Rule #1: LEARN THE NAMES
Whenever I get the chance to talk about teaching, especially what I consider the most important thing, I have a quick answer…Learn the students’ names! I cannot think of a single thing that will make...
View ArticleTeachers Watch TV, Too!
Quite often our students seem to forget that we who are the faculty are also real people. Sad to say, I’ve seen some faculty who don’t do much to fight this belief. While one of the things that makes...
View ArticleCar Chalk
Students need to see the material they are learning in class in a way that they see the usefulness of learning it. With technological advances that we have, there is so much that is competing with our...
View ArticleMath Anxiety: Treating the Pain
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (Photo credit: Wikipedia) or “MEEP MEEP! Using the Roadrunner to distract students from the “painful” math.” I was recently given an article to read which talks about...
View ArticleA Little Christmas (or Xmas?) Pleasure
English: Christmas postcard picture with Santa Claus and holly, with message, “I bring you a Merry Xmas from” (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As the Christmas season rolls in, so does the inevitable debate...
View ArticleHANGMAN – When they won’t participate
English: Hangman – Step 12 Català: Penjat – Pas 12 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the more interesting moments in a class is when you ask the students to participate in the discussion by asking them...
View ArticleTeaching Math or Teaching Quantitative Literacy….and What About Calculators?
A couple semesters ago, I had an incident in my developmental math class that has transformed my philosophy on education. Let’s set the stage: Casio fx-991ES Calculator (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This...
View ArticleEmbrace the Absurd
I was teaching my Business Calculus class the other night and we were talking about speeds of projectiles (objects flying through the air). I was planning to do a problem about something dropping from...
View ArticleClasshack: Sporcle
I have found the following website, sporcle.com, which I have gotten a great deal of use out of. I initially found it as a nice way to challenge my own brain and take some quizzes over topics I liked....
View ArticleBragging Time!
Students work hard. When they work hard and get the results they are looking for (or better), they usually find their own way to celebrate. I’ve had student let out a big “whoop” in class when they see...
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