Happy holidays from the Teaching Professor! To celebrate the end of our first full year as an online newsletter, this week we are highlighting five of our most popular articles of the past year.

“I Don’t Understand What You Want in This Assignment”

By Maryellen Weimer, PhD, and Gary R. Hafer, PhD

By specifying context, professors can make their intentions clear and therefore help their students understand what's needed in an assignment. Read More

My Worst Student Ratings Ever

By Neil Haave, PhD

When the author flipped his classroom, student learning and engagement improved. His course evaluations, however, did not. Read More

Interactive Lecturing: A Pedagogy of Engagement That Works

By Claire Howell Major, PhD

Interactive lecturing is a model for combining engaging presentations and active learning techniques to engage students and improve their learning. Read More

Knowing vs. Understanding: A Short Exercise to Highlight the Difference

By Pete Burkholder, PhD

The exercise is a wake-up call to students. It tells students, “This class will be different. It will require you to think in different ways and move beyond memorization.” Read More

Lectures and Prior Knowledge: Helping Students Make Sense of New Material

By Maryellen Weimer, PhD

We need to move past the lecture versus active learning debate. A teacher-ready research review by William Cerbin offers a path to more productive thinking about both. Read More

Learning to Teach: Are We More Like Our Students Than We Think?

By Amy B. Mulnix, PhD

Once the author realized how she approached learning about teaching looked an awful lot like how her students did, she began to see even more similarities.
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