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When students ask us, as they occasionally do, “I wasn't in class yesterday. Did I miss anything important?” most of us feel at least a bit of disrespect and some aggravation. If we take the ...
Did you know that the average attention span in the year 2000 was 12 seconds? And 12 years later, in the year 2012, the average attention span had gone down to eight seconds. So by ...
In higher education, we often think about how we can improve our teaching and learning. If you are like me, you wrestle with this question after a well-prepared lecture does not go as expected, or ...
Some tips to be more creative, optimistic, enthusiastic, approachable, and humorous.
“At a superficial level, everyone ‘knows' what mentoring is. But closer examination indicates [such wide variation . . .] that the concept is devalued, because everyone is using it loosely, without precision, and it may ...
After teaching statistics classes for more than twenty-five years and seeing so many students struggling to be successful, I became increasingly frustrated by the fact that no matter how much I believed myself to be ...
Most of the talk in courses is about content, but there is also talk about noncontent matters. We may try to create a sense of community in the course; we may try to motivate students, ...
These behaviors, studied at length in the Communication Education research, “refer to any instructor classroom behavior that interferes with instruction and learning.” (p. 133). They were first identified in research published in 1991and have in ...
That's not a new finding, and it's something most instructors already know, but it's the size of the difference that's often underestimated. Two recent studies, both asking different research questions and using different methodologies, offer ...
Being flexible is one of those ongoing challenges for teachers. There's the desire to be responsive to student needs—life does happen—but then students have been known to take advantage of teachers and granting the request ...
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