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- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21
- Self-Directed Learning: Antecedents and OutcomesDecember 03
- Evidence of Evidence-Based TeachingDecember 02
- Rejuvenating Experiences: Tales of an Unlikely Classroom CollaborationNovember 20
- Are We Clear? Tips for Crafting Better ExplanationsNovember 18
- Examining the Benefits of Cumulative Tests and FinalsNovember 13
- Caring About Students MattersNovember 11
- Do Online Students Cheat More on Tests?November 06
- Step Away from the LecternNovember 04
- Peer Assessment that Improves Performance in GroupsOctober 29
- What's a Good Faith Effort?October 28
- Thinking about Teaching and LearningOctober 21
- Calculating Final Course Grades: What about Dropping Scores or Offering a Replacement?October 20
- How Concerned Should We Be About Cell Phones in Class?October 14
- Student-Written Exams Increase Student InvolvementOctober 08
- Teaching Concerns of New (and Not So New?) TeachersOctober 07
- Provide ‘Feedforward’ with ExemplarsOctober 01
- Nine Ways to Improve Class DiscussionsSeptember 30
- Expectations, Underestimations, and RealitiesSeptember 23
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Test QuestionsSeptember 22
- The Names We Give to Our Instructional StrategiesSeptember 18
- Student Ratings—Reminders and SuggestionsSeptember 16
- Exploring the Advantages of RubricsSeptember 09
- Four Key Questions About Large ClassesSeptember 02
- Using Grading Policies to Promote LearningAugust 26
- An Interesting Group Testing OptionAugust 21
- The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester OpportunityAugust 19
- How Do You Learn?August 12
- What Kind of Feedback Helps Students Who Are Doing Poorly?August 05
- Cooperative Learning Structures and Deep LearningJuly 17
- Getting Students to Do the ReadingJune 26
- The Power of Language to Influence Thought and ActionJune 24
- What Is Teaching without Learning?June 17
- Can We Teach Students How to Pay Attention?June 10
- More Evidence That Active Learning Trumps LecturingJune 03
- Taking Risks in Your TeachingMay 29
- Let Students Summarize the Previous LessonMay 20
- Developing a Teaching PersonaMay 13
- Lost in a Sea of Yellow: Teaching Students a Better Way to HighlightMay 06
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty: Relationships that WorkApril 29
- Helping Students Who Are Performing PoorlyApril 24
- Promoting Academic Integrity: Are We Doing Enough?April 22
- Pedagogical Knowledge: Three Worlds ApartApril 15
- How Assignment Design Shapes Student LearningApril 08
- What We Have and Haven’t LearnedApril 01
- Teachers, Students and the Classroom TangoMarch 25
- Using Cumulative Exams to Help Students Revisit, Review, and Retain Course ContentMarch 18
- Three Questions to Reframe the Online Learning ConversationMarch 11
- Different Types of Group Work: Clearing up the ConfusionMarch 04
- The Power of Teachers' Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students' QuestionsFebruary 27
- Use Team Charters to Improve Group AssignmentsFebruary 26
- Cohort Groups Can Present Special ChallengesFebruary 25
- Why Students Should Be Taking NotesFebruary 20
- Office Hours ReduxFebruary 18
- Office Hours Alternative Resonates with StudentsFebruary 17
- Don’t Assume Difficult Question Automatically Lead to Higher-Order ThinkingFebruary 13
- Our Ongoing Quest to Improve Student Learning: High Standards and Realistic ExpectationsFebruary 11
- Group Work: What Do Students Want from Their Teammates?February 04
- Giving and Receiving Instructional AdviceFebruary 03
- How to Help Students Improve Their Note-Taking SkillsJanuary 30
- Finding a Place for Creative Assignments in Your CourseJanuary 29
- First Exam of the Semester: A Wake-up Call for StudentsJanuary 28
- It's Not Too Early to Begin Preparing Students for Cumulative FinalsJanuary 23
- Why Students Don’t Attend Office HoursJanuary 21
- Keeping Students on Board with Concept MapsJanuary 20
- Effective Ways to Structure DiscussionJanuary 14
- Plagiarism: An Interesting Disconnect between Students' Thoughts and ActionsJanuary 13
