As we come around to the last set of midterms, I spend a lot of talking chatting with students about how they are studying. Although I feel like I’m modelling how to study while I teach and although I have
As we come around to the last set of midterms, I spend a lot of talking chatting with students about how they are studying. Although I feel like I’m modelling how to study while I teach and although I have
We are getting to the time of the year when our fourth year students are starting to panic. Life as an undergraduate is going to end soon and the questions of “what are you going to do when you are
How do you motivate in the classroom? While as a student, there were a number of tactics that were practiced by my educators. Some of these were motivating, and many were not (and probably weren’t intended to be motivating). As
I read a very interesting article from OUSA regarding the matter of University Professors lack of mandatory training in teaching. Why aren’t Professors at both Universities and Colleges not expected to also officially train in the area of teaching? I
In continuation of my previous post on teaching evaluations, I feel like it would be fun to post some of my most favourite/hilarious comments I have received from students over the last few years. It is true that my hands
Every year in all of the courses I teach, I am evaluated by my students. This is a time of extreme anxiety. When I first started teaching, I was on a one year contract. For the most part (although not