Potential topics
- What academic integrity means to students versus what it means to faculty
- Strategies for promoting academic integrity
- Reasons students cheat and how to address these
- Appropriate consequences for academic dishonesty
- Innovative ways to cheat-proof assignments
- What happens when academic dishonesty or its workplace equivalent is rewarded
November 2025: Student Success (deadline October 17)
Potential topics
- Defining “student success”—What do we mean when we talk about it?
- Success in a course versus success in relevant areas outside it
- Finding success in failure
- The relationship between short- and long-term success (e.g., within a course vs. over one’s college career)
- Success as a matter of collective rather than individual outcomes
December 2025: Professional Growth (deadline October 31)
Potential topics
- Teaching failures and how to grow from them
- The challenge of unlearning ineffective teaching practices
- Overcoming the expert blind spot
- How to approach student evaluations of teaching
- Your own learning experiences (in school or otherwise) and how these inform your understanding of your students’ learning
January 2026: Preparing to Teach (deadline November 28)
Potential topics
- Crafting an effective syllabus
- Redesigning assignments, assessments, and other components of a course you’ve previously taught
- Building relationships/rapport early in the term
- First-day-of-class activities that set the tone for learning
- Preparing to teach a course that’s new, that’s not your favorite, or that’s outside your comfort zone
Please carefully review our submission guidelines if you’re considering writing on an upcoming theme. Note that you needn’t write only about upcoming themes; we always welcome submissions on a wide range of topics. Likewise, if you miss the deadline for a given theme, we will still consider your submission for publication in a subsequent month. Should you have questions about themes or suitable topics, contact The Teaching Professor’s managing editor, Jon Crylen (jon.crylen@magnapubs.com).
