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The Teaching Professor Newsletters are published by
Magna Publications, Inc. and edited by Maryellen Weimer, Associate Professor
of Teaching and Learning at Pennsylvania State University.
February 2006
- Google No More: A Model for Successful Research
- Reflection in the Context of Learning
- Interviews: A Module That Removes the Mystery
- Learning for the Sake of Learning
- Conversations About Grades: Realistic Expectations
- Capstone Courses Prepare Students for Transition
- The Last Class: A Time for Celebration and Ritual
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January 2006
- Using Virtual Space to Enhance the Classroom
- Promoting Intellectual Development
- Another Metaphor for Teaching Excellence: Machiavelli’s The Prince
- How to Get Wet without Plunging In: Creative Ways to Start Class
- How to Handle Student Excuses
- Better Understanding the Group Exam Experience
- Teaching, Research, and Salary
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December 2005
- How to Prevent Paper Recycling
- To Call or Not to Call: That Continues to Be the Question
- Putting the Participation Puzzle Together
- Differences Between Student and Faculty Perceptions of Learning Strategies
- Principles That Make Improvement a Positive Process
- Exams and American Idol
- Writing to Reflect and Improve
- Looking Both Ways
- Student Engagement in Courses
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November 2005
- Chapter Essays as a Teaching Tool
- The Connection between Teaching and Research
- Student Projects: Working for Clients
- First-Generation Student Persistence
- Teaching and Everything Else in Those Mid-Career Years
- Reduce Test Anxiety to Improve Student Performance
- What Do We Know about Where the Scholarship of Teaching’s Being Done?
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October 2005
- Of Sidewalks and Learning
- Fill-in-the-Blank Lecture Notes: Advantages
- Student Observations of Teachers: A Caveat
- The Wizard of Oz: A Metaphor for Teaching Excellence
- Virtual Teams with Fluid Membership
- The Circle of Scholarship
- Creating Effective Handouts
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August/September 2005
- Need to Get Your Students Talking? Try Speed Dating!
- Active Learning: Some Interesting Results
- Learning from Dandelions
- Student Success after the First Year
- Compulsive Teaching Syndrome
- Teaching Professor Conference 2006: Call for Proposals
- Can You Make a Lecture Too Interesting?
- Using the Syllabus to Lay Down the Law
- What’s Bad about Good Practices?
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June/July 2005
- Top-of-Hour Break Renews Attention Span
- Bored and Ignored or Gained and Maintained: Role of Attention in
Beginning Class
- Active Learning: Reviewing the Research
- A Brief Statement of My Teaching Philosophy
- Providing Notes: A Research Update
- Cheating: Can We Be Part of the Solution? A Response to Johnson
- A Less Structured, More Learning-Centered Environment
- The Power of Feedback
- ‘Lone Wolves’ on Student Teams
- Book Review: Professing and Pedagogy: Learning the Teaching of English
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May 2005
- Enter: The (Well-Designed) Lecture
- Doing it the Night Before: Preventing Procrastination
- The Power of Putting the Students at the Center of Learning
- Adjuncts: Let’s Have More of Them!
- Telling, Doing, Making Mistakes, and Learning
- We Seek a Candidate Committed to Teaching Excellence. . .
- Study Points to Shortcomings of Group Work
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April 2005
- Cheating: Are We Part of the Problem?
- What Students Take from the Feedback
- Evaluating Student Work: A Different Kind of Feedback
- Individual and Group Work: Perceptions and Experiences
- Student Presentation of Mathematics Problems
- Making a Case for Writing Research Papers
- Teaching International Students
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March 2005
- A Self-Grading Case Study
- Students Conceptions of Teaching and Learning
- Finding the Discussion Question That Works
- Does It Really Matter Where Students Sit?
- A Participation Rubric
- Participation Rubric PDF
- Peer-Led Team Learning, Fewer Lectures: More Learning
- Teacher’s Pet
- Strategies for Large Classes
- Scholarship of Teaching: Now Too Defined?
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February 2005
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Cheating: Friends and Web-Based Exams
- High-Maintenance Students
- Visualizing Thinking: A Strategy that Improves Thinking
- It Costs to Cut Class
- Student Expectations for College Courses: An Update
- Teaching as an Uncertain Endeavor
- Effective Teams in the Workplace: Do Students Know the Characteristics?
