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Student Athletes deal with stress more than the ordinary student. Working with your professors can ensure you receive good grades.
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Organizing your course materials is critical to achieving optimal student learning – and essential to keep you feeling peacefully productive, as well. Professors’ organizational strategies can be plotted along a broad continuum, from zero to exemplary. Three strategies will be shared in this article, which you can then take an modify to best [...]

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Want to know the secrets to finding a great computer science program that will guarantee you make big money right away? Ever wondered how some people get six figure incomes directly out of college? Learn the secrets to their success, and possibly yours too!
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Just as other professionals do, college professors adhere to a code of ethics that serves as a guide to fair and equal treatment of all students in their classes. Behaving in ethical ways is easier if you familiarize yourself with your institution’s policies regarding students’ rights and responsibilities, and by attempting to view situations through [...]

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Just walking into class on the first day and mumbling, “I’m Dr. Smithereens,” and then just launching into whatever that day’s lecture is (or bringing up your opening PowerPoint) or doing anything else that doesn’t start to build interaction and rapport with students is going to cause a collective ‘oh, great, not this,’ from your [...]

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Establishing an agenda and a good lesson plan for each meeting should enable you to keep your class on target. However, unpredictable events sometimes affect even the best planning. To minimize their impact, and to provide you with the optimum amount of time to address your objectives, you would be wise to adhere to the [...]

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Managing your class time – and the overall classroom environment – in a strategic manner will prevent or help you overcome most of the challenges you may worry about. There are, however, several practices that will help to ensure that the environment is 1) conducive to maximum learning, 2) perceived as fair by students, and [...]

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In these troubled economic times, more and more individuals are going back to school. They are doing this because they understand that with the economy being in as bad a shape as it is currently in, the only way to really get ahead is to have some sort of specialization in your chosen field. There [...]

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Assumptions abound when it comes to college selection. Everyone knows that state schools are cheaper than private schools, right? Not so fast. If you are looking at schools in Ohio, you’ll be glad you read this article. If you assume that the state schools will cost you less, you may be [...]

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One of the first few areas that students check out in your course syllabus is the ‘assignments and tests.’ From your perspective, you know that creating learning experiences for the students and assessing their learning is of the utmost importance. Consider these three areas carefully when strategically preparing your syllabus: assignments, assessments, and in-class learning [...]

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