Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Jewrell Rivers is a professor of Sociology, Marriage and Family and Criminal Justice at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Traditionally, educators have focused on being more effective in the use of instructional pedagogy to improve student learning outcomes. As a result, the social and affective aspects of the classroom, including the student-teacher relationship, have […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Sally Stewart, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Teaching at UBC Okanagan, School of Health and Exercise Sciences For most of us, the busy teaching part of the academic year might be done and the summer brings some lightness to our work and spirit. We might be feeling a bit “burnt out” and […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesPost was updated 5/22/2025 Over the years we have seen more and more Mac users in our classes. As long as they followed along in our computer labs or on their own Windows PC, they were fine. But many of them struggled when they got home and began using their own Mac computers. For this […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnitre Bell is a College Success Facilitator and Instructor at Community College of Beaver County. On June 16, 2021, President Joe Biden deemed Juneteenth a federal holiday, which was a monumental day in history. June 19, 1865, also known as Juneteenth in the African American community, is a day of celebration. This marks the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnitre Bell is a College Success Facilitator and Instructor at the Community College of Beaver County Pride Month is officially here. We’ll see stores celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community through merchandise and apparel, brands changing their company logo on social media and campuses across the nation showcasing their school’s celebration of Pride Month. But, while […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn academia, we often encourage our students to make time to relax, but are we listening to our own advice? Teaching is a wonderful and rewarding path, but it also comes with a lot of work. That being said, it is important to take time to relax between semesters. I want to share my four […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesChloe Adamowicz is a Marketing major with an Economics minor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Back on March 15, 2020, a wave of excitement spread across the country: Two whole weeks off from school. What a dream…or so we thought. Our dream soon turned into a nightmare. Two weeks soon turned into two […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlake Fetty is a lecturer of Spanish at the University of Central Oklahoma Research on testing anxiety shows a clear correlation between test-taking anxiety and lower test scores. In some classes, this anxiety is more apparent than others. As a Spanish teacher, my students’ anxiety is never more visible than right before a speaking […]
