Category: Guest Blog Posts
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – Comics in the Classroom
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Zack Kruse, Lecturer for Applied Writing and English Background Professor Kruse earned his undergraduate degree in 2004 and then worked in the comics industry for a decade. He went on to earn his PhD from Michigan State in English, focusing in visual media and American Cultural Studies. His dissertation was published by University Press in…
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Oral Exams as Alternative (and Authentic) Assessments
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Article by Amy J. & James E. Kabrhel, Ph.D., Associate Professors of Chemistry In the Summer of 2020 during the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, we learned that we would be allowed to come back to face-to-face instruction in Fall 2020 as long as we used methods allowing social distancing and flexibility for student attendance.…
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Implementing Negotiable Grading Schemes
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Article by Amy J. Kabrhel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry & 2022-23 Instructional Development Consultant For years I have seen students enter my courses on the first day of classes eager to engage with the course material who then slowly stop doing the homework but still perform well on the exams. I wondered if this…
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Revising—and Reframing—Your Teaching Philosophy
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Writing your teaching philosophy is not easy, but it is still an important practice both for potential career advancement and for self-reflection as educators. In this post, Tara DaPra, Assistant Teaching Professor and one of CATL’s 2022-23 Instructional Development Consultants, reflects on some ways to make writing a teaching philosophy a creative (and even fun)…
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College Student Mental Health: What Instructors Should Know
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Professor of Psychology Kris Vespia addresses the mental health crisis our students are facing and provides some context on how poor mental health can create barriers for students’ success. She then offers practical suggestions and resources instructors can use to better support their students in need, reminding instructors that they don’t need to be experts…