How Building Rapport Helped My Students Take Risks
One of my quietest students once came up to me after class and said, “I’ve never felt comfortable speaking in English before this course.” That
Fahad Ameen
November 10, 2025
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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy
This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with
Toni Gist
May 16, 2025
Mid-Semester Course Corrections: Using the MSF Model to Engage Students and Improve Courses
In general, educators recognize the value of student feedback: it can help us better understand the classroom experience, modify learning activities, or adjust our policies
Peter Ufland and Christian Aguiar
April 7, 2025
From Feedback to Feedforward: Using AI-Powered Assessment Flywheel to Drive Student Competency
A defining quality of student-centred teaching is effective assessments. In recent years, the discourse around effective assessment has steered towards incorporating the “assessment for learning”
Khameel Mustapha, PhD
March 24, 2025
Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey
When students’ evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys
Adele Leon, PhD
March 14, 2025
Is the Sandwich Method Getting Stale? Fresh Approaches to Providing Effective Student Feedback
The “Sandwich Method”—a layer of praise, one of critique, followed by a final layer of praise. This method has been a staple in college classrooms
Melinda McGuire
April 24, 2024
Teaching Students to Use Feedback: A Step Toward Deeper Learning
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 11, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. How many of us teachers have had this experience?
Maika J. Yeigh, EdD
May 6, 2022
A Different Way to Provide Feedback of Student Learning
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 15, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. In August 2017, Inside Higher Ed featured an article describing a controversial “stress
Deborah Bracke, PhD
April 29, 2022
Teaching and Learning Without Grading
Imagine if faculty did not design courses, select course materials, or grade student work. What role would faculty play in teaching and learning? We serve
Erinn Nicley, PhD, and Barry Sharpe, PhD,
November 8, 2021
Tips from the Pros: Improve Student Learning with Peer Feedback
*This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on August 1, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. As instructors, we often assume that students
John Orlando, PhD
October 15, 2021
