April 27, 2020 Eric J. Moore, PhD
As the clock seems to race through the final minutes of an exam, several students frantically scan questions and fill in bubbles to demonstrate their knowledge and content mastery…
In Effective Classroom Management, Online Education
March 4, 2020 Caran Howard, PhD
Accessibility is a big deal. We include statements about accessibility in our syllabi and on our institutional websites. We also need to ensure that we comply with the Rehabilitation…
January 20, 2020 Gwen Bass, PhD, and Michael Lawrence-Riddell
Creating educational experiences for our students that integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a philosophy of education that centers students’ cultural backgrounds as essential…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
January 13, 2020 Gwen Bass, PhD, and Michael Lawrence-Riddell
Put simply, “people learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone” (Mayer, 2005). Multimedia theory posits the idea that people’s brains more effectively integrate new information…
Increasingly, instructors at the college level are called upon to create classroom learning experiences that can be characterized using terms like academically rigorous, accessible, differentiated, trauma-sensitive, inclusive, culturally relevant,…
In Effective Classroom Management
November 4, 2019 Sara Schley, EdD
The teaching process not only involves content knowledge, but also an understanding of teaching and learning principles with insights about different learning needs (note: not the same thing as…
In Effective Classroom Management
October 7, 2019 Patty Kohler-Evans, EdD
Recently, a student came into my office to vent because she was frustrated and dismayed at the behavior of another student in one of her classes. She indicated that…
