Students ask all different kinds of questions. Some are on the money—good, honest queries about content that they don’t understand or want to know more
No matter how much we debate the issue, end-of-course evaluations count. How much they count is a matter of perspective. They matter if you care
Good study skills are the key to successful performance on exams in college, and good study skills are what many of today’s college students don’t
When it comes to class notes, we all know that students would much rather get the teacher’s notes or PowerPoints than write their own for
I have been wanting to do a blog post on tired teaching for some time now. Concerns about burnout are what’s motivating me. Teachers can
As a follow-up to last week’s post, here’s a final bit from my rummaging around old favorites in my personal library of teaching and learning
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to reread some of my favorite teaching and learning resources, especially those I haven’t looked at in a
In last week’s post, we looked at a sample of the discipline-based evidence in support of quizzes with the goal of gaining a better understanding
I don’t know a single teacher who doesn’t try to use questions to encourage student interaction. The problem is that most of us don’t spend
There’s a lot of talk these days about evidence-based instructional practices, so much that I’ve gotten worried we aren’t thinking enough about what that means.
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