The Teaching Professor
As faculty we tend to chalk up students’ failure on assessments to lack of effort or lack of understanding of the material. But often that failure is due instead to ...
Do you teach a 50-minute class? Or perhaps you teach a longer block of time: ...
Earlier this year we asked you to share in-class small group activities and your best ...
One major advantage of online learning is that an instructor can use the power of ...
While there has been considerable interest in cognitive science in education, limited numbers of educators ...
Worksheets are commonly used in the K–12 realm to guide students through practice on new ...
A lot of professors assign readings as follows: students read a piece of text, respond ...
A couple of months ago we posted a series of questions about teacher questions—the ones ...
In the very first article I ever wrote for The Teaching Professor, I quoted Johann ...
After 35 years writing for The Teaching Professor, Maryellen Weimer signs off with her final column.
In this video, Sarah Lovern and Tom Saleska (Concordia University Wisconsin) share lessons from their polysynchronous teaching and provide ideas for creating a more effective learning environment.
“In the business of education there are no minorities, only minor thinking. For if education requires tuition but no meaning, if it is to be about nothing other than careers . . . then it can be stopped in the sixth grade, or the sixth century, when it had been mastered. The rest is reinforcement. The function of twentieth-century education must be to produce humane human beings. To refuse to continue to produce generation after generation of people trained to make expedient decisions rather than humane ones.”
—Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard
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