If you’re a teacher in elementary, middle, high school, or college, you may notice that the importance of certain classes often evolves with time. And while change is often important, we may not always be aware of the potentially negative consequences that follow. A few years ago, one of the schools I worked at was…
I went back to the classroom yesterday for the first time in a very very long time (for me, that means it’s been almost a year of fully online teaching). Oh, how I had missed every part of it. Printing out my class rosters, putting on actual clothes and makeup to leave the house, the…
During the past few weeks, I’ve been a student in an online faculty development course to prepare myself to teach an upcoming International Business Communication class. The course focuses on global learning, but much of the material discusses the basics that college instructors need to know (and potentially share with their students) about simplifying the…
Although Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) have been used in the classroom for decades, and I feel fairly well-versed in different teaching methods, I can honestly say this was a new one for me until I learned about it in a recent faculty development course. VTS tends to be used in more artistic or visually-reliant fields,…
I had an epiphany last week (ask anyone who knows me well, many of my sentences start with the phrase, “You know, I have this theory..”). So let me rephrase that, I have this theory that there are certain things that help us or hinder us when trying to get into ‘flow’ as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi…