New Role for Academics: Guardians of Lives
During a recent physical, my doctor informed me that my blood pressure was off the charts. She asked if I was experiencing stress. I thought,
Mary Hoeft
December 4, 2020
Articles
Building Self-Efficacy: How to Feel Confident in Your Online Teaching
Now that we are into the realities of teaching in a COVID-world, I keep hearing similar sentiments from my colleagues, something to the effect of,
Jill Lassiter, EdD
December 2, 2020
Part Three of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Assignments
I would like to begin with one of the age-old dilemmas facing instructors. We all probably concur that teamwork is a key skill needed in
Justin Robertson, PhD
November 30, 2020
Helping Online Students Succeed
*Editor’s Note: This is an article from The Teaching Professor. If you are interested in similar articles, check out The Teaching Professor membership.** When students do poorly on
John Orlando, PhD
November 27, 2020
Teaching HyFlex: It’s a Genre Problem
I came home from my second day of teaching my “HyFlex” class (some students in the classroom and others on Zoom) utterly discouraged. Despite my
Maria Bergstrom, PhD
November 25, 2020
Part Two of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Classroom Activities Throughout the Semester
One-minute papers have deservedly become one of the more common classroom activities deployed by teachers. This is consistent with Lang’s (2016a) perspective that “frequent low-stakes
Justin Robertson, PhD
November 23, 2020
An Anti-Racist Form of Assessment: The C.A.P Model: Creative. Academic. Practical.
Some profess that teaching is both an art and a science (Berliner, 1986, as cited in Marzano, 2007; Weisman, 2012). Well-honed pedagogies developed through deliberate
Kerry-Ann Escayg, PhD
November 20, 2020
Five Easy Ideas that Build Bridges to Your Online Learners
As an online instructor with many students, it is challenging to remember details about every learner who has passed through my virtual classroom. But there
Antone M. Goyak, EdD
November 18, 2020
Part One of Practical Mid-Career Teaching Reflections: Early Week Classroom Activities
With PhD in hand, I joined the academy without any real teaching training. As I sought to establish my teaching routine and define my teaching
Justin Robertson, PhD
November 16, 2020
Now More Than Ever: Why Collaborative Grading Works, Even Online
Over the previous decade, researchers have made the case that engaging students in metacognition improves learning outcomes for students across fields (Zhao et al, 2014;
Christian Aguiar, Andrew M. Howard, and Ahmad Wright
November 13, 2020
