upcoming themes and deadlines

March 2024: Academic integrity

Potential topics

  • Student (and faculty) beliefs about academic integrity
  • Reasons that student cheat—and how to address these
  • Convincing 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 2024: Teaching and learning with technology (deadline February 19)

Potential topics

  • What the teaching and learning research says about educational technologies’ effectiveness
  • Appreciations or reconsiderations of old or obsolete classroom technologies
  • Equity/accessibility and ed tech
  • Unusual or against-the-grain uses of familiar technology tools
  • Avenues of learning both opened up and foreclosed by educational technologies
 

May 2024: Ending a course (deadline March 18)

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 as summer (or graduation) approaches
  • Bringing closure to an unsuccessful course
 

June 2024: Professional growth (deadline April 19)

Potential topics

  • How generative AI has shaped how you approach teaching
  • Teaching failures and how to grow from them
  • The challenge of unlearning ineffective teaching practices
  • Overcoming the expert blind spot
  • New perspectives on student evaluations of teaching
  • Your own learning experiences (in school or otherwise) and how these inform your understanding of your students’ learning

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

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