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 [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 7 | April 14, 2022 Incorporating DEI Into Visual Arts Arts and humanities textbooks contain beautiful images, but the art canon taught in community and technical colleges remains mostly Western. This poses a challenge to instructors who wish to teach courses from a non-Western or global perspective, and [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 6 | March 31, 2022 Viewing BIPOC Students as S.T.E.A.M. Professionals Introduction: An Afterthought When I share my childhood with others, they often cannot believe that I worked as a civil and mechanical engineer for seven years and went on to become an educator. During my K-12 education, [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 5 | March 17, 2022 Process of Collaborative Course Design Harford Community College (HCC) uses collaborative course design (CCD) for all online physical education (PE) courses. CCD is the shared creation of course content that applies the expertise of multiple faculty members to meet academic rigor and support [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 4 | March 3, 2022 Midsemester Evaluations of Teaching: Strengthening Faculty Development in Rapidly Changing Times Student evaluations are used at many higher education institutions to assess faculty performance and encourage self-reflection and improvement over time. However, because these evaluations typically come at the end of the semester, [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 3 | February 17, 2022 Teaching Argumentative Writing in the Age of Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces In 2016, an opinion article in The New York Times entitled “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Free Speech, Too,” was written by Sophie Downes, a then-college student at the University of [...]
