The Teaching Professor
Every year I teach a compulsory first-year course on the basics of psychology, which includes an introduction to developmental psychology. Lately I have also been teaching a follow-up elective course ...
Most online instructors fall back on tried-and-true writing assignments and the LMS discussion forum to ...
When our teaching focuses entirely on learning outcomes, we can become narrowly focused on seeing ...
Faculty tend to lament that student evaluations are just opportunities for students with bad grades ...
We’re interested in assignments. To us, they seem like a vital aspect of instruction that ...
One of the luxuries of this online format that we didn’t have when The Teaching ...
Fresh from winter break, my students want to test my boundaries—and they should. But even ...
The rise of home-based care created a need for students enrolled in the online RN ...
Concern about how students study is widespread. Considerable research has shown that students don’t make ...
The first time I taught fully online, I assumed that, apart from the attendance policy, ...
They Hate
When I meet with faculty, I often talk about the importance of moving our conversations ...
Late last summer we set the goal to liven up our discussion boards. We wanted ...
When students consider majoring in the humanities or social sciences, it’s only a matter of ...
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There’s no discounting the importance of the first day of class. What happens that day ...
To: My Students From: Your Teacher Re: College and the Real World I just read about a senior ...
As new courses begin, there’s another batch of students and lots of new names to learn. A few among us manage to learn names with, what appears to rest of ...
Most online instructors fall back on tried-and-true writing assignments and the LMS discussion forum to facilitate student engagement with material. But papers do not provide the opportunity for students to ...
"We need to ask whether we are providing concrete examples of what we are asking of them or merely expecting that somewhere along the line students magically see it, recognize it, and emulate it—even though we only hint at it."
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