
Give Your Students Tools for Effective Learning
First days of class are really fun. Or at least they can be. There is the energy of starting a new year and seeing a

First days of class are really fun. Or at least they can be. There is the energy of starting a new year and seeing a

Do you remember life before smartphones?
If 2007 was a watershed moment, influencing and shaping a new generation that would grow up with iPhones,

Look around you. Unless you are sequestered alone, there is a good chance a human around you is looking at their phone. If you

In a now-classic scene in Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV for those of you keeping track), pilot Luke Skywalker has one shot

I have a brown wicker chair on my back porch. It is nestled in a little nook, shaded by the overhang of my roof

What if a student was having trouble understanding an assignment, and they asked a smart friend to help them? This person had not taken

A junior colleague asked me whether teaching for many years made me thicker skinned. They wondered whether reading student evaluations gets easier with time.

Do students consider you a “hard-ass”? If so, is that a bad thing? Rigor may have its benefits, but there may just be a

“How do I fill up four hours a week of class time?” At first, this exclamation from a first-year graduate student preparing to teach

Every January, millions of people around the world resolve to do things differently. Some want to eat better. Some want to keep in better