The Teaching Professor
As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks ...
Long ago I learned that the best way to tour a city is by bike. ...
A few months after I received my university’s undergraduate teaching award in 2009, my classroom ...
The University of West Alabama’s (UWA’s) education and nursing programs have hands-on field experiences during ...
If you have attended a professional conference, then you have likely experienced or are familiar ...
This is a required course. To many of you it looks (and may well be) ...
It is widely assumed among faculty that students reward easy grades with good evaluations, which ...
The new academic year is fast approaching, and course preparations are either underway or on ...
Around an image of Yoda’s face, block letters urge, “Read the syllabus you must.” This ...
For years I have used a game I call the Blame Game in my Intellectual ...
Webinars can be valuable additions to online courses because they lend a synchronous element to ...
A host of studies have shown that feedback is one of the most important elements ...
Humor has a place in education. College teachers can use it to create a welcoming ...
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Fresh from winter break, my students want to test my boundaries—and they should. But even ...
In August 2017, Inside Higher Ed featured an article describing a controversial “stress reduction policy” ...
About seven years ago I wrote a blog post about a family meltdown. My manually dexterous and spatially oriented engineer spouse was trying to tell me and my not mentally ...
Long ago I learned that the best way to tour a city is by bike. A car isolates a tourist from a city, while a bike immerses them in it. ...
“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”
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