How do you know you are grading your students fairly? Do your students grades reflect your performance as a teacher? What can you learn about your students’ learning from the class grade distribution? College Student Grade Distributions You say… Read More
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How difficult is it for an experienced university instructor to teach at a community college? What are the characteristics of a good community college instructor? These are the questions a university professor moving to a community college… Read More Avoid Complaints that Students Don’t Understand You “Explaining Clearly” is the title of Chapter 16 in Barbara Gross Davis’s book, Tools for Teaching. Explaining things clearly is vital for avoiding one of the most common complaints college… Read More The Difference Between Teaching and Telling Creating More Learning-Centered Community Colleges is the title of a “monograph” written by Terry O’Banion in 1997, and published by the League for Innovation. Everything O’Banion had to say… Read More … what College Students Lack the Most … at least that is what many of the experts say. At the end of the post, I have included some advice out of one of the books I recommend. However, as I mention on my The Blog page, “What most… Read More What Every College Instructor Needs to Know I want to share some advice for creating assignments and writing test questions based on the work of Benjamin Bloom, specifically Bloom’s Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy is well known by many academics…. Read More No, but you do need to help them learn. A common complaint I hear from students is that their teacher doesn’t explain things well. It may be that the instructor actually explains things extremely well. However, students learn by more than… Read More Yes, I know you would never do that.(I am right about that, aren’t I?) Note: Don’t miss my recommended instructor mantra at the end of this post! My first piece of advice … you guessed it … DON’T DO IT! You may want to give yourself a… Read More Mnemonics Mnemonic devices are memory aids. If you want to help your students learn, you may want to share some mnemonics tips with them. You probably don’t have a lot of time to teach mnemonics to your students, and some of your students may… Read More Do I Need to Know This Stuff? |
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No, you don’t need to be expert in the field of educational psychology to be a good instructor, not that it wouldn’t help mind you. As I stated on my “About” page, there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of… 