- A "Best of" List that Celebrates the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningJanuary 07
- Our Weekly Conversation about Teaching and LearningDecember 15
- Developing Students’ Self-Assessment SkillsDecember 10
- Why We Believe in Our Students, a Timely ReminderDecember 03
- Teaching Practices Inventory Provides Tool to Help You Examine Your TeachingNovember 19
- Prompts to Help Students Reflect on How They Approach LearningNovember 12
- Threshold Concepts: Portals to New Ways of ThinkingNovember 07
- What Can We Learn from Accidental Learning?November 05
- A Few Concerns about the Rush to FlipOctober 29
- Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study FindsOctober 28
- Texting in Class: Extent, Attitudes, Other Interesting InformationOctober 24
- The Relationship between Participation and DiscussionOctober 22
- Could We Be Doing Better with Our Assignments?October 15
- Is It Time to Rethink How We Grade Participation?October 08
- When Should We Lecture?October 01
- Group Work Challenge: Assessing Team MembersSeptember 26
- Diversifying the Role Course Content PlaysSeptember 24
- Does Discussion Make a Difference?September 19
- When to Use Whole Class FeedbackSeptember 17
- 10 Recommendations for Improving Group WorkSeptember 12
- "She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.”September 10
- Those Magical and Mysterious Learning MomentsSeptember 03
- Reality Check: Helping to Manage Student ExpectationsAugust 20
- Motivating Students: Should Effort Count?August 13
- Four Key Questions about GradingAugust 06
- Feeling Unable to LearnJuly 30
- Designing Developmentally Appropriate Writing AssignmentsJuly 11
- Creating a Respectful Classroom EnvironmentJuly 02
- What’s Your Relationship with Your Textbook?June 25
- An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared ResponsibilityJune 18
- Playing with QuestionsJune 11
- “I Tried It and It Didn’t Work!”June 04
- The Art of Asking QuestionsMay 28
- Making the Most of Professional Development DaysMay 21
- Teaching Introductory Courses: What Is the Public Face of Your Field?May 15
- Is Rereading the Material a Good Study Strategy?May 14
- Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something NewMay 07
- Teaching Effectiveness: The Definitions of Teachers and StudentsMay 01
- What’s the Story on Learning Styles?April 30
- Class Discussion Challenge: Getting Students to Listen and Respond to Each Other's CommentsApril 23
- What’s an Empowered Student?April 16
- Do Cumulative Exams Motivate Students?April 10
- Creating Learning Environments that Help Students Stretch and Grow as LearnersApril 09
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryApril 02
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?March 26
- Four Lessons about Learning Discovered on a ChairliftMarch 19
- A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group WorkMarch 12
- Learning from Our Teaching MistakesMarch 11
- Tips for Writing Good Multiple-Choice QuestionsMarch 05
- Discussion Made a Difference in Student LearningMarch 04
- Does It Matter How Students Feel about a Course?February 28
- Examining Your Multiple-Choice QuestionsFebruary 26
- Adding Choice to Assignment Options: A Few Course Design ConsiderationsFebruary 20
- The Emotions That Fuel Our TeachingFebruary 19
- Peer Learning: An UpdateFebruary 13
- The Teaching-Learning SynergyFebruary 12
- Thinking of Collaborative Teaching? A Few Things to ConsiderFebruary 07
- A Follow-up to the Group Testing ArticleFebruary 05
- Four Student Misconceptions about LearningJanuary 29
- Students and Attention: An Interesting AnalysisJanuary 23
- Seven Characteristics of Good LearnersJanuary 22
- Group Testing-taking Options to ConsiderJanuary 15
- Why Don’t Students Use Teacher Feedback to Improve?January 14
- What Components Make Group Work Successful?January 09
- The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on LearningJanuary 08
- A Quiz Design that Motivates StudentsDecember 19
- Why I BlogDecember 18
- The Trouble with Consistency in Instructional Practices and PoliciesDecember 11
- Three Ways to Help Students Become More Metacognitively AwareDecember 10
