Upcoming Themes and Deadlines

Upcoming Themes and Deadlines

March 2023: Academic integrity (deadline January 31)

Potential topics

• Student (and faculty) beliefs about academic integrity
• The reasons student cheat—and how to address these
• Persuading students of the importance of academic integrity
• Plagiarism—ways to prevent it and how to address it when it happens
• Building trust and accountability

April 2023: Experiential learning (deadline February 28)

Potential topics

• Where to begin with using experiential learning
• Limits, challenges, and failures of experiential learning
• Experiential learning in theory-driven courses
• How to assess learning done experientially (criteria, feedback, etc.)

May 2023: Ending a course (deadline March 20)

Potential topics

• Last-day-of-class activities
• Planning/designing the home stretch of a course
• Managing end-of-term stress, fatigue, etc. (your own and students’)
• Strategies for keeping students engaged and interested late in the term
• Bringing closure to an unsuccessful course

June 2023: Professional growth (deadline April 15)

Potential topics

• Critical reflections on how you’ve changed as a teacher three years into the pandemic
• Teaching failures and how to grow from them
• Unlearning ineffective teaching practices
• Overcoming the expert blind spot
• New perspectives on student evaluations of teaching

If you have questions about upcoming themes or suitable topics, please contact The Teaching Professor‘s managing editor, Jon Crylen (jon.crylen@magnapubs.com). See also our submission guidelines.