Volume XLVI, No. 17 | December 5, 2024 Is Your Classroom Woke? Since its inception, the term woke has grown from a 1930’s African American vernacular grounded in Feminist Ideology, to advertised presentations of power, resistance, solidarity, capitalism, privilege, and social justice. This growth has prompted the awareness of a need for [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 16 | November 14, 2024 Using Class Participation to Create Test Questions Introduction There is a sub-population of students who enter each freshman class with marginal qualifications. The following activities were developed to help this sub-group of students have a positive learning experience. The activities described include the use [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 15 | October 31, 2024 Promoting Diversity in STEM History: A Multicultural Perspective Introduction: What Does the Data Say? In the contemporary landscape of the STEM workforce, Hispanic, Asian, and Black workers represent 15%, 10%, and 9% respectively1. Conversely, American Indians and Alaska Natives collectively constitute less than 1% [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 14 | October 17, 2024 The Apposite Learning Model: Forging Students Into Skilled Professionals of the Future Acquiring or enhancing soft skills is an important part of the learning process. Examples of soft skills are interpersonal communication, time management, adaptability, problem solving. The importance of soft skills has been highlighted [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 13 | October 3, 2024 A Recipe for a Successful Collaboration: Coming Together, Staying Together, Working Together Introduction One approach to teaching complex concepts to students is to teach from multiple perspectives—i.e., integrative interprofessional teaching. Integrative interprofessional teaching is when two faculty, from two different schools, two different disciplines, [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 11 | September 5, 2024 Humanities and Pedagogy: Freud and Jung Using films to teach Freudian and Jungian psychology is a unique way to introduce psychoanalysis to students. Carl Jung's study of archetypes and the human psyche is a significant departure from Freudian perspectives. Both divergent viewpoints can allow [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 10 | August 22, 2024 Danke Schoen: Bringing It Everyday Danke Schoen! To those not familiar with Wayne Newton, which is probably a generation younger than those reading this piece, it is with reluctance that I say “Google” him. As a brief refresher, I offer this short synopsis of [...]
Volume XLV, No. 17 | November 16, 2023 Introducing ByFlex Course Design: A Bimodal Flexible Course Model Abstract Colleges and universities had to embrace online learning during COVID-19 in order to keep operations running and continue to serve students. With the restrictions placed on us all, on-campus attendance was not an option. [...]
Volume XLV, No. 16 | November 2, 2023 Improving Student Outcomes Through Collaborative Partnerships Faculty and staff at community and technical colleges demonstrate every day the ability to think with care and nuance about how to best support the students who walk through the doors of their institutions. Community and technical college [...]
Volume XLV, No. 15 | October 19, 2023 Creating an Equity-Minded Syllabus for a Post-Covid Classroom “Everyone smiles in the same language.” If you are anything like me, you smiled when you read the above quote. Aside from its effect of making people smile, I love this quote because it represents equality and [...]
