Are your students doing the reading? Let Blackboard help you!
It is frustrating to come into class ready to have great discussions with your students only to find out that just a […]
Category: Teaching Tips
This blog, written by Principia College faculty, was active between 2013 and 2022. Their advice and insights continue to be valid, so please feel free to enjoy this archive to learn about teaching and learning strategies and successes.
Make it count
A colleague and I were discussing how to support a group of students as the semester winds down. We started thinking through […]
Teaching Annotations
Annotating is an essential reading and studying skill. While some college freshmen will have been exposed to the concept of annotating their […]
Teaching Acknowledgement and Response (and Modeling Academic Conversation!)
One night recently, less than twelve hours before my 8:00 a.m. Fundamentals of Academic Writing class was due to meet, it hit […]
Break It Down to Build It Up
During the first few weeks of school, I did not collect much of my students writing because much of their writing occurs […]