by Valerio Palamara, Mathematics Math is hard! Most students have shared this point of view at some point in their education, and it’s important to examine the causes of this problematic approach and understand what these can entail for us prospective instructors in this field. The amount of difficulty we experience with this subject primarily…
Communicating with Students about Conducting an Analysis and Setting Them Up for Success by Emily Tingle, Sociology In too many undergraduate classes, instructors of record ask their students to conduct an “analysis” in short and long assignments, assuming our students know exactly what we mean, and how we expect them to do that, and communicate…
by Taylor Heid, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources When you sit down to write, do you get a flash of sweat and racing thoughts? Well, same, and chances are we are not alone. While some may have social anxiety when public speaking, similarly, when I sit down to write, I stumble across my…
by Alison Redman Last week, my students completed the first step of their big essay project—the proposal and annotated bibliography. In collaboration with my supervising professor, we gave them a degree of freedom in choosing their topics, but we provided the resources that would make up their bibliographies. On the assignment sheet, we had simply…