The First Days of Class: Building Authenticity and Community
Regardless of whether you’ve been teaching for 15 years or 15 minutes, how to act and what to do on the first day of class
Regardless of whether you’ve been teaching for 15 years or 15 minutes, how to act and what to do on the first day of class
The Focus is You will now occur just once a month. We have other exciting things to share with you on Thursdays, like our new,
A bunch of guys had a late afternoon game of touch football in a field. As it started getting dark and the players moved toward
In the face-to-face classroom, each faculty member typically designs and teaches their own course with minimal input from departmental colleagues. Reflective of this approach, many
One of the most intriguing, and perhaps intimidating, aspects of walking into a class for the first time and introducing yourself is deciding who you
There’s no discounting the importance of the first day of class. What happens that day sets the tone for the rest of the course. Outlined
A very short trip to a time long ago J. R. R. Tolkien’s famous 1937 fantasy book, The Hobbit, introduces among its heroes a fierce
As faculty, we want our students to achieve, but more than that we want our students to see, at least in some way, that what
To: My Students From: Your Teacher Re: What’s happening in college—is it real? I just read about a senior engineering student who was presenting a
This week on The Focus is You, we’re getting to know Angela Britcher who works in instructional design, faculty training, and content writing. We’ve catered
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