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Student evaluations are a part of every faculty member’s life. Some consider them to be a positive part of the academic life and others dismiss them as a meaningless exercise (or even worse, as a detriment to good teaching). You might as well know that I come down on the side of student evaluations being [...]

Tags: positive, Professors, students, teachers, teaching, tips, work

Perfectionism runs rampant through the professorial world. Let me acknowledge up front that I am perfectly familiar with this, having lived with it for 56 years at this point, but having learned a great deal in the last 25 about how to deal with it so that it’s not debilitating. Here are ten tips for [...]

If you teach at the college level (or any other institution for post-secondary education), your students are going to complete course evaluations at the end of the term. That is a given. And, I believe it is a worthwhile way to determine one aspect of how well a professor or instructor teaches. The point of [...]

One of my Life of E’s members sent in this question for today’s Email Extravaganza: When I teach, I often want to use supplemental material (or even need to because the text I use doesn’t cover something). What guidelines must I follow to ensure I’m not violating copyright? If it’s just a section of a [...]

Tags: avoid plagiarism, classroom, college, copyright infringement, fair use, guidelines, Professors, teachers

When you teach in the college classroom, it’s hard to keep track of the time.  This is true during lecture, Q & A portions, learning activities with your students, student presentations, and yes…even breaks during long classes.  You may create any number of different timers for yourself or feel free to access the ones that [...]

Tags: concentration, focus, Speaking, teaching, time, timers

The teleseminar on how to get everything done so you can offer a teleseminar in 4-6 weeks is tomorrow!  If you haven’t yet signed up (and you’ll receive the recording even if you can’t be there live) is http://meggin.com/CountdowntoaTeleseminar.php  I have this PACKED with information and am looking forward to teaching it and then seeing [...]

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Regardless of the age level of your students, you are teaching characterization of one type or another. It may be through traditional literature study or it may be through the examination and analysis of political figures. By using a list of 1001 Descriptors, some of which are shown below, you can open up words and [...]

Tags: characterization, descriptors, literature, teaching, words