While I’ve always been open to sharing my college experience, I usually do this upon student prompting rather than openly sharing the information with students. I think there may be a benefit to leading with these stories for students overall since the longer I teach, the less “accessible” I seem to become amongst students in a large introductory…[Read more]

I like the idea of problem sets of higher difficulty for students. This may be beneficial in the recitation portion of my own class because I find that the students may adopt a more passive approach and place more emphasis on the recitation instructor to guide them through. I would actually be interested to see how many students enter college with…[Read more]

I can see the benefit of this statement as it relates to Biology especially within the laboratory setting. In our close ended labs, students are often getting successful outcomes because of protocol design and lab instructor guidance. They see the solution and are happy that their data matches the expected outcome. However, student responses…[Read more]