This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 4, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. “What you appreciate appreciates” (Twist, n.d.). One of the practices I have…
I don’t know any of my students. For 20 years, in our experience learning and teaching online, we knew no one. Like a chapter out of Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible…
Often students are unaware that education is a journey from the external to the internal: From information to knowledge and from knowledge to realization. As educators, we naturally study educational…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on April 8, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Students often put in a great deal of time and energy into…
Some of the most satisfying moments in teaching are when your students are engaged, when they are deeply absorbed in the material and they are contributing thoughtfully; however, this type…
March 2020 was a whirlwind. When COVID-19 was first discussed in the news, many of us had no idea what the impact would be. Some of us assumed we would…
As we head into another semester run by the little pandemic that could, some of us are heading back into classrooms, others are teaching from home, and the rest of…
A statement of intellectual development is a required part of tenure dossiers at most colleges and universities (Boyce & Aguilera, 2021; Vega & Hengartner, 2021). It’s the most important part…
The importance of leadership knowledge and skills in one’s professional and personal life cannot be overstated. Development of leadership capabilities can have a positive impact on a student’s personal and…
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