Seven Big Lessons from a Retiring Professor
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 19, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. It is time to bid farewell to a career I have loved for so…
Inspiring Cultural Awareness and Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
The capacity of instructors to inspire cultural awareness and cultural intelligence (CQ) in the classroom provides instructor effectiveness and engages students in the diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) narrative.…
Taking Ownership of Your Professional Learning with Twitter
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many of us were scrambling to figure out how to keep learning going. At the time, I was an associate professor in an undergraduate teacher…
From Barely There to Fully Present: Three Ways to Improve Your Instructor Presence
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 12, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. I recently received a frantic phone call from a distraught colleague who had just received…
Decision Making for Equity: Applying the VIBE Framework for More Equitable Outcomes
Have you ever made a professional decision and later realized it had negative unintended consequences for others on campus, be it your students or colleagues? Have you ever observed a…
Everything Old is New Again: Rethinking the Socratic Method for the 21st Century
My professional career centers around helping educators create engaging learning environments for their students. Often, that entails uncovering how best to use the available educational technologies. Over the course of…
Inviting Students In: The Art of Hospitality in Online Classrooms
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 19, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. As instructors, we learn a lot about our students by their physical presence in…
Ten Online Course Structural Components to Support Learning
Online courses can be examined from two perspectives—what students do in the course and how a professor structures the course. There are a variety of instructional strategies and learning activities…
Taking Collaboration Seriously
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 17, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Like many professors, I use group projects in my classes. When my students work…
Aspiring to Create Learning Experiences Students Remember
Some of us can easily recall a specific class from years ago that left an indelible impression. Then, there are entire courses we barely remember. Everything we learn comes from…