Oct 22, 2018
If you teach a class where you have lots of group activities, as I do, you inevitably face the issue of how to divide the class up. If your class already clumps into prickly social pods, then letting them group themselves risks replicating the same social order. But...
Oct 22, 2018
At what point do kids lose their interest in school? It happens, let’s not fool ourselves. How do we take a human, that is intensely curious of the world and grind that out of them? Watch any growing up and you can see them performing experiments constantly. The...
Oct 22, 2018
The use of simulation in nursing education offers students a safe, controlled environment to experience simulated patient care experiences or to practice or be evaluated on nursing skills. Simulation is used here in our NMC simulation lab to connect classroom learning...
Oct 21, 2018
**The actual title of this post is “I Just Want Them to Like Trust Me” but that formatting doesn’t hold in the title bar. One of the things I’ve discovered about teaching is how difficult it is to admit to myself that sometimes I just want my...
Oct 20, 2018
A student mentioned the other day that he had learned more in the last 8 weeks of class than he learned in all of high school. I am not sure how active he was in his high school classes, but I never saw him doing homework outside of the classroom. He also said that...
