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- It’s Time for a Change August 6
- Take Advantage of Opportunities to Sustain Your Instructional Vitality July 26
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom Collaboration July 24
- Taking Risks in Your Teaching July 19
- Giving and Receiving Instructional Advice July 16
- Leveraging Wikipedia to Develop Students’ Writing Skills July 9
- “What Were You Thinking of When You Decided on That Rating?” July 8
- Thinking about What Happened. . . June 27
- A More Strategic Approach to Arranging Students into Groups June 20
- Remembering the Coach Who Was a Teacher June 13
- Ready for College? June 9
- Five Keys to Motivating Students June 6
- Making the Grading Process More Transparent June 5
- An Innovative Quiz Strategy June 1
- What to Do About Those Negative Comments on Course Evaluations May 30
- Rethinking Rereading May 23
- The Benefits of Study Groups May 16
- Learner-Centered Teaching: 10 Ideas for Getting Started May 15
- Cheating: Can We Be Doing More to Promote Academic Integrity? May 9
- Using Reading Prompts to Encourage Critical Thinking May 8
- Scenarios: Is It Cheating? May 3
- Learning Objectives: Where We Start and Where We End May 2
- The Hardest Students to Teach April 25
- An Innovative Postexam Review Activity April 18
- Activities that Promote Awareness of What Is and Isn’t Cheating April 11
- Fact Sheet on Cheating in College April 5
- Course Workload: What Influences Student Perceptions? April 4
- What SoTL Research Does and Doesn’t Give Us March 27
- Those Indispensable Colleagues March 20
- Students as a Forgotten Ally in Preventing Cheating March 13
- Confronting the Myth of Multitasking: A Collection of Tools and Resources March 6
- Cell Phone Policies: A Review of Where Faculty Stand March 6
- Making Multiple-Choice Exams Better March 2
- Deeper Thinking about Active Learning February 28
- Multiple-Choice Tests: Revisiting the Pros and Cons February 21
- Is My Teaching Learner-Centered? February 14
- A Collaborative Midterm Student Evaluation February 8
- Save Time and Promote Learning? Yes, You Can! February 7
- Can Anything be Done about Students Multitasking? January 31
- Examining Our Course Policies January 24
- A Memo to Students on Cheating January 17
- ‘That’s So Unfair!’ January 15
- Student Views of the Student Evaluation Processes January 12
- As You’re Preparing the Syllabus . . . January 10
- Priceless Gift Exchanges between Faculty and Students December 13, 2017
- Tulips, Tinfoil, and Teaching December 6, 2017
- Benefits of Giving Students Choices November 29, 2017
- Examining the Unexamined: Why Do Students Procrastinate? November 15, 2017
- What Do Students Do When They Study? November 13, 2017
- Questions for Bringing Your Instructional Practices into Focus November 10, 2017
- What about Teacher Entitlement? November 8, 2017
- ‘Prof, I Need an Extension …’ November 3, 2017
- Could Your Assignments Use a Tune-Up? November 1, 2017
- Helping Students Recognize Quality Work, Fix What Isn’t Good October 25, 2017
- How Should We Respond to Student Entitlement? October 18, 2017
- Scenarios to Facilitate Discussion on Student Entitlement October 18, 2017
- Peer Assessment: Benefits of Group Work October 12, 2017
- Designing Developmentally: Simple Strategies to Get Students Thinking October 11, 2017
- Student Entitlement: Key Questions and Short Answers October 4, 2017
- Examining the Helicopter Professor Label September 27, 2017
- How Should I Study for the Exam? September 20, 2017
- How to Make our Conversations about Teaching More Productive September 13, 2017
- Reflections on Learning: Giving Students Assignments They Hate September 13, 2017
- Getting Students to Take Responsibility for Learning September 6, 2017
- Ways to Promote Student Responsibility for Learning September 6, 2017
- A Challenge to Current Grading Practices August 30, 2017
- A Memo to My Students as the New Semester Begins August 23, 2017
- Teacher Characteristics and Behaviors that Make a Difference August 16, 2017
- How Good Are Your Discussion Facilitation Skills? August 9, 2017
- The Importance of Learning Students’ Names August 2, 2017
- Facilitating Discussion: Five Factors that Boost Student Engagement July 27, 2017
- Four Student Misconceptions about Learning July 26, 2017
- First Day of Class Activities that Create a Climate for Learning July 19, 2017
- Class Participation: What Behaviors Count? July 13, 2017
- Group Exams and Quizzes: Design Options to Consider July 12, 2017
- My Students Don’t Like Group Work July 12, 2017
- But Does It Work in the Classroom? July 7, 2017
- Four Things to Do on the First Day of Class July 5, 2017
- How Students Perceive Feedback June 30, 2017
- Contradictions in How We Think about Teaching June 28, 2017
- Teaching Students Specific Skills June 21, 2017
- Does the Strategy Work? A Look at Exam Wrappers June 14, 2017
- Classroom Discussions: How to Apply the Right Amount of Structure June 7, 2017
- Too Much Jargon: A Barrier to Learning? June 2, 2017
- Reading Assignments, Activities, and Approaches to Promote Learning June 1, 2017
- Going Beyond the Spoon-feeding Metaphor May 31, 2017
- Peer Review Strategies that Keep the Focus on Better Teaching May 24, 2017
- Taking Time to Refresh, Recharge, and Recommit May 17, 2017
- Student Rights and the Role of Faculty May 10, 2017
