Volume XXXVI, No. 4 | February 7, 2014 Armored in the Student Role While in graduate school, a classmate of mine would continually ask the professor, “Will this be on the test?” and, “Do I need to know this?” At the time, I considered it a little rude, and perhaps a little [...]
Volume XXXVI, No. 3 | January 31, 2014 Students' Questions Open New Paths to Explore In "Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers," a course for pre-service teachers, I decided that the homework would always be the same. The students would ask three questions using the following format: "My question is…" and "I ask it [...]
Volume XXXVI, No. 2 | January 24, 2014 Eliminate the Need for Textbooks by Leveraging Professional Organizations Course materials must be updated continually in order for professional and technical programs to stay current with industry and to ensure students are graduating with the necessary skills. But, textbooks are a big expense for students, [...]
Volume XXXVI, No. 1 | January 17, 2014 Time for Fun and Games? My students are engaged in a heated argument about the words "therefore," "as a result," "so," and "thus." What do the words have in common? What question can they devise to explain their relationship? More significantly, why do these [...]
Volume XXXV, No. 29 | December 6, 2013 The Sandbox—Not Just an Instructional Materials Resource Center Background Lone Star College-CyFair opened its doors in 2003 as a one-campus/two-location concept. The idea was to have two locations—a bigger campus that the majority of the students would attend and a smaller location that would be easily accessible from [...]
Volume XXXV, No. 27 | November 15, 2013 A Community College and School District Special Education Partnership In spring 2012, Parkland Area School District (PASD) approached Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) about developing a learning support class on the LCCC campus to help the PASD special education students better transition into the community. [...]
Volume XXXV, No. 28 | November 22, 2013 Spirit Becomes Act: Creating Your Own Instructional Support System It was an unbelievable sight—325 students, faculty, and community members ready to reenact the Union army's 6th Corps march to Gettysburg. It wasn't money that enabled this moment. Neither was it a program, a pamphlet, a [...]
Volume XXXV, No. 26 | November 7, 2013 Forming a Psychology Club This article describes the groundwork, resourcing, implementation, and research topics of a new psychology club at El Centro College (ECC) and may serve as a template for others wishing to start a psychology club on their campuses. Determining the Best Approach [...]
Volume XXXV, No. 25 | November 1, 2013 Establishing a Campus-Based GED to College Transition Program The challenge of educating adults lacking a GED is daunting. Classes offered through literacy centers/community agencies tend to focus primarily on GED completion and not on helping adults make the transition to college. San Antonio College's GED [...]
Volume XXXV, No. 24 | October 25, 2013 Retention Issues in the Community College It seems that each time the spring semester rolls around, we have increased retention issues. As a result, retention efforts were the topic of a recent conversation in the Transitional English department. Much of the literature I have [...]