The podcast ” In The Classroom, Common Ground Can Transform GPAs” on Hidden Brain with host Shankar Vedantam, we begin to see the tremendous benefit of connecting with your students – finding common ground. Of course, we already know that connecting...
Watching the digital dashboard after enrollment opens is especially gratifying when the numbers are ahead of last year. Take today for example, we are 565 students ahead for spring enrollment than we were on the comparable date in 2015. Comparing enrollment with the...
Two weeks ago, I handed out mid-semester feedback forms to my students. They got two forms–one where they gave me feedback on my leading of the class, and one where they did some reflecting on their own success and challenges so far in the class. I think this...
In a word – YES! Who doesn’t like to have a moment of investigation and play? Where you can sit and observe, examine and play? Models are show-and-tell in the classroom. They provide us a quick hands-on tool to put theories to the test. Models allow us to...
“Are we doing anything important today?” asks the early college student as she walks in to the classroom on a sunny afternoon. I am passing back assignments from last week’s class. I give her a puzzled look and ask her why she is asking the question; “well I have to...
