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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Emotional Intelligence Can Create a Better Experience For Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emotional intelligence requires empathy, communication, and bravery to meet people where they are or acknowledge your own feelings. This is a powerful and priceless skill to bring to the classroom.
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What to Know Before You Start Teaching
There's a lot to consider when you're new to teaching at a college or university. Find a step-by-step guide on the key considerations to setting up your class.
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How to Help Students with Complicated Personal Situations
Life happens and sometimes students can't make it to class or run into an issue completing an assignment. Every instructor has to determine when to be flexible, and that can be tricky.
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The Value of Using Mid-Term Evaluations with Students
Mid-term evaluations with students is a helpful tool to monitor comprehension and uncover issues early to better meet the needs of the class.
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4 Strategies to Promote Diversity in the Classroom
Being mindful and respectful while fostering an environment that allows students to be themselves and speak freely requires thoughtful diversity inclusion.
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4 Ideas to Create a Balanced Classroom
Very strict classroom policies can lower morale and make students uncomfortable, while a laissez-faire attitude can create chaos. So how do you find a balance between these approaches?
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Do My Students Understand What I’m Saying?
Find tips and new ways to communicate with students to make sure everyone's on the same page and they're getting the most out of class.
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Creating Flexible and Workable Policies for the Classroom
Success looks different for everyone. Having flexible policies can bring out the best in students, and ease stress for instructors.
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Five Suggestions to Create an Effective Syllabus
Students often don't read the syllabus until they have a specific question. Consider these options to make your syllabus relevant and impactful so everyone is on the same page.
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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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