- What Kind of Career Advice Should We Give Our Students?December 04
- Students, Studying, and Multiple-Choice QuestionsNovember 22
- Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking SkillsNovember 20
- Two Activities that Influence the Climate for LearningNovember 13
- Course Satisfaction for Adult StudentsNovember 07
- Better Questions are the AnswerNovember 06
- You Got Students Talking about Their Experiences, Now What?October 30
- Grading Participation: An Alternative to Talking for PointsOctober 23
- New Evidence on Cooperative LearningOctober 22
- Learning from Experience: Why Personal Narratives Can Be ScholarlyOctober 16
- Do Students Work Less in Courses Offered in Compressed Time Frames?October 11
- Unraveling the Messages Our Behaviors Send to StudentsOctober 09
- An Intriguing Participation PolicyOctober 02
- Structuring Discussions: Online and Face-to-FaceSeptember 25
- Encouraging Student Participation: Why It Pays to Sweat the Small StuffSeptember 18
- Are Student-Professor Relationships More Important in Hard Courses?September 12
- The Interaction Between Content, Character, and Teaching StyleSeptember 11
- Fostering the Reciprocity of LearningSeptember 04
- Prompts That Get Students to Analyze, Reflect, Relate, and QuestionAugust 28
- Five Things to Do on the First Day of ClassAugust 21
- How We Learn and How We TeachAugust 14
- Helping Students Learn to be ProfessionalAugust 07
- Using a Blog to Enhance Student ParticipationAugust 02
- Better Group Work Experiences Begin with How the Groups Are FormedJuly 31
- Choosing and Using TextbooksJuly 24
- Learning with Students vs. Doing for StudentsJuly 10
- Dead Ideas That Limit Teaching and LearningJune 26
- Inquiry-Based Approaches: What Do Students Think?June 25
- When Teaching Large Classes, Think Like a TutorJune 21
- Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the ClassroomJune 19
- Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our StoriesJune 12
- Becoming a Better Teacher: Principles That Make Improvement a Positive ProcessJune 06
- Questions about All Those Questions Teachers AskJune 05
- Course Redesign Finds Right Blend of Content Delivery and Active LearningJune 04
- Understanding the Role of Intuition in TeachingMay 29
- How to Get Better Feedback from StudentsMay 22
- Student Motivation: It’s More Complicated Than We ThinkMay 17
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Good Places to BeginMay 15
- Exams: Maximizing Their Learning PotentialMay 10
- Helping Students Understand the Benefits of Study GroupsMay 08
- Assessing Critical Thinking SkillsMay 03
- It's Time to Face What Isn't Working in Our Courses and Find Out WhyMay 01
- Millennial Students Aren’t All the SameApril 30
- Tough Questions on Texting in the ClassroomApril 24
- Exploring the Impact of Institutional Policies on TeachingApril 19
- Helping Students Discuss Technical ContentApril 17
- Moving up Bloom’s Taxonomy in an Introductory Course: What's Being DoneApril 12
- Facilitating Effective Classroom Discussion, the Devil is in the DetailsApril 10
- Active Learning: Changed Attitudes and Improved PerformanceApril 09
- What Group Dynamics Can Teach Us about Classroom LearningApril 05
- ‘What Works’ in the Messy Landscape of Teaching and LearningApril 04
- Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on Their FeedbackApril 03
- How to Handle Student ExcusesMarch 28
- Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key FactorsMarch 27
- Why Doesn’t Teacher Feedback Improve Student Performance?March 26
- Five Things Students Can Learn through Group WorkMarch 20
- When a Student’s Comment Feels Like a Personal AttackMarch 13
- The ‘I Deserve a Better Grade on This’ ConversationMarch 12
- Classroom Management: Finding the Balance Between Too Rigid and Too FlexibleMarch 08
- What Types of Writing Assignments Are in Your Syllabus?March 06
- Test Review Sessions: A Better DesignMarch 05
- The Effects of Collaborative TestingMarch 01
- Crib Sheets Help Students Prioritize and Organize Course ContentFebruary 27
- Using Reading Groups to Get Students ReadingFebruary 26
- Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?February 21