Teaching methods

Earlier this year, I had the good fortune to speak at a teaching conference hosted by Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. My favorite presenter at that conference was a sociology professor named Rosemary McGunnigle-Gonzales. Not only did ...

My friend George Couros once said, “If students leave school less curious than when they have started, we have failed them.” I tend to agree. I’ve never heard of a cosmologist who says, “I’m done

Group work has many benefits to students and student learning, but it also has its challenges. Most common problems can be avoided if you put in the effort and take the time to plan carefully. One of the early steps to take into consideration as you prepare is how to form groups. There are many decisions to make, and the ... Read More

Ted Lasso, a lighthearted, quirky comedy, became the basis for the four critical lessons I learned while teaching through the pandemic.

It continues to be time for mid-year “Best” lists. You can see all my previous Online Learning Games “Best” lists (and there are a lot since I’ve doing this since 2007) here. Note that they’…

Nurture your team to high performance with Tuckman’s Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning (Mourning) model.

Break up your lecture with one of these activities to help students prepare for group work.

Cate Denial shares about her book A Pedagogy of Kindness on episode 467 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

I challenge my students to think critically about what we are learning and to reflect on the connection between the content and their values and goals.

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Designing a strategy to group students reduces much of the stress in class students face when asked to “pair up” or “form a group.”

Use it the classroom by adding pictures of women in science, presidents, country flags, or any other set of images related to what your students are learning.

Last Friday morning I received an email from a company that was touting the greatness of their new AI-powered mind map creation tool. My response was, “that’s not mind mapping.” I did try the compa…

Multiple-choice questions have a range of benefits, but also some limitations - it is not the perfect classroom strategy.

Taking the wrong actions can create more harm than good.

Todd Zakrajsek on episode 455 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our ...

Liz Norell shares about finding joy and curiosity in the questions on episode 453 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Group work as a pedagogy has a host of benefits. From a cognitive perspective, the interaction with and evaluation of others’ ideas can help confirm or refine (assimilate) what is understood, chang…

The idea that the space in which you do something, affects the thing you do is the basic premise behind active learning classrooms (ALCs). These are classroom spaces with features meant to promote and amplify the effects of active learning, including moveable furniture that can be reconfigured easily and a

In my first year of teaching, my mentor said something I'll never forget. I taught a lesson that tanked. It was awful. I literally did everything wrong. It was the cringiest of cringe and I

Wouldn't it be interesting to see an analysis of how much time you spent on active learning, right after class ended? DART is a tool created by a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional team of education researchers. DART stands for Decibel Anal...

When we understand the different ways of priming and how they work, we can better identify opportunities for incorporating priming into our courses.