Retrieval and a bonus side-product—humanity
When I’ve taught a class a dozen times, as I have the Teaching the Writing Process class that trains writing tutors, I […]
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Author: Ellen Sprague
Predicting as a hook
I’m always looking for ways to improve my teaching—that is, to improve the learning my students signed up for. So it’s handy […]
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Practice what you preach
Last week I presented in Principia College’s Dilemmas and Decisions program. It involved a speech. The thing is, while I give others […]
A – Z for community
Sometimes as teachers we may be thinking we are teaching one thing when we are actually teaching another. I realized that lesson […]
“Heads Up”: Need to know vs. nice to know
You’ve gotta love it when a chat with a colleague self-combusts into ideas for a great class. I’d been thinking about ways […]