Academic Honesty

How do you keep students honest? Art Crawley, director of the Center for Faculty Development at Louisiana State University, offers advice for keeping the academy on the straight and narrow.

Handling Conflict

Have you experienced hot moments in the classroom and wonder if you handled the situation well? Lee Warren, associate director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, offers tips on handling the exploding classroom.

Stressed-Out Profs

Today's fast paced worklife requires a conscious effort to reduce stress. Reduce you hectic worklife with advice from Joan North, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin.

Challenging Students

Research indicates that students in learning communities do better in their courses and stay in school. Terry Wildman, director of the Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Virginia Tech, discusses learning communities and the challenge to traditional teaching practices.

Teaching in Circles

What happens when college professors come together to talk informally about what they do? Teaching circles help faculty engage in give-and-take discussions about what works in the classroom. Mary Ann Cessna, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and David Graf, executive director of technology at Nova Southeastern University's Graduate School of Education, share the benefits of teaching circles.

Restoring Civility

Do you face students with bad attitudes or mismatched expectations? Steven Richardson, vice president for academic affairs at Winona State University, offers advice on reconnecting to students to restore classroom civility.

Teaching Diversity

Genuine multicultural learning occurs only when we dare to engage students actively with each other. Peter Frederick, a professor of history at Wabash College, offer strategies for teaching diversity in the classroom.

Techno-Teaching

Get ready for the demands of teaching online and at a distance with some practical suggestions from Tom Cyrs. He is professor emeritus at New Mexico State University specializing in training instructors on how to convert traditional courses and design new courses for distance learning.

Planning a Trip Online

Preparing for the cyberworld is like packing for a trip. Sally Kuhlenschmidt, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Western Kentucky University, acts as your tour guide into cyberspace. She identifies issues of use and interest to educators.

Acting the Part

Do you have your own academic persona that will hold your student's attention? Morris Burns, a professor of theater at Colorado State University offers tools that actors use that may you enliven the classroom.

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