…have confronted multiple examples of student work, and we know what effort looks like. It’s an essay or set of discussion board comments in which the student engages with the…
…it interferes with things like sleep and real-world interaction. Some of the responses from my students were exactly what I expected: passionate defenses of their right and desire to embrace…
A common rhetorical move we professors make when students object to a grade is to reframe the discussion. We’ll say, “Let’s be clear. I didn’t give you this grade. You…
…learning-disabled extra time to process what they know. My reading speed will always be slow. But having extra time gives me the chance to compete with others. Extra time is…
…disconnected from content they once loved and students who, now more than ever, need teachers committed to learning. The question about them, which is really about us, is how long…
…schedule that she diligently followed throughout the semester. It didn’t make sense to Rose to repeat that information again in modules. When I suggested that school must have come easily…
…we are discussing. Although instructor-provided examples and explanations are important, I teach my students that it is more important that they come up with their own examples and cues. Research…
…search proved more than 20 percent of his paper was copied, he explained it as a computer error—he’d accidentally dropped the footnote when cutting and pasting. I lowered his course…
