THINKING ABOUT TEACHING -- HOW DO YOU GET THEM EXCITED????
As I try to mention every now and then, if you want me to send you an announcement whenever I post a new blog entry (about 20 times per year), send me an email at Jhoyle@richmond.edu . *** My good friend Bob Jensen passed along the following URL a week or so ago: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/06/qa-laguardia-community-college-president-new-book-college-teaching?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=1d9d10a57e-Insider_Update_201512&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-1d9d10a57e-197565045 The related story talks with one of the authors of the book Taking College Teaching Seriously : Pedagogy Matters! The story begins with an interesting assertion: �The call to increase the number of U.S. adults with college degrees and improve college completion rates across the country has only grown louder in recent years. But relatively little has been discussed about the actual teaching that occurs inside the thousands of...