A discussion with faculty at South Dakota State University got me thinking about questions and how often we forget the power of a good question to stimulate discussion. When discussion plods along without much insight or inspiration, we are quick to blame students and they are not blameless. Some days (in some classes, most days) [...]

I’m back on the road this week and happy to be heading out. I’ve been home for the past three months and am ready to be back working with faculty. I often describe them as the students we all love to teach—bright, curious, intrinsically motivated, and always willing to participate.
I especially appreciate the spirit of [...]

In the upcoming March issue of the Teaching Professor you’ll find highlights from two really excellent articles on teaching philosophy statements. I’ve been sort of down on these statements for a while now. When they are written to accompany job applications or to be included in tenure and promotion dossiers, or as part of a [...]

In several of my books, I’ve referenced a wonderful classroom assessment query I came across in Teaching of Psychology, some years ago now. At the end of the course, the authors asked students to reflect back across the whole semester and then report the first 10 things they remembered about the course. Students were told [...]

I read two articles last week in which faculty described teaching experiences that did not go quite as well as expected. In one case a math professor opted to teach an entry-level remedial math course. He knew the teaching would be challenging, but with 25 years of previous teaching experience and a newly minted Ph.D. [...]

Do you use online quizzes? Have you thought about using them but are worried about academic integrity issues. Students do take the quizzes out of class and on their own time. Given rampant cheating in college courses already, why put students in such a tempting situation?
Use of online quizzes is growing, and various mechanisms in [...]