This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 21, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. For many years, I have tried to explain what
An important lesson I learned over the years while teaching in academia is that kindness and connection matter in a course. Showing up for students
Tell your class a story. Students will better connect to the instructor and coursework with “stories that both induce feeling and help us to understand
Have you wanted to incorporate current social issues into your course but struggled to do so? Are you looking for unusual ways to introduce the
Entering into the coteaching realm in higher education can be a daunting, intimidating, and/or bewildering concept. For the purpose of this article, we use the
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 21, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. The first time my middle school-aged son attended a
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 17, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Over the years, course syllabi have evolved from a
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on August 19, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Around an image of Yoda’s face, block letters urge,
Imagine that you are a first-year student in a biology course. The goal of today’s class is to describe the topic of biology: What is
When students first enter your class, whether it be in person or in a virtual setting, what do the students see? Is there anything for