What to Include in the Syllabus: A Guide for New Instructors
The syllabus is the handbook to your course and the key to students understanding expectations. There are some crucial details every syllabus should have to insure success.
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How to Improve Your Work-Life Balance
Adjusting to a busy home and work schedule is hard enough. Adding the stress brought on by COVID-19 means that finding balance is even more important than before.
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The Best of Both Worlds: Teaching in a Hybrid Classroom
A hybrid class combines the powerful face to face conversations of a traditional classroom with the depth and time that students can have in online courses.
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Teaching in an ADA World
Understanding accessibility and how to meet the needs of students can benefit everyone in the class and create more equity for all.
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5 Best Practices to Make The Classroom Accessible to All
There are steps to building accessibility in the classroom that all educators can implement to engage and build equity for all learners.
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5 Ways to Make Online Teaching and Distance Learning Work for You
Having to suddenly transition to online teaching and distance learning in the wake of COVID-19 campus closures can be challenging, but there are a few ways to make your online course successful.
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Best 19 Apps to Use in the Classroom
Take your classroom to the next level beyond PowerPoint and Google Slides. These 19 apps can help create more powerful and memorable learning experiences.
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Knowing the Difference Between Equity vs. Equality
Though equity and equality are often used interchangeably, the difference in meaning is important to understand.
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What We Talk About in the Adjunct Office
Adjuncts care about student success and want to do their part to build community on campus, but they face challenges that differ from the rest of faculty.
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Everything You Need in Your Syllabus
This guide offers insight as to how a well organized and thought out syllabus is key to a streamlined classroom where both instructors and students understand the expectations.
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Let Publishers Do the Heavy Administrative Lifting
Preparing for a class can be stressful and time-consuming. Publishers aim to alleviate some of this by offering videos, slides and other forms of content ready to go for any class.
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Academic Dishonesty: 5 Methods of Identifying Cheating and Plagiarism
Most instructors know that when it comes to cheating & plagiarism, the best defense is a good offense. Here are some ways to create a plan that works for you.
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Best Practices to Make Your Class More Equitable
Creating an equitable classroom encourages students to empower themselves and learn more about their material and about each other.
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Inclusion Starts on Day 1: Making Classroom Empathy a Priority
Establishing an inclusive environment doesn’t happen overnight but starting on Day 1 can make inclusion and understanding the foundation of your classroom.
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Listen Up: How to Communicate Effectively with Students
Cultivating a classroom that values open communication is a key to impacting student success throughout their time in your course to the rest of their lives.
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Best Practices for Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses
Large lectures offer challenges that are different from smaller classes. Creating some changes and utilizing best practices can help make a large class feel smaller to foster learning for students.
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What Supporting Adult Learners Really Means
Adult learners are students who have obligations beyond the classroom and experience to support the new material they learn. Reaching them means instructors may have to adapt to new ways of teaching.
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New Instructors: Know the Basics Before You Teach
You've landed a position as faculty and now it's time to prepare for the first day of classes. Here are some things to know to help put your best foot forward.
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Control the Clock – 5 Time Management Tips for Instructors
Students and instructors always seem to be running against the clock. Fortunately, a few things can be done to make everyone's lives a little easier.
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Equity in Practice: Addressing the Diverse Needs of Our Students
It's vital to create an inclusive, safe and empowering classroom so students can learn from not only their instructor but each other as well.
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