- Questions to Ask When Students Won’t Participate May 9, 2017
- Ten Study Strategies for Students and Their Teachers May 5, 2017
- Point-Based Grading Systems: Benefits and Liabilities May 3, 2017
- Why Students Resist Active Learning May 2, 2017
- Helping Students Discover What They Can Do April 26, 2017
- Building Rapport: Moving Beyond Teacher Characteristics to Actions that Promote Learning April 19, 2017
- Principles for the Professional Growth of Teaching: A Collection of Resources April 18, 2017
- The Three Worst Teaching Mistakes April 18, 2017
- Five Ways to Get Students Thinking about Learning, Not Grades April 12, 2017
- Participation Policy Examples April 6, 2017
- Student-Led Advice on How to Study April 6, 2017
- Understanding Our Strengths and Weaknesses as Teachers April 5, 2017
- Principles that Help Make Online Courses Successful April 4, 2017
- Creating a Climate for Learning: A Survey for Students and Teachers April 3, 2017
- Study Guides and Study Groups April 1, 2017
- What Happens in a Course is a Shared Responsibility March 29, 2017
- Learning Outside Your Comfort Zone March 22, 2017
- A Study-for-an-Exam Assignment March 21, 2017
- Mid-Career Faculty: 5 Great Things About Those Long Years in the Middle March 15, 2017
- Reduce Online Course Anxiety with a Check-in Quiz March 10, 2017
- Five Types of Student Questions and Sample Responses March 9, 2017
- What Can We Learn from End-of-Course Evaluations? March 8, 2017
- Conducting In-Class Reviews Effectively March 5, 2017
- A Handout for Students on Note-taking March 2, 2017
- Waking up to Tired Teaching March 1, 2017
- When the Teacher Becomes the Student February 22, 2017
- Timeless Quotes for Teaching and Learning Inspiration February 15, 2017
- When Others in the Group Seem Smarter Than You February 10, 2017
- More on Evidence-Based Teaching February 8, 2017
- Questions That Promote Student Engagement February 6, 2017
- Do Quizzes Improve Student Learning? A Look at the Evidence February 1, 2017
- The Benefits of Peer Learning January 25, 2017
- Interleaving: An Evidence-Based Study Strategy January 18, 2017
- How Do You Study? A Questionnaire for Students January 12, 2017
- Collaboration or Cheating: What Are the Distinctions? January 11, 2017
- Learning More about Student Participation January 10, 2017
- Compulsory Attendance Policies: An Interesting Finding January 3, 2017
- A Season for Silence December 14, 2016
- A Memo to Students about Studying for Finals December 7, 2016
- Extra Credit Options to Promote Learning December 1, 2016
- Strategies That Increase the Number of Students Who Participate in Class December 1, 2016
- Multi-tasking Compromises Learning: A Sampling of the Evidence December 1, 2016
- What Are We Communicating to Students When We Write? November 30, 2016
- Ugly Consequences of Complaining about ‘Students These Days’ November 16, 2016
- Courses That Are Hard, but Not Too Hard: Finding the Sweet Spot November 9, 2016
- Humor in the Classroom November 2, 2016
- Finding Signs of Progress When Learning is Slow October 26, 2016
- Getting More out of Exam Debriefs October 19, 2016
- Are We Afraid to Let Students Make Mistakes? October 12, 2016
- Why We Teach October 5, 2016
- The Questions We Should Be Asking Our Students September 28, 2016
- What Happens When Students Study Together? September 21, 2016
- A Dose of Reality for First-Year Students and How We Can Help September 14, 2016
- Note-Taking Strategies to Improve Learning September 7, 2016
- Word Choice: What You Call It Matters to Teaching and Learning August 31, 2016
- Is It Time to Rethink Our Exams? August 24, 2016
- A Memo to My Students
Re: College and the Real World August 17, 2016
- Trying Something New? Seven Things that Boost Success Rates August 10, 2016
- Classroom Spaces Where Great and Magical Things Can Happen August 3, 2016
- Six Things Faculty Can Do to Promote Student Engagement June 29, 2016
- What Does Student Engagement Look Like? June 22, 2016
- Benefits of Talking with Students about Mid-Course Evaluations June 15, 2016
- Are We Too Preoccupied with Teaching Techniques? June 8, 2016
- Six Ways to Improve Your Department’s Teaching Climate June 1, 2016
- The Syllabus: Indicator of Instructional Intentions May 25, 2016
- Course Evaluations: How
Can Should We Improve Response Rates? May 18, 2016
- How Teaching is Like Composting May 11, 2016
- Personal Narratives: Perfect for Summer Reading May 4, 2016
- Test Anxiety: Causes and Remedies April 27, 2016
- Active Learning: Surmounting the Challenges in a Large Class April 22, 2016
- What We Learn from Each Other April 20, 2016
- The Last Class Session: How to Make It Count April 13, 2016
- Examining a Teaching Life April 6, 2016
- A Blog Assignment with Results April 1, 2016
- Five Types of Quizzes That Deepen Engagement with Course Content March 30, 2016
- You’re Going to Want to Write This Down March 23, 2016
- It’s Not About Hard or Easy Courses March 16, 2016
- Active Learning: In Need of Deeper Exploration March 9, 2016
- Clear Criteria: A Good Way to Improve Participation March 2, 2016
- Wheelchair Ramps and Extra Time for Learning February 24, 2016
- Weighing the Evidence of New Instructional Policies, Practices, and Behaviors February 17, 2016
- Things I Wish My Department Chair Would Say about Teaching February 10, 2016
- Why Are We So Slow to Change the Way We Teach? February 3, 2016
