Fair and Equal
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.” This quote, attributed to Thomas Jefferson, is often used in gifted education to justify the attention, resources, and…
Fostering Fun: Engaging Students with Asynchronous Online Learning
This article is featured in the resource guide, Effective Online Teaching Strategies. Today, faculty are being asked to abruptly expand their teaching practices in ways many of us would never…
Engagement to Autonomy: Four Strategies for Face-to-Face or Online Learning in First-Year Experience Courses
Although teaching first-time freshmen across all content areas presents challenges, first-year experience (FYE) courses also have unique obstacles which must be overcome, especially with the shift to online learning. Often,…
Teaching Philosophies: Your Teaching Soul in Document Form
Recently, I was asked to work with faculty on, among other things, writing teaching philosophies. During preparation for the workshop, I reviewed my own teaching philosophy which hadn’t been updated…
Engaging a Village: Effective Strategies to Reach Every Corner of the Lecture Hall
As educators, we often struggle to provide an effective learning environment for the students who are easily distracted and clamoring for more support. Technology in the classroom has the potential…
Teaching with Unknowns: Finding Meaning in Your Online Course Delivery
This article is featured in the resource guide, Effective Online Teaching Strategies. While there is no shortage of data about COVID-19, finding meaning within that data has been another matter…
Performance-Based Learning: How it Works
Should you give your students another assessment or worksheet from the textbook? Why aren’t your students engaged in your classroom? Traditional instruction may not be enough for our 21st century…
How Students Re-Imagined the Teach-Learning Environment and Visualized a Virtual Event
For the past three years, I have taught a social entrepreneurship course with a semester-long project called Climb Above Addiction. This social venture supports prevention and recovery from drug addiction…
Using Announcements to Give Narrative Shape to your Online Course
Instructors, and instructional designers, spend a lot of time thinking about the flow of a classroom and how to create an intuitive sensibility that paves the progression a student might…
You Belong Here: Making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion a Mission in the Classroom
This free report provides perspective on how faculty and universities can make diversity, equity, and inclusion a mission on campus and in the classroom. Although these conversations may be uncomfortable.…