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Faculty Development

  1. How Innovation-Based Learning (IBL) Is Helping More Students Become Career-Ready

    Joe Sanchez has developed a new model proven to increase course pass rates while preparing students for the world of work

  2. Why It’s Time to Reframe Your Approach Towards Student Feedback

    Feedback has traditionally been backwards-looking. The feedforward framework is a more authentic, tailored alternative.

  3. The Ultimate Guide to Culturally Responsive Teaching

    Creating a culturally responsive classroom will help diverse students feel seen in your college courses

  4. 3 Ways to Balance Your Workload With Student Needs

    Innovative educators share their advice for putting student success at the forefront—without risking burnout

  5. 3 Ways to Maintain Work-Life Balance in the New Teaching Paradigm

    Productivity shouldn’t be the sole end goal for faculty members. Avoid burnout by balancing your teaching schedule, finding time-saving tools and prioritizing your mental wellbeing.

  6. How to Deal With The Mid-Semester Crunch

    As midterm exams and assignments to grade pile up, one professor shares their tips for handling one of the busiest times of the year

  7. Five Resolutions for a New Term (or Year, or Decade!)

    One professor discusses embracing technology, guest speakers and active learning in her New Years' resolutions for 2020

  8. How To Incorporate Midterm Course Evaluations

    Students may be busy preparing for midterms, but this time of year is also an opportunity to take a pause by carrying out a midterm course evaluation. This isn’t a form of busywork: rather, it’s a way to find out what’s working—and what isn’t—before you reach the end of the semester (and before it’s too […]

  9. In Lieu Of Textbooks, What Are Students Reading?

    Students are increasingly strategic when it comes to utilizing textbooks—and it’s up to professors to find solutions that ensure engagement

  10. 8 Reasons You Should Author Your Own Textbook

    When does it make sense to create a new textbook from scratch? Here, we look at some reasons you might author your own book

  11. 4 Ways Introverted Professors Can Succeed in the Classroom

    Getting outside your comfort zone and embracing your in-class personality are just a few of the ways introverted professors can face the challenges of a big group lecture

  12. What You Need to Know About Millennial Faculty

    For Boomer and Gen X academics, here are five traits—including being teamwork-focused and boasting a reward-seeking mentality—your millennial coworkers may possess

  13. 4 Professors Share Their Work Burnout Stories

    Most faculty aren’t doing what they do for the money: it’s a vocation. But when you do what you love—and in particular for adjuncts, for little stability or monetary reward—it’s extremely easy to get overwhelmed and burn out. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and one of the major focuses in 2019 from organizers Mental […]

  14. Work-Life Balance: A Guide for Professors

    Postsecondary educators, who often view their work as a vocation, are experiencing previously unseen levels of occupational stress. This guide will help you reach something more than work-life balance: a healthy integration of your career and your life

  15. 5 Professors Share Their Experiences of Imposter Syndrome

    Who do you think you are? What are you playing at? Sooner or later, somebody is going to find you out… Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Imposter syndrome—being continually plagued with the feeling that you’re not qualified—is endemic within academia. Although it happens to most academics, it’s particularly prevalent and toxic among those who identify […]

  16. Course Evaluation: What’s Wrong and How to Fix it

    Course evaluation often elicits groans from students — and can cause stress for instructors. There’s even an article1 in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Everyone Hates Course Evaluations.” But there are good reasons for doing evaluations as part of the teaching and learning process — and there are ways to make it easier and […]

  17. How To Become a Tenure Track Professor

    Looking to get on the tenure track? Here's what you need to plan for, and how to get there

  18. How to Write a Philosophy of Teaching Statement

    5 easy steps on how to write an authentic and effective philosophy of teaching statement to help your job application get noticed.

  19. Student Evaluations: Problems and Possible Solutions

    End of semester student evaluations are unreliable, biased and usually incomplete. Is there still a place for them?

  20. Course Design For Agile Teaching: 5 Ideas To Try

    Rote learning has become passé. So has passive teaching. These days, top educators are thinking about being agile and engaging, and that comes from first principles: your course design. In the same way software developers create agile software — in which they keep trying new things and improving, and mistakes are part of the journey […]