Preparing and planning a new course can be overwhelming, stressful, and sometimes even intimidating. This is true for veteran instructors, but even more so for new or first-year instructors (part-time and full-time faculty). I’ve been…
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HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY TEACHER TIPS PART TWO
Being an adjunct or part-time instructor is hard. But being a first-year adjunct (during a pandemic, nonetheless!) is a whole other level of hard. Teacher burnout is a real thing and having been a new…
HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY TEACHER TIPS PART ONE
Being an adjunct or part-time instructor is hard. But being a first-year adjunct (during a pandemic, nonetheless!) is a whole other level of hard. Teacher burnout is a real thing and having been a new…
How to Get Your Students to Remember More of What They Learn
THIS WEEK I HAVE A GUEST BLOGGER! I HOPE YOU FIND THIS BLOG POST AS INTERESTING AS I DO! As teachers, we are in the business of making memories. We need our students to remember…
Liberal Arts are Essential.
I am so glad you are here! If you haven’t discovered by now, I am deeply passionate about teaching and helping teachers like you to excite and encourage your students in thinking critically about the…
Liberal is not a dirty word.
The Liberal Arts are for people who can’t hack it in the real world. The Liberal Arts are all about touchy-feely things like emotions and feelings. I already took Literature in high school, why would…
Banned books
Banned Books Week is here! The week of September 27-October 3, teachers and librarians from all over will be celebrating the literature that has the power and potential to challenge and shape the perspective of…
How to Teach Self-Awareness
Know Thyself and Know How to Teach It What does it mean to know oneself? How does one become self-aware? Furthermore, how do you teach it? The search for who we are and what makes…
Hey, Doodle, Doodle, Let’s Review: The Hate U Give
Hey, Doodle, Doodle, Let’s Review: The Hate U Give If you’re an educator, you almost certainly have utilized Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning in your pedagogy. As such, you may at times, like…