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Faculty Development For You & Your College

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

Interviewing Tips for Teachers

I recently responded to a question posted on HubPages.  The person who posted it wanted to know what the most common interview questions where for teachers. Common Teacher Interview Questions If you preparing to interview for a college… 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

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

The 5th Habit of Highly Effective College Instructors

Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood Stephen Covey’s 5th Habit of Highly Effective People addresses an important aspect of interpersonal communication.  Covey begins with a claim that really applies to me.  He says, “We have… Read More

The 1st of 7 Principles of Good Teaching

Frequent Student-Faculty Contact David Royse (2001) (see my References page) gives an especially good summary of Chickering and Gamson’s findings after many years of research into teaching and learning. Here are the seven principles as… Read More

College Instructor – Mini-Lesson #1

A simple way to lose your job. There will always be students who enroll in courses and drop during the term. I put them into three categories: There is the “infant mortality” group who attend one class and then get while the gettin’ is… Read More

Rules Are Rules

Do I see a pattern here? There are so many policies and procedures to follow when teaching a college course. Where do you begin? In my opinion, the place to begin is by identifying what is in writing. Does your college have a policy manual or… Read More

Can You Be Too Kind?

When a student tells you he has a learning disability, you cannot be too kind. Right? The answer is sometimes. I have the privilege of working with so many kind and caring adjunct faculty. Occasionally, in their attempts to be kind and caring,… Read More