The “Sandwich Method”—a layer of praise, one of critique, followed by a final layer of praise. This method has been a staple in college classrooms for years. Is the Sandwich Method still pr...
Dear Fellow Educators, As we near the end of another semester, I sense a rise in activity and busyness across campus. The stress is starting to seep in with many approaching deadlines looming. ...
High impact practices (HIPs) have been in higher education for nearly two decades and include practices that are effective for a wide range of students, particularly students from historically un...
How can we boost student learning retention in our courses? How can we help our students transform newly acquired information into long-term knowledge they can recall and activate in the future? ...
Crafting an effective teaching experience parallels the art of carpentry as both require a diverse and well-equipped toolbox. Just as a carpenter needs various tools to create a masterpiece, educ...
Just as spring brings the promise of new life, the new year brings hope for a new beginning. It provides an opportunity to identify aspects of the previous year that brought joy and fulfillment, ...
Calvin and Hobbes has been my favorite comic strip ever since I discovered it in my youth. The comic strip was unique in its visuals, hilarious, and highly relatable. As I continue to revisit the...
I began my teaching career in August of 2001. Over the years, I have seen countless instructional plans, new technologies, supposedly groundbreaking research, and have attended every type of prof...
Reflecting on my first year as a full-time clinical assistant professor, I feel that I have experienced significant growth in my teaching. Previously, as an adjunct, I often had to create course ...
We make sense of the world around us by using a variety of internal lenses. Our learning may be more abstract than concrete, more right-brain than left-brain, more visual processing than auditory...
Most of us think we know what active learning is. The word engagement quickly comes to mind. Or, we describe what it isn’t: passive learning. Definitions also abound, the one proposed by Bonwel...