Regroup and Refocus: Strategies to Avoid Professor Burn Out
It’s already the end of the semester! The shiny back-to-school dust has settled and we have all been rotating through our new COVID-complicated school routines. Most of the students and…
♫12 Days of Professional Development Opportunities♫
For most of us, the fall 2020 semester required a major shift in how we do our job as faculty members. We had to come up with new ways to…
Effective Online Strategies to Improve Your Online Teaching
Online teaching. Online learning. Online engagement. You’ve heard it all when it comes to online pedagogy. But have you come across a resource that contains all the online pedagogy techniques…
Part Five of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Grading and Further Reading
Before discussing grading, let me return to assignments and a key point. My students are frequently uncertain about how to write an introduction and a conclusion in a written assignment. …
Online Mentorship: A Worthwhile Investment
Mentorship can take various forms and serve numerous goals, however, McKinsey (2016) summarized the many definitions succinctly by stating that to mentor “is to provide wise advice and instruction (p.…
For Those Who Need it Most: Using Active Inclusivity to Increase Office Hour Attendance and Extracurricular Activities
Student-faculty interaction outside of the classroom can improve student learning and retention (Lundberg and Schreiner, 2004; Griffin et al., 2014), and in most colleges and universities office hours are required.…
Part Four of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Guest Speakers and Tutorials
Hosting a guest speaker virtually or in the classroom is potentially a highlight of the semester, but more often than not it is a letdown. The pitfalls are many, and…
New Role for Academics: Guardians of Lives
During a recent physical, my doctor informed me that my blood pressure was off the charts. She asked if I was experiencing stress. I thought, "What academic—who cares about the…
Building Self-Efficacy: How to Feel Confident in Your Online Teaching
Now that we are into the realities of teaching in a COVID-world, I keep hearing similar sentiments from my colleagues, something to the effect of, “It’s going fine, but I…
Part Three of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Assignments
I would like to begin with one of the age-old dilemmas facing instructors. We all probably concur that teamwork is a key skill needed in our professional and personal lives,…