- How Rubrics Work
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January 2005
- A Global Perspective on Responding to Student Writing
- Designing Assignments to Minimize Cyber-Cheating
- An Update on Learning Styles/Cognitive Styles Research
- Why I Like Freshmen
- Student Recommendations for Encouraging Participation
- A Viable Literature for College Teaching
- Using Popular Game and Reality Show Formats to Review for Exams
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December 2004
- An Eloquent, Insightful Teaching Philosophy Statement
- Respect and Disrespect in Class
- Should We Require Attendance?
- Online Lecture Notes Can Aid Student Learning
- Problem-Based Learning: One Set of Lessons Learned
- Grades, Money and the Economic Orientation to Education
- Using Online Discussion Forums for Minute Papers
- Assessing the ABCs: Online Tools
- Engaging Students in the Learning Process: What Faculty Can Do?
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November 2004
- A Fair and Reasonable Approach to Deadlines and Late Penalties
- When Teaching Less is More
- Faculty Ratings: Improved With Consultation
- Non-Threatening Classroom Environments
- To Read or Not to Read PowerPoint Slides
- Study Reveals Faculty Attitudes About Grade Inflation
- Translating ‘Ideal’ Professor Characteristics into Practices
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October 2004
- Hearing Students Voices With The 'Class Communicator'
- Technology As A Tool, Not A Teacher Replacement
- Finding The 'Deliberate Negatives' In Our Student Evaluations
- Tom Cruise Saves A Failing Student
- Learning By Doing: Teams Present Math Homework
- Pedagogical Scholarship: An Innovative Example
- Grade 'Insurance' In Large Enrollment Classes
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August/September 2004
- Shifting Paradigms? Don’t Forget to Tell Your Students
- Understanding How Students Perceive Workload
- Plagiarists I Have Known
- Teaching Professor Conferences, 2004 and 2005
- How Faculty Learn to Teach Better
- Motivating Students: 8 Simple Rules for Teachers
- Videogames: Lessons About Learning?
- Are Faculty Doing the Scholarship of Teaching?
- Collaborative Exams: An Educationally Sound Practice?
- Good Advice on Greatness
- 12 Commandments for PowerPoint: One Objection
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June/July 2004
- A Three-Tiered Approach to Connecting Learning Components
- Students as Clients: Exploring the Metaphor Further
- Confronting Failure Constructively
- 12 Commandments for PowerPoint
- An Internship for the Professor
- Learning Portfolios Encourage Deeper Learning
- Building on ‘First Word’ Activity
- Presentation Software: Does the Course Make a Difference?
- Deciding on Which Active Learning Activities to Use
- Covering Content and Teaching Thinking
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May 2004
- What I Learned about Teaching from Observing Stand-up Comedians
- A Way to Learn Names
- Effective Learning Begins With the Right Attitudes
- Book Review: New and Noteworthy
- Seven Deadly Assumptions About Students
- Children, Adults, or Adolescents?
- Turning the Tables: Life as an Undergraduate
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April 2004
- Ownership Increases Level of Self-Reported Learning
- Personnel Narratives Scholarship
- A Connection Between Learning Styles and Preferences
- Unethical Behavior to Avoid
- Using Newspapers in the Classroom
- What Annoys Students?
- Students View Teaching Themselves as Inferior Form of Learning
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March 2004
- Music Metaphor Help Students Understand Group Dynamics
- Understanding Student Motivation
- Web-Based Quizzes
- Quizzes — To Accomplish Classroom Management, Comprehension, Confidence and
Conversation
- Preventing Disruptive Behavior
- Making a Difference in Students’ Lives
- Effects of Instructional Methods
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February 2004
- Enhancing Learning on Exams
- Bridging Research and Practice
- Student Intrinsic Motivation
- Student Consumerism
- From Consumer to Independent Learner
- A Course That Prepares Students for Real World, Provides Insights on
Program
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January 2004
- Teaching is More than Telling, Training
- Community College Faculty
- Improving Lectures
- Teaching in the Lab
- Oral Exams in a Statistics Course
- Positive Outcomes of Journal Assignment
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December 2003
- Why Students Resist Innovative Teaching
- Assessing Teaching
- Trusting Students Increases Enjoyment of Teaching
- Peer Assessment
- Guidelines for Effective Feedback
- The Meaning of Student-Centered
- Understanding Upset Students
- Teaching is More than Telling, Training
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November 2003
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Note-Taking Advice
- Teaching Without a Textbook
- Why the Scientific Method Matters in Teaching
- More lessons From Athletic Coaches
- Faculty Web Pages
- Self-Regulated Learning
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October 2003
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Students Open Class
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Knowledge Retention, and Transfer
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First-Year Excitements and Worries
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Lecture Breaks
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Student Peer Feedback
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Text Study Aids
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August/September 2003
- 10 Myths of Teaching and Learning
- Freshmen Project—Critiquing Workshops
- Learning in the Classroom (Hesse)
- Learning in the Classroom (Spence)
- WhatNeeds to Change?