- Five Ways to Improve Exam Review Sessions January 27, 2016
- Broadening Pedagogical Knowledge by Learning from Other Disciplines January 20, 2016
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Articles for New and Not-So-New Faculty January 13, 2016
- Working to Make a Difference December 16, 2015
- Influencing How Students Discuss Content December 9, 2015
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and Outcomes December 3, 2015
- Evidence of Evidence-Based Teaching December 2, 2015
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better Explanations November 18, 2015
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and Finals November 13, 2015
- Caring About Students Matters November 11, 2015
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests? November 6, 2015
- Step Away from the Lectern November 4, 2015
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in Groups October 29, 2015
- What’s a Good Faith Effort? October 28, 2015
- Thinking about Teaching and Learning October 21, 2015
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement? October 20, 2015
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class? October 14, 2015
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student Involvement October 8, 2015
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) Teachers October 7, 2015
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with Exemplars October 1, 2015
- Nine Ways to Improve Class Discussions September 30, 2015
- Expectations, Underestimations, and Realities September 23, 2015
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test Questions September 22, 2015
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional Strategies September 18, 2015
- Student Ratings—Reminders and Suggestions September 16, 2015
- Exploring the Advantages of Rubrics September 9, 2015
- Four Key Questions About Large Classes September 2, 2015
- Using Grading Policies to Promote Learning August 26, 2015
- An Interesting Group Testing Option August 21, 2015
- How Do You Learn? August 12, 2015
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly? August 5, 2015
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep Learning July 17, 2015
- Getting Students to Do the Reading June 26, 2015
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and Action June 24, 2015
- What Is Teaching without Learning? June 17, 2015
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention? June 10, 2015
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps Lecturing June 3, 2015
- Let Students Summarize the Previous Lesson May 20, 2015
- Developing a Teaching Persona May 13, 2015
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to Highlight May 6, 2015
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that Work April 29, 2015
- Helping Students Who Are Performing Poorly April 24, 2015
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough? April 22, 2015
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds Apart April 15, 2015
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student Learning April 8, 2015
- What We Have and Haven’t Learned April 1, 2015
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom Tango March 25, 2015
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course Content March 18, 2015
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning Conversation March 11, 2015
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the Confusion March 4, 2015
- The Power of Teachers’ Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students’ Questions February 27, 2015
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group Assignments February 26, 2015
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special Challenges February 25, 2015
- Why Students Should Be Taking Notes February 20, 2015
- Office Hours Redux February 18, 2015
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with Students February 17, 2015
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order Thinking February 13, 2015
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic Expectations February 11, 2015
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates? February 4, 2015
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking Skills January 30, 2015
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your Course January 29, 2015
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for Students January 28, 2015
- It’s Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative Finals January 23, 2015
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office Hours January 21, 2015
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept Maps January 20, 2015
- Effective Ways to Structure Discussion January 14, 2015
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and Actions January 13, 2015
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning January 7, 2015
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and Learning December 15, 2014
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment Skills December 10, 2014
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely Reminder December 3, 2014
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your Teaching November 19, 2014
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach Learning November 12, 2014
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of Thinking November 7, 2014
