It’s been a privilege to teach over some two decades, and during that time, I’ve found a series of techniques that were successful in the
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Thomas Pfaff, PhD, is a professor of mathematics at Ithaca College. Pfaff’s primary scholarly work includes incorporating sustainability ideas into mathematics courses, where he maintains
Unexpected circumstances can strike at any time, taking faculty away from their teaching duties before the end of a semester. Often, other faculty to have
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Have you considered adding five-minute student interviews to your teaching tool kit? Before you calculate how long it would take to interview all of your
The purpose of this article is to present an overview of why annotated bibliographies are needed in higher education, especially in doctoral education programs. The
October 21, 2019, was a golden day for those interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Somehow, across a variety of teaching and
Decades ago, a new employee was hired to paint stripes on the side and middle of a road. This was before automated machines, and thus
