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).