Beyond the Icebreaker: Building Community in the Classroom
By Kristin Flora I’ve been fortunate to have that seemingly ‘magical’ class. You know the one—small, seminar-style setup with students actively engaged in asking deep,
By Kristin Flora I’ve been fortunate to have that seemingly ‘magical’ class. You know the one—small, seminar-style setup with students actively engaged in asking deep,
By Caleb Fowler, Folsom Lake College professor of computer information science I was one of the original guinea pigs of the first 50, and now
By Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy A few years ago, we were tasked with an exciting, yet daunting, task: think boldly about the general education
By Mark Paternostro Lecture déjà vu. I walked into a classroom in late September and realized I’ve given the same lecture, almost on the same
Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes is nationally recognized as the founder of the Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Project (TILT Higher Ed), which she
By Harry Brighouse I often start my smaller classes with an icebreaker, mainly so the students start to learn each other’s names and are more
By Traci Brimhall I have been using a Jeopardy-style review game for midterms almost as long as I’ve been teaching. Those review days always go
By Harry Brighouse Derek Bok’s great book Our Underachieving Colleges contains a passage that, ultimately, transformed my teaching. Teaching by discussion can also seem forbidding
Faculty are central to implementing ELOs, HIPs, and VALUE rubrics. What roles, supports, incentives, and change processes are necessary to ensure that faculty can create
As you may have seen in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, we recently launched a major collaboration with The Career Leadership Collective to further advance