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.
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students.
Recently, my family and I visited New Orleans where we enjoyed walking through its historical and distinct districts. We found ourselves in one area that was lined with antique shops on both sides of the street and that stretched for a few blocks.
If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. Unless you inherited your courses from someone else, you’ve developed lists of them. You’ve probably had to submit these lists to the administration to be reviewed and possibly revised.
To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. My objective was to become more skilled in facilitating learning in the area of providing care for a variety of populations; in this case, those with psychiatric symptoms.
A new academic year is about to begin, and, well, there’s this course-maybe more than one-that you’re not exactly bristling with excitement to reach. What should you do?
When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. It’s proved itself
The Pecha Kucha presentation style is gaining interest in education. It has many beneficial aspects for students and educators alike. What is a Pecha Kucha
Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to
Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to
