Effective Teaching Strategies

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Making Mental Health More Visible in Your Course

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

Norman Eng, EdD March 7, 2022

Drawing in College: Using Sketchnoting to Support Student Engagement

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

Melissa Parks, PhD March 2, 2022

Number Talks as a Pedagogical Tool for Pre-service Teachers

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).

Amy Smith, PhD February 21, 2022

Becoming Critical Readers of Nonfiction: Preservice Teachers Explore Orbis Pictus Texts

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

Mary Ellen Oslick, PhD February 2, 2022

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From Team Charters to Reflections: Six Steps for a Successful Group Project

I teach a business writing course, and I used to dread assigning group projects. While I valued the lessons teamwork provided, those takeaways were often

Elizabeth Dunham, MLS January 17, 2022