Volume XLIII, No. 26 | September 9, 2021 Ready, Click, Play! Using Split Screens, Annotations, and Fun Games During Remote Learning Sessions “On your marks, get set, go!” This phrase is often heard at the beginning of track races, but not during the middle of a semester. But March 2020 reset [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 25 | August 26, 2021 It’s No Secret – Students are Stumped. Planting the Seeds for College Readiness Research indicates that college readiness is a nationwide concern for community colleges. At Pasco-Hernando Community College (PHSC), we are aware that many of our students enter the classroom without the [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 24 | July 1, 2021 Emotionally Intelligent Teaching to Empower and Engage: Insights From Neuroscience The following article on emotionally intelligent teaching stems from the happy wedding of my 40 years of teaching and leading experience with current research on motivation, learning, and empowerment. My teaching and leadership [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 23 | June 24, 2021 A Plan, A Partner, and the Payoff: Preparing Process Technology Students for the Workforce Part of our role as educators is to help students find employment in their field of study. Often, instructors strive to share as much technical content during their course [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 22 | June 17, 2021 Acknowledging Student Identities and Addressing Biases to Implement Culturally Responsive Teaching It is the educator’s responsibility to make students feel included in the classroom. One way to do this is by addressing students’ unique identities. Personal experiences and social-cultural experiences shape identities. Personal [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 21 | June 10, 2021 Office Hours and Early Alerts: Oh My! Like Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (RCCC), many community colleges are pioneers for new initiatives. Often and rightfully so, those initiatives revolve around student success by providing just-in-time, personalized, or additional support systems for students. Since community colleges [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 20 | June 3, 2021 Changing the Tide: Increasing Student Retention by Acknowledging Race and Bias Over the past 400 years, race has impacted every facet of life for marginalized groups in the United States, including housing, education, and job opportunities. Although institutions of higher education have shifted [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 19 | May 27, 2021 Developing a Successful Dual Enrollment Program Harford Community College has been working with dually enrolled business students for eight years. We have employed a variety of practices to help students succeed and have identified some that work well and challenges that students still [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 18 | May 20, 2021 Disruptor or Savior? A Centennial College COVID-19 Academic Case Study The world of academia as we know it has been turned upside down in a hurry due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Educational institutions continue to respond to what the virus has done [...]
Volume XLIII, No. 17 | May 13, 2021 Pandemic Pedagogy and Creating Community With Podcasts Pandemic pedagogy began in survival mode. An extra week of spring break quickly became a panicked full-course redesign as we took our face-to-face classes straight into an LMS while watching the news about the pandemic unfold [...]
