Community College Teaching

The Best Teaching Advice I Have Received | Faculty Focus Throughout my teaching career, I have asked numerous mentors for their advice regarding excellent teaching. Here is a sampling.

Connecting Before We Can Physically Connect: Online Icebreakers to Use for the First Day of Class | Faculty Focus The following offers online icebreaker ideas for the first day of class which can help demonstrate inclusiveness and engagement.

15 Ways to Engage Your Students In-person, Online, and in Zoom | Faculty Focus Fifteen strategies to use for in-person, Zoom, or online course delivery to engage your students.

The Clock Strikes at Midnight: An Argument Against the “Pumpkin Rule” | Faculty Focus Beginning in the spring of 2020, I started using a new method of flexible deadlines: The Date To Keep on Track (DTKOT).

Becoming Critical Readers of Nonfiction: Preservice Teachers Explore Orbis Pictus Texts | Faculty Focus Placing critical literacy curriculum in the hands of teachers is the first step to enriching the educational experience for their students.

Awakening to All Aspects of Teaching | Faculty Focus We need to touch the soul of teaching more often, and the poem “Awakening” explains how.