Do you pass inspection? Think about the best college instructor you ever had. What was special about him or her? How do you match up to that standard? More importantly, how do your students and your college administrators judge your… Read More
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Motivation. Is that asking too much? The first day of class, I had a standard agenda I would follow: Introduce Myself Have Students Introduce Themselves Lead Class in an Icebreaker Activity Review the Syllabus Shock Them Clarify… Read More 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 Try some of these “Fun things” ! While looking for jokes online, I found a list entitled “50 Fun Things For Professors To Do.” I didn’t think too many of them were worthy of this Blog, though I did have to chuckle at a few. Then I… 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 Adjunct Social Networking with Blogs A few weeks ago, I posted the following discussion question on the LinkedIn Group, Able Adjuncts: Adjunct Hurdles & Pitfalls – I want to help adjunct faculty avoid the pitfalls I have observed. What… Read More Use YouTube Videos as Teaching Aids Each time I check for online I find more and better videos, ones well suited for the college classroom. There are variety of reasons an instructor should use this vast resource. Several years ago, I taught a… Read More You are going to wonder why I am telling you this story! I recently read The Devil in the White City. This book weaves together the fascinating history of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition with the macabre, heinous acts of one of the… Read More 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 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 |
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