I regularly hear colleagues complaining that they never have time to discuss teaching, and I know this is true in my liberal arts and sciences campus at this large research…
Silvia Martins, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology in Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, faced a challenge in her introductory epidemiology course, Principles of Epidemiology. She…
…are isolated into cells (called departments, programs, and by rank). Directions for production travel to the faculty through the chain of command from the president, to the academic vice president,…
…teachers prepare formal lesson plans as a teaching and learning framework, and a road map for getting there. Successful lesson plans have five components: Goals: “Why am I teaching this…
…trying to highlight conversations around community—around intentional, deliberate decision making—and so we’re happy about the way the positions came together.” Goals In the next few years, Boquet’s and Melzer’s major…
…aggressive goals guiding me. First things first. Focus most time on the important and not urgent. That’s the planning, prevention, and systems work. Rank tasks in order of importance, and…
…desired learning outcomes for the course,” said Ike Shibley, associate professor of chemistry at Penn State – Berks. In other words, technology for the sake of technology is never good….
…educator and motivational speaker offers a perspective of being mission oriented to educators and others working with young people in our nation’s classrooms. He suggests affirming your goals and motivations…