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning? November 5, 2014
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to Flip October 29, 2014
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study Finds October 28, 2014
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting Information October 24, 2014
- The Relationship between Participation and Discussion October 22, 2014
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments? October 15, 2014
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation? October 8, 2014
- When Should We Lecture? October 1, 2014
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team Members September 26, 2014
- Diversifying the Role Course Content Plays September 24, 2014
- Does Discussion Make a Difference? September 19, 2014
- When to Use Whole Class Feedback September 17, 2014
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group Work September 12, 2014
- “She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.” September 10, 2014
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning Moments September 3, 2014
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student Expectations August 20, 2014
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count? August 13, 2014
- Four Key Questions about Grading August 6, 2014
- Feeling Unable to Learn July 30, 2014
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing Assignments July 11, 2014
- Creating a Respectful Classroom Environment July 2, 2014
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook? June 25, 2014
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared Responsibility June 18, 2014
- Playing with Questions June 11, 2014
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!” June 4, 2014
- The Art of Asking Questions May 28, 2014
- Making the Most of Professional Development Days May 21, 2014
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field? May 15, 2014
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy? May 14, 2014
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something New May 7, 2014
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and Students May 1, 2014
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles? April 30, 2014
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other’s Comments April 23, 2014
- What’s an Empowered Student? April 16, 2014
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students? April 10, 2014
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as Learners April 9, 2014
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory April 2, 2014
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy? March 26, 2014
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a Chairlift March 19, 2014
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group Work March 12, 2014
- Learning from Our Teaching Mistakes March 11, 2014
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice Questions March 5, 2014
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student Learning March 4, 2014
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course? February 28, 2014
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice Questions February 26, 2014
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design Considerations February 20, 2014
- The Emotions That Fuel Our Teaching February 19, 2014
- Peer Learning: An Update February 13, 2014
- The Teaching-Learning Synergy February 12, 2014
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to Consider February 7, 2014
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing Article February 5, 2014
- Students and Attention: An Interesting Analysis January 23, 2014
- Seven Characteristics of Good Learners January 22, 2014
- Group Testing-taking Options to Consider January 15, 2014
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve? January 14, 2014
- What Components Make Group Work Successful? January 9, 2014
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on Learning January 8, 2014
- A Quiz Design that Motivates Students December 19, 2013
- Why I Blog December 18, 2013
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and Policies December 11, 2013
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively Aware December 10, 2013
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students? December 4, 2013
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice Questions November 22, 2013
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking Skills November 20, 2013
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for Learning November 13, 2013
- Course Satisfaction for Adult Students November 7, 2013
- Better Questions are the Answer November 6, 2013
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What? October 30, 2013
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for Points October 23, 2013
- New Evidence on Cooperative Learning October 22, 2013
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be Scholarly October 16, 2013
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames? October 11, 2013
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to Students October 9, 2013
- An Intriguing Participation Policy October 2, 2013
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-Face September 25, 2013
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small Stuff September 18, 2013
