Unfortunately, all too often performance on the first exam predicts performance throughout the course, especially for those students who do poorly on the first test.
A recent and excellent article that proposes a model for “building teams that learn” recommends that teachers have students develop a team charter early in
Most teachers love teaching metaphors—the teacher as guide, as coach, as gardener, as maestro in front of the orchestra. At some point in our careers
Students nowadays can be pretty demanding about wanting the teacher’s PowerPoints, lecture notes, and other written forms of the content presented in class. And a
Should students take notes? What about giving students access to your PowerPoint slides and lecture notes? Students have been known to ask for them pretty
My colleague Chuck Walker, a psychology professor at St. Bonaventure University (NY), shared a collection of instructional strategies that illustrate how the principles of positive
Good answers depend on good questions. That’s why we work so hard on the content of our questions and why we should work with students
When student ratings first started being widely used and the research associated with them was prolific, many faculty objected to the focus on teaching effectiveness.
In the article referenced below, biologist Kimberly Tanner proposes a set of strategies to ensure that “all students have opportunities to verbally participate, all students
For many of us, learning to teach in a different way is a long and not always easy journey. Old habits die hard. Moreover, most
