The end of the semester is rarely pretty. You’re tired. I’m tired. We both have too much to do, and you’re feeling the pressure to perform well on finals.
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Read More »First and last classes are the bookends that hold a semester together. How can we finish the semester with the same energy we had at the start? A few ideas: Source: www.facultyfocus.com At the beginning of the academic year we talked about how to make the first class have meaning. Here is an article that […]
Read More »Am I alone in this kind of mental ritual? Or do all of us regularly forget what we’ve heard, read, or learned … in this case, about teaching and learning? Source: www.facultyfocus.com I fall into the trap that Dr. Weimer mentions. I take notes at conference sessions, loving the ideas that I have heard. I […]
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