Most of us think we know what active learning is. The word engagement quickly comes to mind. Or, we describe what it isn’t: passive learning.
Overview of mindfulness in the classroom Many educators at the tertiary level have recently been incorporating mindfulness techniques into their practice to create a non-threatening
University-level instructors need strategies to assist with engaging students intellectually in the critical work of centering classroom thinking and scholarship on equity and social justice.
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on June 3, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. I give students in my literature courses a lot
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).
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.”
In a recent New York Times opinion essay, University of Virginia senior Emma Camp asserts that she “came to college eager for debate . .
How are you, as professors, addressing the ongoing mental health crisis that’s been driven in part by the pandemic? First off, the crisis in college
Drawing in college? It’s not quite that simple. Student engagement with course content is paramount to their understanding of course topics (Boekaerts, 2016). However, inspiring
Pre-service teachers enter their education courses with their personal experiences as the basis for what their future classrooms might look like (Brown et al., 2021).
It all started with a survey…A recent study of preservice teachers at our university conducted by a teacher candidate for her senior research showed interesting
