Preparing Graduate Students to Teach: Another Yale Legacy 50+ Years Strong
In his 2013 inaugural speech, President Peter Salovey emphasized that Yale’s educational mission exists “in the midst of a teaching and learning revolution.” As the Yale Center for Teaching and...
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Allyson P. Brantley As an undergraduate, service-learning changed my life. I know, it sounds exaggerated and cheesy, but a summer-long immersion service experience in Tijuana, Mexico confirmed my...
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Mindfulness of the Mind
Jared Rovny I. Mental frameworks The brilliant French mathematician and Einstein’s contemporary, Henri Poincaré, was mid-vacation in the town of Coutances, mid-conversation, and mid-stride — one foot...
View ArticleActive Listening: Teaching with Music
by Christy Thomas You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.[1] -Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes’ famous words to Dr. Watson can be rephrased to reference the ear rather than the eye as...
View ArticleScaffolding Student Projects: Seven Decisions
By Edward O’Neill Why give students collaborative projects? Many factors come together to make the assignment a good learning experience, and this means many decisions must be made. Collaborative or...
View ArticleMobile-Ready Education: Making Education More Accessible
By Stefan Avey In our increasingly digital world, mobile devices are ubiquitous. On college campuses, cell phone and tablet use by students and teachers alike seems to be increasing with respect to...
View ArticleCategorizing Learners: Bad Uses for Good Tools
by Kyle Skinner Over the last couple of years, while becoming more invested in developing myself as a teacher, I’ve been asked to take the VARK inventory three or four times. VARK was presented to me...
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Choosing an Instructional Method? Consider Teacher-Student Interactions
by Sara Sanchez Alonso One of the most challenging aspects as we prepare to become effective teachers is to understand the variety of instructional methods that we can implement in the classroom. If we...
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