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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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My Australian shepherds star in many of my videos, and students are amused to learn that my ringtone is the theme from “Legend of Zelda.” Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments.

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What If Students Are the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?

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For Pickett, it is a struggle to implement new digital learning styles with adult students as many of them are accustomed to traditional lecture models and are dismayed when they don't get what they expect. These critiques can discourage other students from taking the course or cost lectures their contract renewals.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

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As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I set a before-action directive in my international business for students to engage in a virtual consulting-based learning.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Adjuncts’ current worries aren’t limited to professional matters, of course.