- Collaborative Testing
- Learner Centered Without Losing Content
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June/July 2003
- Curriculum-SpecificWriting
- To Measure “Compellingness”
- Self-and Peer Assessment
- Attendance/Performance
- Careless Feedback
- McKeachie’s Teaching Maxims
- Active Learning Outside Class
- Group Exams
- Leadership Skills in Corporate Classroom
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May2003
- Can We Learn from Athletic Coaches
- Personal Student References
- Improve Learning
- Lecture Notes and Weekly Quizzes
- Deep vs. Surface Learning
- Digital Faculty Support
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April2003
- Integrated Innovations
- Waves of Technology Adoption
- Blended Courses
- Contract Grading
- Student Formulated Exam Questions
- Book Review
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March 2003
- Good Teaching Redux
- Preparing Students for Independent Research
- Facilitating Large Class Group Work
- Assessment = Difference?
- Grade Inflation Mythology
- Encouraging Autonomous Learning
- Are Their Self-Assessments Accurate?
- Learning Journals and Critical Teaching
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February 2003
- Syllabus Quiz Reduces Misunderstanding
- Making Reading Assignments Matter
- What Makes Groups Successful
- Mnemonic Strategies Enhance Memory
- Preceptoring for Varied Skill Levels
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January 2003
- Evaluations Perceived Differently
- Disastrous Experience Teaches Lessons
- Internet Cheaters: Who and Why?
- Three Roles of Today's Syllabus
- Class Size and Achievement: Mixed Reports
- Are Part-Time Faculty Grumpy?
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December 2002
- Advice from the Best
- Are Students Lazy?
- Books on Large Classes
- Is Teaching a Profession?
- Prevent Grade Inflation
- Learner-Centered Teaching Conflicts
- Authorize Students to Criticize
- Techniques Transform Teaching
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November 2002
- Teaching and/or Research
- Journaling with Students
- Bingo Game to Decrease Procrastination
- Learning Intervention Contracts
- Better Performance on Essay Exams
- Conflicts with Students
- Teaching Swimming or Swimming Coaches
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October 2002
- Ironies of Instruction
- Let Students Show What They Know
- Group Work that Works
- Objective Grading of Class Participation
- Graduation Curmudgeon
- Challenging Teacher Training Assumptions
- Inter-class Interaction
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August/September 2002
- Evaluating Internet Sites
- Scholarship of Teaching
- What Doesn't Work
- Students Describe Service Learning
- Empathy for the Reluctant Student
- Weighted Grading in Large Classes
- Viewpoint and Perspective
- Research Assistantships
- Problems in Your Teaching
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June/July 2002
- Teaching and Research
- Hoe Do Student Respond to Written Feedback?
- Grading Takes Toll
- Expand Use of Concept Maps
- How Faculty and Students View Class Attendance
- "Guided Tours" Leading Case Study Discussion
- Does Practitioner Research Yield Valid Findings?
- Trust Critical for Successful Student Groups
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May 2002
- Partnership Model
- Electronic Journals
- The "Green Knight," and Classroom Expectations
- Underutilized Office Hours
- Action Learning
- Historians and Teaching Scholarship
- Engaged Students
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April 2002
- Contract Grading
- Exercise in Student Self-Discovery
- The "Seven Dwarfs" of Classroom Participation
- Help Students Bloom
- Talent Search or Skill Development
- Better Writing Prompts
- Teaching Does Not Equal Lecturing
- Humor as Teaching Tool
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March 2002
- A Decade of Scholarship Reconsidered
- Computers Inspire Growth
- Prospective Group Members
- Crossing Education Levels
- Student Classroom Responses
- Student Ethics Found Wanting
- Thinking Critically
- Review Spurs Syllabus Revisions
- Purposes of Gen Ed Syllabi
- Rewriting Texts
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