty generally…
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I came home from my second day of teaching my “HyFlex” class (some students in the classroom and others on Zoom) utterly discouraged. Despite my efforts at planning activities…
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Part Two of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Classroom Activities Throughout the Semester
November 23, 2020 Justin Robertson, PhD
One-minute papers have deservedly become one of the more common classroom activities deployed by teachers. This is consistent with Lang’s (2016a) perspective that “frequent low-stakes writing assignments constitute one…
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An Anti-Racist Form of Assessment: The C.A.P Model: Creative. Academic. Practical.
November 20, 2020 Kerry-Ann Escayg, PhD
Some profess that teaching is both an art and a science (Berliner, 1986, as cited in Marzano, 2007; Weisman, 2012). Well-honed pedagogies developed through deliberate practice, as well as…
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As an online instructor with many students, it is challenging to remember details about every learner who has passed through my virtual classroom. But there are some whom I…
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Part One of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Early Week Classroom Activities
November 16, 2020 Justin Robertson, PhD
With PhD in hand, I joined the academy without any real teaching training. As I sought to establish my teaching routine and define my teaching philosophy, I found an…
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Now More Than Ever: Why Collaborative Grading Works, Even Online
November 13, 2020 Christian Aguiar, Andrew M. Howard, and Ahmad Wright
Over the previous decade, researchers have made the case that engaging students in metacognition improves learning outcomes for students across fields (Zhao et al, 2014; Yeager & Dweck, 2012;…
