It’s been a relatively quiet summer but there’s plenty to blog about as the new semester begins.

An exciting bit of news is …

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I’ve been reading a slew of interesting – and often depressing – links from academia from the end of 2010. Flavia’s entry on students sharing …

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With the end of the semester comes the opportunity to review what students think of my teaching. As a (relatively) new teacher I take the …

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One of my favorite blogs is MIT’s Tomorrow’s Professor, and I particularly appreciate the essay on Explaining the Reasons for Criticisms of Students …

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My sense in teaching over the past four years is that I have been assessing higher grades. (I shy from the term “giving grades” as …

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In the spring I will again be teaching a class on conflict management. More than one colleague has expressed puzzlement as to why I would …

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I find “giving” grades as a teacher to be as troublesome as getting them when I was a student. Alfie Kohn (1999) in his book …

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The Blogosphere has been abuzz about a history department’s policy restricting students from citing Wikipedia. I’m not fond of this position, as I …

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I have just completed revising the syllabus for of course I will be again teaching in the spring of 2007: Understanding how we understand: technological …

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