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…
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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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…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
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…
In Effective Classroom Management
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…
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…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
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…
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;…
November 11, 2020 Jessica Evans
The pandemic took us all by surprise, and it completely turned our education world upside down. Without many options, instructors had to make extreme adaptations to their instruction to…
