Home » Teaching
Category Archives: Teaching
“Professor, why didn’t I get an A?”: Creating a Transparent and Simplified Grading System
How many emails do you get from students asking why they received a particular grade? Let’s face it, grading is probably the most stressful and least enjoyable aspect of our teaching lives. That’s even before being inundated with calls for “ungrading” and other strategies which you might not be ready to try or you’re not […]
Dear Students, Here are some tips for getting your #%@ together this semester…
Every semester, I want to be more organized. Even after 20 years of teaching, every semester I need make tweaks to my system, learning from what worked and didn’t work. Inevitably, I can always do better. A lot of students visit me during office hours and tell me how “together” they think I am. (Full […]
Where is the Ivory Tower?
Not too long ago, I used the phrase “Ivory Tower” when discussing higher education in my intro to sociology class. My students looked very confused, even more so than usual. Will this be on the exam? Does this have anything to do with elephants? I don’t know how many 19 year olds know this expression […]
Recent Comments