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What My Mother's Beanie Babies Taught Me about Teaching |
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Nichole DeWall
When the author’s mother, a grade school music teacher, passed away, many of her former students arrived at the funeral carrying Beanie Babies she had gifted them—tokens of encouragement, not collectibles. Here are some lessons from their stories. Read More |
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Mindith R. Rahmat
For many of us, traditional grading systems, with their reliance on letter grades, have been the cornerstone of assessment for as long as we can remember. Yet the more we engage with our students, the more these methods show their limitations, particularly for fostering deep learning and ensuring equitable outcomes. This is where narrative evaluations come in. Read More |
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Elizabeth Falzone and Caitlin Riegel
Students generally come into an online class from a background of face-to-face education, and this background often creates expectations that cause students problems in an online class. A virtual learning contract addresses this problem by laying out course expectations and committing students to follow them.
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The Teaching Professor welcomes submissions on a variety of teaching and learning topics. These can take a diversity of forms—for example, pragmatic, advice-driven articles; opinion pieces; thoughtful personal narratives; and essays that explore controversial issues or raise questions about current practices. See our submission guidelines for details. |
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Maryellen Weimer
Student feedback literacy originally meant a student’s ability to read, interpret, and use written feedback. Here, our editor emerita discusses an article that expands that definition and lays out four features student feedback literacy: appreciating feedback, making judgments, managing affect, and taking action. Read More |
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