Student Course Evaluation questionnaires are a necessary evil for most college professors.
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Reflections now that the dust has settled
A long summer- time to rejuvenate. Time to forget?
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Before You Shelve Your Class Notes
Here we are again, fellow teacher!
If you are like me, you are trudging through a stack or two of final grading and just beginning to calculate (and stress over) final course grades. The summer beckons!
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Do we need to be experts to be good teachers?
I recently read an interesting blog post about the characteristics of a good teacher. In it, the author describes good teachers as being confident experts in the classroom. Teachers do make a difference in student learning- take a look at how teachers affect learning the tango:
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Can we teach cognitive flexibility?
For the past three weeks, my class and I have been reading experimental neuroscience articles about stress and physiological stress responses. The message coming through these articles is that a stress response occurs when an organism perceives an event as a threat to homeostasis of some sort. The response functions to “restore” homeostatic balance.