The Best Teaching Advice I Have Received
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on December 16, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. What makes some teachers more effective than others? Throughout my teaching career,…
Supporting Struggling Students Through Collaborative Problem Solving
Every semester faculty are faced with students who struggle with completing assignments, understanding the content, or just find it difficult to participate in class activities and discussions. For many, these…
Number Talks as a Pedagogical Tool for Pre-service Teachers
Pre-service teachers enter their education courses with their personal experiences as the basis for what their future classrooms might look like (Brown et al., 2021). For many, teaching and learning…
Five Reasons to Stop Giving Exams in Class
It is a common, but not universal practice to administer exams to students in class (e.g., Rovai, 2000). Traditionally, students come to class and take exams silently and independently without…
Three Recommendations to Increase Equitable Learning Environments
“What are your thoughts and feelings about teaching students in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities?” In the spring of 2021, we, as an interdisciplinary team of faculty (elementary…
Reclaiming the Joy of Teaching
Many faculty aspired to a career in education because teaching, learning, and connecting with students brought joy. Yes, we recognized the work involved would be demanding. But we also got…
Connecting Before We Can Physically Connect: Online Icebreakers to Use for the First Day of Class
I would venture to say that many of us have faced the situation where we are either teaching our classes in a hybrid format, or our first few weeks of…
15 Ways to Engage Your Students In-person, Online, and in Zoom
In January 2022, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) resumed its classes in their regularly scheduled formats including in-person, hybrid, and online. However, we were encouraged to continue practicing flexibility in our…
Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators
Imagine the possibilities if students learn not only how to use open educational resources (OER), but also how to curate and design OER in their college courses. This action of…
The Clock Strikes at Midnight: An Argument Against the “Pumpkin Rule”
The pandemic has had educators across the globe revisiting why they do what they do. We were all urged to be flexible for students, and so during this time I…