Category: Effective Teaching Strategies
“Say My Name, Say My Name”: Why Learning Names Improves Student Success – Faculty Focus
“Yes, Iris,” my Chicana/o Studies Professor spouted as he acknowledged my raised hand for a comment about the reading. “He knows my name?” I […]
January 9, 2026
“Say My Name, Say My Name”: Why Learning Names Improves Student Success – Faculty Focus
“Yes, Iris,” my Chicana/o Studies Professor spouted as he acknowledged my raised hand for a comment about the reading. “He knows my name?” I […]
January 9, 2026
Scaffolding for Success in a Crash Course – Faculty Focus
As the lead professor for a clinical crash course with 50 students, 16 weeks to cover almost every bone in the body and limited […]
January 7, 2026
Ten Tiny Experiments to Ease Burnout for Educators – Faculty Focus
I am busy, stressed, perhaps feeling the first prickles of burnout. I feel tension may be getting between me and my students, […]
January 5, 2026
Ten Tiny Experiments to Ease Burnout for Educators – Faculty Focus
I am busy, stressed, perhaps feeling the first prickles of burnout. I feel tension may be getting between me and my students, […]
January 5, 2026
A Professor’s Framework for Meaningful, Joyful, and Sustainable Work – Faculty Focus
One of the unexpected gifts of the pandemic was the clarity it brought. We need to care for ourselves in […]
December 15, 2025
The Art of Ending Well – Faculty Focus
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on May 1, 2023 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Learn more about […]
December 12, 2025
The Art of Ending Well – Faculty Focus
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on May 1, 2023 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Learn more about […]
December 12, 2025
Lessons Learned from Students Using AI Inappropriately in My Class – Faculty Focus
Generative AI is here and is creating challenges in higher education (Balch, 2023). As instructors, we are struggling with the need […]
December 10, 2025