Effective Teaching Strategies

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Social Justice Movements to Health Policy: Lessons from a Pilot Cross-Course Collaborative Project

During the spring 2024 semester, we redesigned our courses to pilot a cross-course group project involving a social sciences (SSC) course titled, “Social Justice Movements in the U.S.” (taken primarily by first and second year students as an elective) and a health sciences (HSC) course titled, “Capstone” (taken by fourth year students as a program requirement).

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

It started with a yawn. I saw it contagiously meander through the classroom. I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons!

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The Daily Quiz

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on October 22, 2018 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The

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Community in the Classroom

Personal connections lead to success. As educators, it is our responsibility to make space in our classrooms for all students to feel welcomed and encouraged

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Making Memories on the First Day of Class

With classes about to begin for a new semester at colleges and universities across the world, instructors and students are preparing for the common experience of the first day of class.

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