Teaching is my passion. It can be frustrating, it can be lonely, it can be challenging, and it can be pure joy. Because it is my passion, I want to know that I’m teaching as best as I can and supporting my students’ learning. But how do I know if I’m teaching well?

From the first day of class, whether in person or online, we can take steps to foster community. The benefits of building community are numerous. Students can hold each other accountable for attending class and engaging in class activities. They can engage in group learning more effectively by knowing each others’ strengths and weaknesses. They can also engage in respectful classroom discussions involving multiple perspectives that could otherwise lead to controversy.

When Covid-19 got its foothold in the United States, and schools left for spring break never to return, we had to scramble to switch to fully remote learning. Now that we're resurfacing from the pandemic, many stakeholders are pushing for remote learning to continue. There are advantages to remote learning, and it does need to be utilized. Still, there are situations where being physically together in the same room can offer exceptional learning opportunities.

According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey in October 2020, men accounted for 71% of the decline in enrollment numbers compared with five years ago. While enrollment overall has been dropping, the loss of males has occurred at a higher rate than females. It appears that is simply due to fewer men applying for college. Leaving many to wonder, where are men going?

It can be challenging to get to know your individual students at the college level as you do not see them frequently and likely have no prior connection. Building positive, personal relationships with your college students takes time and effort, but putting in that little extra work is well worth the results.

With the anticipated learning loss due to the pandemic, forced remote learning, and the ubiquitous use of technology for the classroom, there has been considerable talk about personalized learning. What exactly is personalized learning? What are the advantages and disadvantages of other strategies? And, most importantly, how do you implement personalized learning in the college math classroom?

Why does math stop interest in science? There is a need for more STEM graduates to fill the projected growth in STEM occupations. What can we do to support and encourage those students who are interested in STEM, but then get stopped by challenges?

In this blog, Arlene Vinion Dubiel shares what makes an exemplary project-based assessment with the intent of helping others to identify, modify, and/or create high-quality project-based assessments.

Most of us will be going back to in-person learning in the fall, but we can’t go back to exactly how things were before the pandemic started. What are these lessons we have learned, and how do we use them when we see our students in person again?

As you complete your grading for the academic year, consider whether your course grading system promotes a learning orientation or a task-completion orientation. Changing a course grading system to focus almost entirely on summative projects produced final grades that rewarded quality over participation and effort.