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Start with the STUDENTS rather than the discipline

Start with the students rather than the discipline: this is the 3rd principle from Ken Bain’s book, “What the Best College Teachers Do” (pp. 110-112): …the best teachers start with something that, as...

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What Do Old Polar Bears and Great Teachers Have in Common? They Know How to Break the Ice!

Class Ice Breakers Polar bears break the ice to survive. Teachers break the ice to thrive. Join this interactive, high-energy webinar and explore ways to use icebreakers and topic starters to socialize,...

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Where To Find Images You Can Use In Your Teaching

Many faculty like to use photos in their presentations, but finding images that are open to the public is difficult and of course we want to model to our students the ethical...

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Why Don’t People Respond to Your Emails?

Students know how it feels: you spend hours crafting the perfect email—and then nothing. You refresh and refresh, check on your phone, laptop, and desktop. We know how it feels. Here are three...

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Using Transitions for Paragraph Cohesion

Good paragraphs are built by using transitional expressions to glue ideas together, creating a logical and cohesive whole. Skilled writers use several techniques to make paragraphs stick together. One such technique is...

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Helping Students Get It: Cheating Hurts Them

Unfortunately, cheating is alive and well in the college classroom, and it’s a disheartening reality for instructors. After all, cheating flies in the face of the knowledge and values college teachers want...

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Number Style: Word or Figure?

Whether to use words or figures to express numbers is governed by convention. That is, we follow customary techniques or rules. Frequently Used Number Rules General rules. Use words for numbers one through ten. (We have ten computers and three printers....

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Do Women Overuse Exclamation Points?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThey sure do! But a Wall Street Journal article (She’s Not Mad. She’s Just Not Using Exclamation Points) says women are expected to use more exclamation points, and they face a...

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