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses? September 12, 2013
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching Style September 11, 2013
- Fostering the Reciprocity of Learning September 4, 2013
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and Question August 28, 2013
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of Class August 21, 2013
- How We Learn and How We Teach August 14, 2013
- Helping Students Learn to be Professional August 7, 2013
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student Participation August 2, 2013
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are Formed July 31, 2013
- Choosing and Using Textbooks July 24, 2013
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for Students July 10, 2013
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and Learning June 26, 2013
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think? June 25, 2013
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a Tutor June 21, 2013
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the Classroom June 19, 2013
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our Stories June 12, 2013
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive Process June 6, 2013
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers Ask June 5, 2013
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active Learning June 4, 2013
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in Teaching May 29, 2013
- How to Get Better Feedback from Students May 22, 2013
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We Think May 17, 2013
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to Begin May 15, 2013
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning Potential May 10, 2013
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study Groups May 8, 2013
- Assessing Critical Thinking Skills May 3, 2013
- It’s Time to Face What Isn’t Working in Our Courses and Find Out Why May 1, 2013
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the Same April 30, 2013
- Tough Questions on Texting in the Classroom April 24, 2013
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on Teaching April 19, 2013
- Helping Students Discuss Technical Content April 17, 2013
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What’s Being Done April 12, 2013
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the Details April 10, 2013
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved Performance April 9, 2013
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom Learning April 5, 2013
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and Learning April 4, 2013
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their Feedback April 3, 2013
- How to Handle Student Excuses March 28, 2013
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key Factors March 27, 2013
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance? March 26, 2013
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group Work March 20, 2013
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal Attack March 13, 2013
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ Conversation March 12, 2013
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too Flexible March 8, 2013
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus? March 6, 2013
- Test Review Sessions: A Better Design March 5, 2013
- The Effects of Collaborative Testing March 1, 2013
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course Content February 27, 2013
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students Reading February 26, 2013
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen? February 21, 2013
- Improving Teaching One Class at a Time February 20, 2013
- Should You Be Using Rubrics? February 14, 2013
- Student Comments: Moving from Participation to Contribution February 13, 2013
- Defining Teaching Effectiveness February 6, 2013
- Humor in the Classroom: 40 Years of Research February 1, 2013
- Capstone Courses Vary in Terms of Goals, Objectives, Structures and Assignments January 31, 2013
- Helping Students Discover the Value of a Good Set of Notes January 30, 2013
- Six Steps to Making Positive Changes in Your Teaching January 23, 2013
- Online Homework Systems Can Boost Student Achievement January 22, 2013
- The Assessment Movement: Revisiting Faculty Resistance January 18, 2013
- Teacher-Centered, Learner-Centered or All of the Above January 16, 2013
- Students Place a Premium on Faculty Who Show They Care January 11, 2013
- Critical Thinking: Definitions and Assessments January 3, 2013
- Assignments That Promote Critical Thinking December 14, 2012
- When the Semester Ends, It Isn’t Really Over December 10, 2012
- Designing Assignments that Accomplish Course Goals December 5, 2012
- Strategies for Writing Better Teaching Philosophy Statements December 4, 2012
- End-of-Course Evaluations: Making Sense of Student Comments November 28, 2012
- Deep Learning vs. Surface Learning: Getting Students to Understand the Difference November 19, 2012
- Getting Answer-Oriented Students to Focus on the Questions November 14, 2012
- A New Way to Help Students Learn Course Vocabulary November 13, 2012
- Six Paths to More Authentic Teaching November 8, 2012
- Why is it Difficult for Students to Learn the Content in Your Field? November 7, 2012
- Informal Writing Assignments: Promoting Learning Through Writing November 6, 2012
