A researcher who was surveying high school students about “cheating” was confronted by a student, “Before I can tell you if I have ever cheated, you must define cheating.” The researcher explained to the young student that, for example, sitting next...
While the students are taking their exam, you look up from the paper you're grading and see a student repeatedly looking at another student's exam. When your eyes meet his, he appears nervous. What should you do next?
Diversity and Teaching [+] Teaching in the diverse classroom in a global economy means more than addressing issues of diversity or multi-culturalism. We must be aware of how we treat our students, of how our students treat us, and of how our students treat each other.
Effective Teacher Attributes [+] “Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.
Phase 1: You are listening to jazz — Your first day at work is great. Your fellow teachers are wonderful, your classroom is cute, you love your students, and your principal is the best!
Inspirational Materials [+] This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
The spring semester is over. Final grades are posted, and committee meetings are on summer hiatus. And so ends my third year, sixth semester, and 33rd month as a college faculty member.
Learning Styles and Strategies [+] PowerPoint is versatile in allowing us to add multimedia (graphics, sound, audio, video, text, animation, etc.) to our presentations for keeping online students’ rapt attention.
In the space of one generation, college students have gone from studying with highlighters and wire notebooks to laptops, netbooks and, now, iPads.
"This may surprise you, but students were engaging in sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll long before Facebook, and will long after Facebook is not of interest to anyone," Mr. McDonald said.
Given teaching loads and the regular demands of academic life, it’s not realistic to expect teachers to take classes, but when they do, what they learn about teaching is extraordinary.
Tales from the Trenches [+] Elliott West doesn't seem like the coolest guy on campus. With his tweed coat and thinning hair, he appears to be the stereotype of a studious professor, only truly at home among library stacks or in a dusty archive
The following is a brief summary of an article that appeared as a posting on the Tomorrow's Professor (SM) Mailing List. The author, Mary McKinney, Ph.D. suggests some methods for instructors to ease stress by setting boundaries.
Email is a fact of life and for many of today's technology savvy students, life without it is beyond the scope of their experience. As a college or university instructor, you can expect your in-box to be inundated.
What do most college professors have in common with Billy Joel, Reverend Billy Graham, Bill Murray, and Bill Clinton? Few of us are named "Bill," so that's not it. Rather, it is our occupational dependence on our voices
Understanding Students [+] Or what about this hoary chestnut: students today are impatient, incapable of waiting, and demand instant gratification, and any delay or requirement that effort be expended simply leads them to click off to some other site.
If you have ever wondered why “youngsters from Japan, Korea, Singapore, Chinese-Taipei, Hong Kong-China, and Macao-China all demonstrate deeper content knowledge a couple of interesting explanations are provided below.
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