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I highly recommend Teaching For Success®, the online journal published by Jack Shrawder.

Successful Beginnings for College Teaching

How does a college instructor develop and maintain rapport with students? This has challenged even the most experienced instructors. Successful Beginnings The author of Successful Beginnings, Angela Provitera McGlynn, has provided some… Read More

What Scares College Instructors Most?

Learn what instructors say scares them the most. What Scares You About Teaching College Courses? I want to address what instructors fear. What about teaching scares you, maybe just a little or maybe a lot? Leave me a comment. I will publish the… Read More

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FERPA Defined Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) – What college teachers need to know is that FERPA prohibits them from sharing information about students’ educational records with anyone inside and outside the college who does not… Read More

Lesson Plans for College Courses

Recently, a reader asked me how to prepare for weekly lectures. What a great question, surely one all new adjuncts have asked themselves and others. I responded by suggesting he consider a broader question, how to prepare a lesson… Read More

For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Colleges

I have worked for not-for-profit community colleges for more than 14 years. Over the last 5 years, my college has hired several employees who “jumped ship” from local for-profit institutions. Personally, I have hired two intelligent, talented… Read More

Student Engagement Techniques

Student engagement doesn’t just happen; you have to make it happen.  Here are some student engagement techniques (SET’s) that you may want to try. Engagement Techniques – A Handbook for College Faculty I have borrowed a few ideas from… Read More

The KHAN ACADEMY and the College Classroom

Find out how the Khan Academy can help you teach and help your students learn. Videos Inside and Outside the Classroom Almost exactly one year ago I wrote an article entitled YouTube and the College Instructor – Engaging Your Students with YouTube… Read More

10 Terrible Mistakes College Teachers Make

Confused about how to teach? The best thing you can do is avoid mistakes. There are 10 Terrible Mistakes College Teachers Make. Learn how to avoid teaching mistakes. Most of the college instructors I have known don’t make these 10… Read More

Four Traits of Great College Instructors

… or, how getting straight C’s puts you at the top of the class. First, my thanks go out to Mark Williams from the Illinois State Board of Education. As Division Administrator for Career Development & Preparation, Mark provided the keynote… Read More

What Your Dean Will Hate

… and so will your students! (First let me say that, no, I am not ignoring you. It’s been pretty hectic this semester.) One of the worst things you can do is ……. I think you know this …. anything that will cause studenta to come to him… Read More