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Teaching Strategies

Find teaching inspiration and practical methods to keep your students engaged and learning.

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Adjusting the Lens: Active Learning in Online Classes

Author: Shawn Orr, Director of the Center for Innovation & Teaching Excellence; Faculty in Communication Studies, Ashland University As a college faculty member for more than 25 years, I’ve taught thousands of...
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10 Tips for Teaching Online: Practical Advice from Instructors

No matter how long you’ve been standing in front of a classroom, teaching online can be a daunting task. Online classes can feel quite different from in-person classes, and you may not...
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Professors and Partisanship in Intro to American Politics

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University This past spring, I opened my Introduction to American Politics asking my students to come to the first day having read the syllabus and Dr. Seth...
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Introduction to American (Local) Politics

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University In an introductory American Politics class, it can often be difficult to try to fit in local politics, and often times, most textbooks and classes are...
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Learning From and About the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University HBO’s Watchmen (a retelling of a 1986 DC Comics series, if you don’t know) might be a surreal and alternative history, but as Matt Miller in...
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Political Science Students: Questions To Think About

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthor: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University Politico  asked some of the top historians to write a paragraph from the future, describing the contemporary moment in time. In their descriptions of the past...
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Assessing Students in Introduction to American Politics

Author: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University As we approach the end of the fall and start thinking about our Spring classes, I’m thinking about my two sections of Introduction to American Politics...
Sharing Political Science Teaching Resources

Sharing Political Science Teaching Resources

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthor: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University I am a syllabus and teaching resources hoarder. If you open my Dropbox folder system, you’ll see way too many documents of syllabi and teaching...
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