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Activities for Developing a Positive Classroom Climate
Positive classroom climate can encourage students to participate, think deeply about content, and engage peers in intellectual debate. Creating a classroom climate conducive to that type of expression...
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Creating a Climate for Learning: A Survey for Students and Teachers
How well a class functions is the result of both what the teacher does and what the students do. The way we solicit course evaluation feedback reinforces students’ tendency to see the teacher as the...
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Learning the Lessons of Silence
“The lessons of silence.” I found these four words in Lao Zi’s book, the Tao Te Ching. I have been ruminating over them lately. In our modern society, more and more individuals fear stillness. In our...
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Civility is Needed in the College Classroom—Now More than Ever
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their...
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Improving Student Evaluations with Integrity
Oh, how the tables do turn! Each semester, after quizzing, testing, and otherwise grading our students, they get to return the favor and rate their professors, and some of them can be harsher than we...
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Reflections on Teacher Power in the Contemporary Classroom
Teacher power has to do with the ability to influence student behaviors and, ultimately, what they learn and how much. My colleagues and I often lament that it is more difficult to influence student...
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10 Effective Ways to Connect with College Students in Large Classes
Research indicates that students learn more and rate their class experience higher when they have a personal connection with the instructor. Here are ten practical ways to help that happen: Arrive...
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How to Include Introverts in Class Discussion
Would you prefer to go to a party with 50 exciting, brand-new people that you’ve never met before, or would you prefer to have dinner with an old, dear friend? You’ve probably guessed already that...
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A University Professor Teaches in the K-12 Classroom
During my recent sabbatical, I had the unique opportunity to teach full-day sessions for 14 weeks in two different K-12 settings. Here’s how that happened. I decided to propose this unique sabbatical...
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Earning Students’ Trust in Your Teaching
A month into last fall’s first-year writing course, one of my students emailed me and politely explained that he found one of the reading assignments offensive. We met in person to discuss his...
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