Volume XLI, No. 14 | April 18, 2019 Accessing Prior Knowledge by Understanding High School Again Secondary education is a common experience among college students. Less common, however, are the types of experiences students had in high school. In order to be inclusive, leaders on college campuses must seek to understand the [...]
Volume XLI, No. 13 | April 11, 2019 Mentoring Millennial Masterpieces: Creating a Class on Heroes Over the years, I have seen social media jade many of my students, so much so that I began to ask them questions about their online interactions and how they affected them. Almost without fail, my [...]
Volume XLI, No. 12 | April 4, 2019 Help Me! Connecting Students to College Resources In my eight-week courses, students are assigned a final reflection essay. In it, they are asked to respond to the following questions: Evaluate the choices (personal or academic) you made before this course. What were some of [...]
Volume XLI, No. 11 | March 28, 2019 Beyond the Digital Roster: Ten Ways to Promote Multicultural Education in the Online Technical and Community College Classroom Over the past decade, online programs have become an increasingly common method of learning for an increasingly diverse student population (Allen and Seaman). A recent study [...]
Volume XLI, No. 10 | March 21, 2019 Why Ask “Why?”: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines Introduction Critical thinking is valuable when preparing students for academic and economic advancement. Critical thinking is also valuable for intrinsic reasons as part of living a good life. Despite the fact that we are faculty members [...]
Volume XLI, No. 9 | March 14, 2019 Scaffold, Reinforce, Imagine: Society Building in the World History Classroom Introduction I have been teaching World History I to community college students for seven years. During my fifth year, I grew tired of reading and grading essays and suspected that my students felt the [...]
Volume XLI, No. 8 | March 7, 2019 Building Skills for Writing Anthropologically I teach an anthropology course that emphasizes intensive writing and cultural and global diversity through a series of progressively elevated anthropological writing experiences. I introduce students to anthropological writing through seven skills-building assignments followed by multimodal presentations and class [...]
Volume XLI, No. 7 | February 28, 2019 Rules of Engagement Helping students grasp the real-world stakes of a lesson is a struggle that many teachers face. As culinary instructors we try to simulate a live service, but demonstrating all the responsibilities of a chef, all the decisions that a chef needs [...]
Volume XLI, No. 6 | February 21, 2019 Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I Woman” Speech and the Creation of Ethos The lesson I discuss below addresses character creation, stereotypes, and credibility. In it I examine four versions of Sojourner Truth’s famous speech, commonly titled “Ain’t I a Woman.” I invite students to identify [...]
Volume XLI, No. 5 | February 14, 2019 Ways to Encourage Student Participation in the Classroom Whether you are a seasoned instructor or one who recently started teaching, everyone at some time or another has faced a lack of student participation in the classroom. The sound of crickets, blank stares, eye contact [...]