Volume XLIV, No. 17 | October 20, 2022 Mindfulness Meditation as a New Best Practice In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “reboot” is defined as “to shut down and restart.” For optimal functioning to occur, rebooting is important for humans and technology. As a meditation teacher and associate professor of education at a [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 16 | October 6, 2022 The Use of Crucial Conversations to Teach DEI in Today’s Classroom As educators, one of the challenges we face is how to make historic content relevant for today’s students and the current crucial conversations they engage in. When Chief Justice Earl Warren read [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 15 | September 22, 2022 The Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses: What Every Educator, Staff Member, and Administrator Should Know With the initial onset of psychological disorders occurring around 24 years of age on average, the mental health needs of students have always been a concern on [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 14 | September 8, 2022 On the Way to English Proficiency: Language Acquisition Through Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Practice Language acquisition necessitates active learning and student engagement. To emphasize this point, the learning theories on which language acquisition is anchored argue that learning a new language requires opportunities for [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 13 | August 25, 2022 Post-Covid Community College Online Instruction: Applying Lessons Learned The term “unprecedented” has been overused in the last year and a half. What was unprecedented is now precedented. Students, faculty, staff, parents, and administrators experienced a major disruption in all education sectors, and this [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 12 | June 23, 2022 Achieving the "Ah-Ha" Moments Thanks to Reflective Journaling Define the Issue As an instructor, I often struggle to know whether my students really understand the information I teach. I believe students should not only be given an opportunity to master the class, but [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 11 | June 9, 2022 Tech Tools to Support Student Learning Technology was already ubiquitous before the pandemic, but with the shift to online learning and the increased prevalence of online instruction going forward, technology should be embraced by instructors to better support student learning. Not all technological [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 10 | May 26, 2022 Our Students Are Geniuses: Helping Them Believe It, Too Two of the most important components of creating effective classrooms, whether online, hybrid, hyflex, or face-to-face, are connecting with students and providing opportunities for them to connect with the course content. My main goal [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 9 | May 12, 2022 D2L is Not Just for Teaching Course Content: Increasing Student Success Using Timberwolves Helpful Resources in the Virtual Environment (THRIVE) In response to the pandemic, our college shifted the modality of all its courses online. The transition to our new virtual environment posed [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 8 | April 28, 2022 “And Scene!” Using Best Practices From Institutional Assessment Processes to Enhance Virtual Learning Experiences In 2019, more than 170 faculty and staff gathered at a design thinking session at Tallahassee Community College (TCC) to answer the following question: How might TCC redesign its [...]