Teaching Without a Self
Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students
Brett Whysel
June 30, 2025
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connecting with students
Using Courage, Compassion, and Connection to Combat Disconnection
In the fall of 2018 in the United States, there were roughly 19,600,000 students enrolled in distance education courses (National Center for Education Statistics, 2022).
Amy Winger, MEd
April 1, 2022
Engaging Students at a Deeper Level
In his personal writings, Marcus Aurelius wrote, “People who labor all their lives but have no purpose are wasting their time—even when hard at work.”
Noura Badawi, EdD
March 30, 2022
Six Ways To Fall in Love with Teaching Again
There’s that wonderful moment upon stepping into your first classroom ready for all its delights, discoveries, and even disputes when you think to yourself that
Noura Badawi, EdD, Edna Murugan, PhD, and Sen Padilla, DrPH
September 8, 2021
Teaching HyFlex: It’s a Genre Problem
I came home from my second day of teaching my “HyFlex” class (some students in the classroom and others on Zoom) utterly discouraged. Despite my
Maria Bergstrom, PhD
November 25, 2020
Building Relationships: How to Connect from a Distance
“Keep teaching and learning.” This was and is still the motto of the pandemic. Unlike spring 2020 when we shifted to remote teaching after students
Crystal O. Wong, EdD
October 14, 2020
A Checklist for Building Community in the College Classroom
Instructors have temporary experiences with groups of students each semester. Even so, these brief moments have the power to change lives. As professors, we decide
Julie Sochacki, JD
March 23, 2020
Vulnerability in the Classroom
Years ago, when I began my full-time teaching career in the university classroom, I was a mere 27 years old and fresh out of a
LynnAnne Lowrie, PhD
October 21, 2019
