This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on April 1, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. During my recent sabbatical, I had the unique opportunity
University-level instructors need strategies to assist with engaging students intellectually in the critical work of centering classroom thinking and scholarship on equity and social justice.
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
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 11, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. How many of us teachers have had this experience?
I teach a postgraduate module in the United Kingdom that has a high percentage enrollment of international students, and I have always struggled to find
Communication is a vital part of any organization, and this is especially the case at institutions of higher education. Without frequent, focused, and public communication,
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 15, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. In August 2017, Inside Higher Ed featured an article describing a controversial “stress
How are your students doing this semester with their assignments? This is not a trick question, I promise! In my role as a consultant in
It is widely known that as an institution, higher education is laden with historical and structural racism. From the role of slave labor and the
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on June 3, 2019. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. I give students in my literature courses a lot