Disheartened by a lack of enthusiasm from her students, an experienced faculty member stopped by our Center for Teaching and Learning last semester seeking support on how to elicit a…
Working remotely is commonplace for many universities in today’s higher education environment. Working from home provides faculty and staff with flexibility; however, remote workers can also have feelings of isolation…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 5, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. First impressions are important and you can make favorable ones on the first day…
Introduction Interdisciplinarity is a “knowledge view and curriculum approach that consciously applies methodology and language from more than one discipline to examine a central theme, issue, problem, topic, or experience”…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 17, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Over the years, course syllabi have evolved from a simple document that outlines course…
When I was a principal, I regularly participated in collaborative reviews of student work meetings. These meetings had three specific purposes: (1) reflection on instructional root causes of student performance,…
“Does anyone have a growth mindset moment to share?” I asked this question at the start of most of my first-year seminar courses last fall. The project was a small…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on August 19, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Around an image of Yoda’s face, block letters urge, “Read the syllabus you must.”…
In this educational assessment guide, we'll answer questions such as: What is the purpose of educational assessment?What are the benefits of assessments?What are the main types of assessment?What is the…
For decades, students have used highlighters to color-code notes and to indicate key passages of research sources, but there is another, less common but equally important, use for highlighters in…