You can help your students learn through acting, just one of the many creative instructional techniques you can use in the college classroom. Of course, we are not talking about performing Hamlet in a Calculus class. Shakespeare does not… 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 College instructors lament over the fact that many students do not heed their syllabi. The suspicion is that they don’t read them. The problem might be solved if instructors wrote short, simple, easy-to-read syllabi. Or would it? Before I… Read More Teaching college courses is tough, especially for new adjuncts. Over the last week, four of my adjuncts have come to me for advice. They have each had troubling issues with students. I think I was able to help each of them. Each of them… Read More For years, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been near the top of the list of college teaching advice. Recently, I wrote another article on this subject. Note: Before you spend more than $100 on a used copy of Bloom’s original book, I encourage you to… Read More The time is approaching. You are about to give your college students their first big exam. What will the outcome be? For some of you, I am afraid I know. Some of your students may fail your exam. Among that hopefully very small group, one… 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 Why Do Parents Try to Solve the Problems of Their College Student Children? In my article entitled A Parent Guide for Helping College Students, I explain the phenomenon that causes some well-intending parents to be labeled Helicopter Parents. … Read More What Award Winning Instructors Have to Say to New Faculty Members I began reading a book I purchased in 2008. (Memo to self: Next week stop procrastinating. |
You will definitely like this! You might be a redneck college teacher if ... No. 13: the last time you posted your notes online, students complained because you hung them right next to your wet Long Johns.
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) Any way, in their book “Practical Magic” (2003) Roueche, Milliron &… 
