Five Keys to Motivating Students
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
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
July 1, 2024
Effective Teaching Strategies
Assignment Prompts: A Tutor’s Perspective
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
Brett Murphy Hunt
June 14, 2024
Bringing Authentic Humor into the Classroom
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on July 22, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Humor has a place in education. College teachers can
Daniel C. Allen
May 31, 2024
Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 5, 2017 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re
Stephanie Delaney, PhD
May 24, 2024
The Five Whys: Helping Students Engage in Deeper Learning
During his time at the Toyota Motor Company, Taiichi Ohno developed a tool for root cause analysis, the technique we know as the five whys.
Sarah Forbes
May 20, 2024
The NPR Model of Teaching through Storytelling
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 1, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Nearly all dedicated NPR listeners have had the
John Orlando, PhD
May 17, 2024
Should We Teach Students Formulas for Writing?
As writing instructors, we often see students with rigid ideas about what writing is “supposed” to look like: Topic sentence here. Quote Sandwich there. Five-paragraph format to tie
Todd Walker and Jennifer Trainor
May 13, 2024
Is the Sandwich Method Getting Stale? Fresh Approaches to Providing Effective Student Feedback
The “Sandwich Method”—a layer of praise, one of critique, followed by a final layer of praise. This method has been a staple in college classrooms
Melinda McGuire
April 24, 2024
A Call to Educators for Stress Management and Self-Care
Dear Fellow Educators, As we near the end of another semester, I sense a rise in activity and busyness across campus. The stress is starting
Dunja Trunk, PhD
April 12, 2024
Elevating High Impact Teaching Through Continuous Improvement
High impact practices (HIPs) have been in higher education for nearly two decades and include practices that are effective for a wide range of students,
Maria B. Peterson-Ahmad, PhD, Toni Franklin, PhD, and Angelica Addo, MEd
March 29, 2024
