Student Guide Corner

Periodically, I list the entries on this blog that have gained the most readership over the years.    I am not always sure why these postings have become so popular but you might find a few of these thoughts to be especially interesting as you start a new school year. (1) � What Do We Add? � July 22, 2010 (2) � Introduction � Teaching (Financial Accounting) � January 7, 2010 (3) � What Is the Purpose of a Final Exam � May 12, 2010 (4) � What the Catcher Tells the Pitcher � August 21, 2011 (5) � A Good Suggestion � June 1, 2013 (6) � What Is the Best Book You Ever Read � June 23, 2012 (7) � The Future Is Now? � August 13, 2012 (8) � How You Test Is How They Will Learn � January 31, 2010 (9) � A Note to My Students � January 15, 2012 (10) � We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us � May 22, 2012 ** I was hunting through some old materials this morning and found the following paragraphs that I had written a number of years ago.    It is a list of what I th...

Before I get started today, I want to send out a big Thank You to all the readers of this blog.    Several days ago, we went over 90,000 total pageviews.    When I first started writing these essays, I would have bet a gazillion dollars that I�d never get 5,000 pageviews.    And, I would not have gotten to even that lower mark without folks like you passing along good words about this site.    Thanks � I would have probably stopped writing years ago except that the traffic remains strong and actually seems to grow over time.    You provide the energy.   I continue to be convinced that people really do like to think and talk about teaching because it is both extremely important to our lives and our future and a whole lot of fun. ** A new school year is starting.    For me, it will be my 43 rd year in the classroom.    I have written before that I believe every teacher should consider the �teaching perso...

I try to write all of these blog essays myself.   However, a good friend of mine, James Lang at Assumption College, has just published a new book ( Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty ) that I think is excellent and innovative and I wanted to recommend that you consider reading it.    (Here, in the name of full disclosure, I will admit that he includes a couple of pages on my approach to teaching but that is only a very small part of the book.) On his own blog, Jim posted the following description of the book.    I thought he did a great job of explaining what he had done.    So, I am simply including his words directly.    If you are looking for a thoughtful book on teaching and education, I think this is a great choice. ** By James Lang: Just around two years ago, the editor of my last book with Harvard University Press  told me that she had been to a conference about teaching in higher education and heard a lot of...