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What I’ve learned in 10 Years of Teaching College (And Why I Give My Students High Fives)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. It is hard to believe. But, I’ve just completed teaching at the university level for 10 academic years. At the age of 24, I  began teaching as a graduate student in 2006 at Washington State University where I independently taught 2 classes a […]

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Should Students Be Able to Fire Teammates in A Class Project? (Part 3 of 3)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In the previous two posts in this series, I talked about steps I take to set teams up for success in group class projects. The first post looked at group contracts. The second post looked at peer evaluations of one’s team. In this […]

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A Guide To Setting Up Classroom Groups for Success: Team Evaluations (Part 2 of 3)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. This is the second post in a 3-part series on how to set up teams to be successful. [If you haven’t read post 1 yet, I encourage you to read it first]. I started this series with a question: Should Students Be Able […]

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A Guide To Setting Up Classroom Groups for Success: Group Contracts (Part 1 of 3)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Spoiler alert: The final blog post in this 3-part series about how to set up your class for success when working with groups will be titled: Should Students Be Able to Fire Teammates in a Class Project? In my classes, the answer is […]

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What’s Changing? My Writing Across Platforms students will write for BuzzFeed and More in Spring 2016. Oh, And here’s the syllabus!

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Each semester, I like to highlight something that I’m doing different in one of my classes (for example, see last Fall’s What’s Changing post). This semester, I’d like to highlight my Writing Across Platforms class (the syllabus is at the bottom of this […]

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