The Teaching Professor
I recently had the great pleasure of reading Bill Bryson’s new book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants. It’s classic Bryson: a fascinating, well-told, hilarious overview of how the seven ...
An engineer once told me that he needed to teach himself engineering in college. By ...
It may happen only once in a 50-minute class. It may not take place at ...
Sometimes we are asked to step in during an emergency situation when a colleague cannot ...
Dear Students, Confused by remote learning? Uncertain? Anxious? Worried? Stressed? Unclear what next week will bring? ...
Most higher education institutions have put their classes online for the remainder of the term. ...
We observed a new level of interest and excitement among participants during a recent faculty-teaching ...
I think I killed my yeast. It has been years, nay, decades, since I last baked ...
I often wonder what students think about the assignments we create. In my experience, they ...
A national survey found that Generation Z students (defined as those born between 1995 and ...
Students take a 10-question quiz at the beginning of class, and it’s graded immediately. The ...
It is mid-semester, and you are excited as you have spent a lot of time ...
I’m a big fan of syllabi used well. On the crassest level—and it’s important—syllabi are ...
How Can I Assess Students in My Online Classes through Student-Created Videos?
In this session, you’ll learn about the technical, practical, and pedagogical aspects of assessing students through student-generated videos. Watch Now »
Do you use auto-graded multiple-choice and true-false quizzes and exams? If so, why? Is it ...
It may happen only once in a 50-minute class. It may not take place at ...
New findings about test anxiety are providing a more nuanced understanding of how it affects performance on exams. So far, the response to students overly anxious about exams has been ...
Most higher education institutions have put their classes online for the remainder of the term. Higher education is well positioned to take classes online because so much of teaching in ...
“Learning is not linear, and meaningful learning resists being quantified. Our assessment approaches should create space for learning not arbitrarily delimit it. How, for example, can we ‘test’ whether a student has had an epiphany? What standardized mechanism can account for a student learning experience we (and they) couldn’t have anticipated? . . . These kinds of questions call for a pedagogy that is less algorithmic and more human, more subjective, more compassionate.”
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