- Should Student Effort Count? November 1, 2012
- Teaching Metacognition to Improve Student Learning October 31, 2012
- Targeted Skill Development: Building Blocks to Better Learning October 22, 2012
- What Types of Students Participate in End-of-Course Ratings? October 19, 2012
- A Couple of Great Strategies to Improve Student Reading October 17, 2012
- Do Students Like Your Communication Style? October 12, 2012
- Peer Assessment is Not an Elixir for All Group Work Challenges October 10, 2012
- 'Grading Motivates Learning' and Other Dead Ideas in Teaching October 4, 2012
- When Teaching Grows Tired: A Wake-up Call for Faculty October 3, 2012
- An Approach that Decreases Failure Rates in Introductory Courses September 28, 2012
- Students Think They Can Multitask. Here’s Proof They Can’t. September 26, 2012
- Cultivating Curiosity in Our Students as a Catalyst for Learning September 19, 2012
- Advice to New Teachers and New Students: Learning is a Quest September 12, 2012
- How Accurately Do Students Track Their Participation? September 4, 2012
- Students and Reading: Round Two August 29, 2012
- What Did We Learn about PowerPoint and Student Learning? August 22, 2012
- Do Attendance Policies Influence Student Learning? August 21, 2012
- An Assignment that Prevents Plagiarism August 16, 2012
- Learning Isn’t Always Painless August 13, 2012
- The Elusive Benefits of Study Groups August 9, 2012
- Five Characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching August 8, 2012
- Does PowerPoint Help or Hinder Learning? August 1, 2012
- 10 Ways to Promote Student Engagement July 26, 2012
- An Exemplar of Pedagogical Scholarship Takes on Student Reading July 25, 2012
- Makeup Exams: Seeking Answers in a Sea of Student Excuses July 24, 2012
- Do Your Students Understand the Material, or Just Memorize and Forget? July 18, 2012
- Using a Capstone Course to Assess Learning July 17, 2012
- A Failure to Communicate July 11, 2012
- Noncontributing Members in Small Groups: An Important Distinction July 10, 2012
- Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the Classroom June 27, 2012
- Four Levels of Student Reflection June 26, 2012
- Five Reasons Getting Students to Talk is Worth the Effort June 20, 2012
- Helping Students Write Better Lab Reports June 19, 2012
- Students as Formative Assessment Partners June 15, 2012
- Faculty Say Grade Inflation is a Problem, but Not in Their Classroom June 13, 2012
- Winning Article of the Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award Takes on “Content Coverage” June 6, 2012
- A Google Jockey Helps Get Students Engaged June 5, 2012
- Shining a Light on Your Assignments May 23, 2012
- Giving Student Choices on How Assignments Are Weighted May 16, 2012
- An Interesting Group Work Model May 11, 2012
- Failure and Learning May 10, 2012
- Enough Time to Make a Difference in Students’ Lives May 9, 2012
- A Graphic Syllabus Can Bring Clarity to Course Structure May 2, 2012
- Word of Mouth Pedagogy: Our Oral Tradition of Sharing Ideas with Colleagues April 27, 2012
- A Faster, More Efficient Way to Grade Papers April 26, 2012
- Teaching with Confidence: Advice for New Faculty April 18, 2012
- Should Effort Count? Students Certainly Think So April 11, 2012
- Cultivating More Autonomous, Motivated Learners April 4, 2012
- Active-Learning Ideas for Large Classes: Simple to Complex April 3, 2012
- Students on Incivility in the Classroom March 29, 2012
- What’s Wrong with Teaching Awards March 28, 2012
- Five Key Principles of Active Learning March 27, 2012
- Thinking Developmentally: Designing Courses with a Progression of Learning Experiences March 21, 2012
- Making Exams More about Learning March 20, 2012
- A Good Conversation about Teaching and Learning March 14, 2012
- Challenging the Notion of Learning Styles March 13, 2012
- Creating an Authentic Learning Environment by Embracing What’s Real March 6, 2012
- Getting Students to Act on Our Feedback March 5, 2012
- Questions about Active Learning February 29, 2012
- A Course Metaphor February 28, 2012
- Two Strategies for Getting Students to Do the Reading February 17, 2012
- Distributing Points and Percentages Across Assignments and Activities February 15, 2012
- Group Work: A Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for All Members February 8, 2012
- Long-Term Benefits of Learner-Centered Instruction February 7, 2012
- Student Self-Assessment: A Sample Assignment February 1, 2012
- A Strategy for Grading Student Writing Assignments January 31, 2012
- Developing Student Self-Assessment Skills January 27, 2012
- An Assessment Technique Using Research Articles January 19, 2012
- The Ideal Professor vs. The Typical Professor January 16, 2012
- How Students Learn: Thoughts from a Favorite Author January 11, 2012
- Think Alouds Shed Light on How Students Grapple with Content January 6, 2012
- End of Semester Reflections: Beginnings, Endings and Spaces Between December 7, 2011
- Teaching Critical Thinking: Are We Clear? November 30, 2011
- Humor in the Classroom: Reviewing the Research November 18, 2011
- Getting Students to Ask for Help November 11, 2011
- Making Time for Reflection November 4, 2011
- Listen to the Message as You Talk about Your Students October 24, 2011
- Grading Practices: Liabilities of the Points System October 19, 2011
- The Role of Feedback on Skill Development October 14, 2011
