Community College Teaching

The Best Teaching Advice I Have Received | Faculty Focus Throughout my teaching career, I have asked numerous mentors for their advice regarding excellent teaching. Here is a sampling.

Five Reasons to Stop Giving Exams in Class | Faculty Focus We wish to address the limitations of giving exams and offer five reasons to consider to stop giving exams in class.

Three Recommendations to Increase Equitable Learning Environments | Faculty Focus Three recommendations for those who strive to increase equitable learning environments based on a survey and focus group findings.

Emotion Science: Increasing Student Engagement and Success Online Learn how to use emotion science to increase student engagement, persistence, and success online in this online seminar from Magna.

Reclaiming the Joy of Teaching | Faculty Focus We invite you to join us in taking the first steps towards renewing the joy in teaching, even if joy seems a long way off.

Connecting Before We Can Physically Connect: Online Icebreakers to Use for the First Day of Class | Faculty Focus The following offers online icebreaker ideas for the first day of class which can help demonstrate inclusiveness and engagement.

15 Ways to Engage Your Students In-person, Online, and in Zoom | Faculty Focus Fifteen strategies to use for in-person, Zoom, or online course delivery to engage your students.

Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators | Faculty Focus The action of shifting college students from consumers to creators of Open Educational Resources can have positive impacts on student learning.

The Clock Strikes at Midnight: An Argument Against the “Pumpkin Rule” | Faculty Focus Beginning in the spring of 2020, I started using a new method of flexible deadlines: The Date To Keep on Track (DTKOT).

Becoming Critical Readers of Nonfiction: Preservice Teachers Explore Orbis Pictus Texts | Faculty Focus Placing critical literacy curriculum in the hands of teachers is the first step to enriching the educational experience for their students.

Faculty Focus Live Podcast Where we bring instructors and teachers inspiration, energy, and creative strategies that they can utilize in their everyday teaching.

Awakening to All Aspects of Teaching | Faculty Focus We need to touch the soul of teaching more often, and the poem “Awakening” explains how.