28 Jan, 2020

How Will This Help Me Get a Job?

2020-06-15T17:53:15-05:00January 28th, 2020|Categories: Innovation Abstracts|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Volume XLII, No. 2 | January 30, 2020 How Will This Help Me Get a Job? With the cost of education skyrocketing, and more pressure than ever being placed on securing a high-paying job after graduation, students often become frustrated by courses or activities they feel are a waste of time and [...]

10 Dec, 2019

Singing Through Freshman Composition

2020-06-15T17:54:35-05:00December 10th, 2019|Categories: Innovation Abstracts|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Volume XLI, No. 47 | December 12, 2019 Singing Through Freshman Composition During my first semester teaching English Composition at Wake Technical Community College, I was surprised to find that over half of my students did not have the textbook by the second week of class. When we began reading and analyzing [...]

22 Nov, 2019

Elementary, My Dear Students

2020-06-15T17:56:16-05:00November 22nd, 2019|Categories: Innovation Abstracts|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Volume XLI, No. 45 | November 26, 2019 Elementary, My Dear Students Many educators agree that teaching an introductory course can be more challenging than teaching an upper-level course. The effectiveness of the professor’s teaching is put to the test since students have no previous material to fall back on. Many instructors [...]