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Note to readers: After this week, The Teaching Professor will go break until the New Year. We will resume regular publication on Monday, January 6. In the interim, look out for update emails highlighting our favorite articles of 2024. |
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Cognitive Biases That Undermine Teaching |
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Stephen L. Chew
Attributional biases, as well as other kinds of cognitive biases, can undermine our teaching effectiveness and our relationships with students. Here are a few that are particularly relevant to teaching. Read More |
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Mays Imad
When a campus community experiences loss—of a student, a teacher, or an advisor, for instance—sometimes the most important thing faculty can do is to be present for their students, to create space to honor the messiness of the human experience. Read More |
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Rebecca A. Glazier
Imagine a discussion that students actually want to participate in—or even one that you as the professor might look forward to joining. Such online discussions are possible. If we think carefully about the goals of our online discussions and design them with intention, we can create a discussion experience that is mutually beneficial. Read More |
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John Orlando
Instructors generally use exit tickets to assess learning at the end of a class and determine which topics they need to return to in the next session. But these can take a variety of forms that serve different ends. Here are a few. Read More |
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Jaime O’Connor
This reflection considers how to bring a course to a meaningful end that acknowledges both the challenges students will have faced and the growth they will have experienced. Read More |
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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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