- Student Perceptions of Textbooks and the Features that Influence Reading October 7, 2011
- The Question of Control in the College Classroom September 28, 2011
- Student Engagement Tip: Give Each Lesson its Own Theme Song September 23, 2011
- Practical Ideas for Improving Student Participation September 21, 2011
- Lessons Learned from Reflecting on Our Teaching Experiences September 15, 2011
- Student Learning in Progress: Deciding When and How to Intervene September 8, 2011
- An Innovative Way of Analyzing Critical Thinking Skills September 6, 2011
- Giving Feedback on Student Writing: An Innovative Approach August 31, 2011
- Eight Lessons about Student Learning and What They Mean for You August 30, 2011
- Student Entitlement: Six Ways to Respond August 26, 2011
- What Does Your Syllabus Say About You and Your Course? August 24, 2011
- Promoting Academic Integrity August 18, 2011
- Collaborative Teaching: Reflections and Lessons Learned August 16, 2011
- So What Did We Learn about Extra Credit? August 11, 2011
- Participation Policies and Student Motivation August 4, 2011
- Teaching with Style: A Unique Integration of the Personal and the Professional July 28, 2011
- Revisiting Extra Credit Policies July 20, 2011
- A Learner-Centered Approach Affects Student Motivation July 15, 2011
- Study Game Plans: Do Students Know What and How to Study? July 14, 2011
- How Much Should Class Participation Count toward the Final Grade? July 7, 2011
- Building a Bridge Between Research and Practice June 30, 2011
- A Role for Student Choice in Assessment? June 21, 2011
- The Softer Side of Teaching June 16, 2011
- Group Work: Are Student-Selected Groups More Effective? June 10, 2011
- Two Lessons Learned at The Teaching Professor Conference June 9, 2011
- Changing the Way We Teach: Making the Case for Learner-Centered Teaching June 1, 2011
- Lessons Learned When Classes Don’t Go As Planned May 27, 2011
- Deep and Surface Learning: Revisiting What Educational Research Tells Us May 26, 2011
- Student Rating Forms and Definitions of Good Teaching May 19, 2011
- Learning Skills: Necessary but not Taught May 12, 2011
- I Won’t Mess with Your Course if You Don’t Mess with Mine April 19, 2011
- Four Characteristics of Successful Teachers March 29, 2011
- 10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions February 15, 2011
- Remedial Coursework: Predicting Student Success February 4, 2011
- Helping Students Develop Problem-Solving Skills via Online Discussions January 28, 2011
- Assessing and Developing Metacognitive Skills January 21, 2011
- Helping Students See Correlation Between Effort and Performance December 20, 2010
- End-of-Course Ratings: Lessons from Faculty Who Improved December 3, 2010
- Teacher Anger: What to do When You’re Reaching the Breaking Point November 23, 2010
- Teaching Undergraduate Research: A Unique Model November 19, 2010
- Peer-Led Team Learning Model Yields Impressive Results November 16, 2010
- When Faculty and Student Expectations Collide November 9, 2010
- Lifelong Learning: Discovering and Developing Your Teaching Skills November 5, 2010
- Alternative Grading Methods for the College Classroom November 2, 2010
- Developing Students’ Self-Directed Learning Skills October 26, 2010
- When Mentoring New Faculty, Don’t Ignore These Issues October 15, 2010
- Do More Tests Lead to More Learning? October 14, 2010
- RateMyProfessors: Is There a Lesson to be Learned? October 13, 2010
- The Benefits of a Course Blog October 8, 2010
- Building Rapport with Your Students October 5, 2010
- To Improve Students’ Problem Solving Skills Add Group Work to the Equation August 31, 2010
- Encouraging Substantive Discussion of Course Content by Getting Personal August 26, 2010
- Preparing Teaching Philosophy Statements August 20, 2010
- Guidelines for Effective Classroom Observations August 13, 2010
- What it Means to be a Self-Regulated Learner July 30, 2010
- Student Learning: Six Causes of Resistance July 20, 2010
- Student Performance and Satisfaction: Online vs. Face to Face July 15, 2010
- Learning from Experience July 9, 2010
- Tips for Improving Student Thinking and Learning July 2, 2010
- Group Work: Should Your Top Students Work Together? July 1, 2010
- Good Job! The Importance of Writing More Meaningful Comments on Student Papers June 24, 2010
- Learning Communities: Benefits Across the Board? June 22, 2010
- Self-Assessment Does Not Necessarily Mean Self-Grading June 18, 2010
- Student Internships: An Effective Assessment Model June 3, 2010
- Mid-Career Faculty: Staying Challenged and Enthused May 18, 2010
- Is There a Place for Reading Lists in Today’s Curriculum? May 14, 2010
- Why Students Cram for Exams May 6, 2010
- Three More Tips for Facilitating Classroom Discussions April 20, 2010
- Do You Talk Too Much? Tips for Facilitating Classroom Discussions April 19, 2010
- Learning Goals: Faculty and Students Don’t Agree April 16, 2010
- Six Keys to More Effective Class Discussions April 6, 2010
- Learning from Experience: How Teaching is Like Golf April 2, 2010
- Metaphor for Teaching: The Teacher as Midwife April 1, 2010
- What Students Expect from Instructors, Other Students March 23, 2010
- Six Principles of a Successful Course Redesign March 17, 2010
- Do Faculty Give up on Students? March 11, 2010
- Guiding Student Reflection March 2, 2010
