Faculty Development
How Faculty Can Apply a Growth Mindset To Their Teaching
Video: Cal Poly’s Laura Freberg on the value of constantly looking for opportunities to learn and grow
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Faculty Development
Why It’s Important to Approach Teaching With a Growth Mindset
If you want to become a better educator, the first step is to embrace a growth mindset. We expect it of our students, so we should expect it…
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Engage 2018: What to do in Chicago
For attendees at Engage 2018, Top Hat’s Conference for Higher Education Innovators, Chicago made for a great city to explore. Here…
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Why Academic Careers Shine Outside of the Meeting Room
Professors most readily learn from each other and by attending off-site conferences, while deeply distrusting departmental meetings,…
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3 Things We Learned About OER Adoption From C. Edward Watson
C. Edward Watson is Associate VP at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Formerly director of the Center for Teaching and…
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Beyond the Workshop: How Admin Can Help Faculty Teach
For Centers of Teaching and Learning (CTLs), getting faculty to even show up at a teaching workshop is a victory. But there are still…
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11 Teaching Quotes to Inspire Educators in 2018
From Comenius to Montessori, here are some teaching quotes for the modern educator—all about letting your students challenge their…
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What Happens in a Top Hat Certification Class
If you’re just getting started with Top Hat and wondering how to use it to its full potential, help is at hand. At Top Hat, we run regular…
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4 Course Administration Tips to Help You Plan Ahead
There are many responsibilities faculty juggle, but the invisible work of course administration probably ranks both among the most…
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How to Improve Teaching When Professor Training Doesn’t Exist
In his book Campus Confidential, author and professor Jacques Berlinerblau sounds the alarm over college professor training. Teachers, he…
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Managing Teacher Workload: How Agile and Scrum Can Help
Rebecca Pope-Ruark is an associate professor of English at Elon University and the author of the new book Agile Faculty: Practical…
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Passive Learning is a Problem For Fun Professors: Jacques Berlinerblau
Professor Jacques Berlinerblau—who shared his insights about the problems with higher education in a Top Hat webinar—takes passive…
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What is An Adjunct Professor? How To Solve Career Isolation
What is an adjunct professor? An adjunct professor, a term most often used in the U.S., is a temporary, part-time appointment brought in by…
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Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery: What Faculty Should Do
In late August and early September, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma wreaked havoc not only on homes and businesses, but on post-secondary…
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Lecturer Career Ideas: 4 Ways To Get Ahead
If you’re a lecturer waiting for your administration to send you on a training course, you could be waiting a long time. Taking the first…
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Steven Sloman Challenges Everything You Know
People are more ignorant than they think they are. That’s the premise of Steven Sloman’s new book, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never…
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Engage 2017: The Conference for Higher Education Innovators – Day One Highlights
With Engage 2017: The Conference for Higher Education Innovators fast approaching, we wanted to highlight a few of the speakers and talks…
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Engage 2017: Top Hat Conference Breaks New Ground for Educators
Chicago is the scene for the first Top Hat Engage 2017 conference, where some of the greatest minds in innovative education will meet and…
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Ideas for Achieving Academic Work Life Balance
Most faculty aren’t doing what they do for the money. But how can you achieve academic work life balance and avoid burdening yourself and…
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The 3 Career Stages of Academic Stress
In researching her book Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance: The Path Toward Family Friendly Institutions, Virginia Commonwealth…