News Roundup: Preparing for Midsemester
This week, professors offer suggestions for teaching midsemester, such as providing materials to prepare students for receiving their first big grade and remembering to focus
This week, professors offer suggestions for teaching midsemester, such as providing materials to prepare students for receiving their first big grade and remembering to focus
One professor describes how Google’s research on teamwork can be applied to higher education, and another explains how instructors can rediscover their excitement for teaching.
Two professors describe ways instructors can promote students’ learning in lectures, and award-winning faculty weigh in on what good teaching looks like. Sign up for
One instructor develops regrouping strategies after Hurricane Irma, and another suggests ways of recognizing faculty who serve as “emotional laborers.” Sign up for The Q
A Chronicle of Higher Education special report highlights programs that help new and future faculty become better instructors, and an education professor describes the benefits
Editor’s note: This post is written by Martha Bless, an academic lead for ACUE, and Steve Mark, director of the Center for Teaching at Housatonic
Professor Laura Turiano knew she needed to try something different. Turiano and the students in her human services class at Housatonic Community College (HCC) were about