- Researchers Recommend Providing Students with Partial Notes February 4, 2010
- Conditions Associated with Classroom Conflict January 29, 2010
- Moving Past the Old 'Teaching vs. Research' Debate January 19, 2010
- Are Senior Faculty Members Still Effective Teachers? January 15, 2010
- Making Peer Assessment Work for You January 5, 2010
- What to Look for in Teaching Philosophy Statements December 29, 2009
- Different Sources of Power that Affect the Teacher-Student Relationship December 22, 2009
- Why It Can Be Hard to Get to Know Your Students December 18, 2009
- Tips for Building a Personal Learning Network on Campus and Online December 16, 2009
- Helping Students Fill Gaps in Basic Knowledge December 15, 2009
- Critical Pedagogy Brings New Teaching and Learning Challenges December 8, 2009
- A New Look at Student Attention Spans December 4, 2009
- Reflecting on Your Teaching Practices November 24, 2009
- Why Are You Taking This Course? November 19, 2009
- Problem-Based Learning: Benefits and Risks November 12, 2009
- Chronic Course Shoppers: What is the Impact of Dropping and Adding Courses? October 29, 2009
- A Novel Approach to Encouraging Class Participation October 23, 2009
- Benefits of a Student Self-Grading Model October 6, 2009
- Understanding What You See Happening in Class October 2, 2009
- A Smart Way to Handle Student Excuses October 1, 2009
- Student Recommendations for Encouraging Participation September 25, 2009
- Stop Me If You've Heard This One: The Benefits of Humor in the Classroom September 24, 2009
- Do You Don a ‘Teaching Mask’ as You Head to the Classroom? September 17, 2009
- Assumptions about Setting the Right Classroom Climate September 2, 2009
- Reading Assignment Strategies that Encourage Deep Learning September 1, 2009
- Using the Syllabus to Create an Engaging Classroom Climate August 24, 2009
- Group Work Tip: Make Leaders Accountable for Group Performance August 21, 2009
- Tenure-track Positions Continue to Feel the Pinch August 20, 2009
- Why Students Don’t Ask for Help, and What You Can Do About It August 13, 2009
- Problem-solving Exercises that Promote Intellectual Development July 21, 2009
- Effective Teaching Strategies: Six Keys to Classroom Excellence July 20, 2009
- Mentoring Undergraduates in Research and Scholarship July 16, 2009
- Reflective Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Autonomy July 2, 2009
- Students Agree Cell Phones in Class Are Distracting June 16, 2009
- Retirement Reflections: Things I Will and Won’t Miss After 33 Years of Teaching June 1, 2009
- Those Students Who Participate Too Much May 8, 2009
- Why Students Procrastinate and What You Can Do About It May 7, 2009
- Does It Really Matter Where Students Sit? April 30, 2009
- Dealing with High-Maintenance Students April 28, 2009
- Strategies for Teaching Large Classes April 24, 2009
- Are You Encouraging Plagiarism? Six Tips for Improving Your Term-Paper Assignments April 20, 2009
- Classroom Teaching Methods: Are Your Lectures Sidetracking Student Learning April 14, 2009
- Creating More Effective Course Handouts April 9, 2009
- Objections to Active Learning April 2, 2009
- Understanding Learning Styles Research and Instruments March 31, 2009
- Why Do Students Take Your Course? March 19, 2009
- Large Courses and Student Expectations February 24, 2009
- False Assumptions Beginning Teachers Make January 20, 2009
- Effective Teaching Strategies: The Importance of Marrying Content and Process December 16, 2008
- Student Learning and Course Content: How Fast Do They Forget? December 11, 2008
- Helping First-semester Students Learn from Mistakes December 4, 2008
- Teaching Strategies: Frequent Exams = Better Results for Students December 3, 2008
- Mid-Career Faculty Issues Often Overlooked November 20, 2008
- Answers for Those Afraid to Take a Hit on College Student Ratings November 13, 2008
- Teaching Strategies for Transformative Learning October 20, 2008
- Should Instructors Provide Students with Complete Notes? October 7, 2008
- Effective Teaching: Six Keys to Success October 6, 2008
- Instructional Design: Six Strategies to Make Courses More Learner Centered Without Sacrificing Content September 27, 2008
- Teaching and Learning Scholarship: An Innovative Example September 25, 2008
- Understanding Conflicts with Students September 5, 2008
- Project Introduces Students to Helpful Resources September 4, 2008
- Using the Syllabus to Lay Down the Law September 1, 2008
- Students’ Conceptions of Teaching and Learning August 24, 2008
- Transformational Teaching and Learning August 22, 2008
- Changes in the Academic Profession August 16, 2008
- A Viable Literature for College Teaching and Learning August 14, 2008
- Four Teaching Maxims That Endure August 3, 2008
- Is There a Connection Between Learning Styles and Preferences? August 2, 2008
- An Update on Learning Styles/Cognitive Styles Research August 1, 2008
- Effective Classroom Management: A Helpful Handout for Students July 14, 2008
- Instructional Design: Moving Toward a Less Structure, More Learning-Centered Environment July 11, 2008
- Improving Lectures July 9, 2008
- Educational Assessment Options and Opportunities July 6, 2008
- Tell Students When They’re Wrong July 3, 2008
- Approaches to Teacher Growth and Development June 17, 2008
- Are You as Good a Teacher as You Think? June 9, 2008
- Feedback Forms for Peer Assessment in Groups June 1, 2008
