Congratulations and CAT Survey We’re approaching the end of another academic year! Congratulations on juggling your many responsibilities, and thank you for the care and guidance you provide for your students. Teaching, the work we share, is sometimes joyous and sometimes challenging; it is always important. We help our students to build critical thinking skills […]

What Can We Do With Student Evaluations? The 2019 Spring Course Evaluation window opened last week. Gulp. Most of us have mixed feelings about course evaluations. On one hand, there’s value in surveying students about their perceptions of our teaching. For many of us, evaluations are our main source of information about students’ experiences in […]

Responding to Last-Minute Requests The season of magical thinking has begun. You may have already received some panicked requests from students who are just now realizing that they’re not doing as well in your course as they’d intended. They may hope to salvage their grades with an outstanding, or even impossible, final performance; or they may […]

Making the Most of the Last Week Believe it or not, there are only three weeks of classes left in the spring semester. Many of us are feeling increasingly frantic, trying to pack too much into the last days of the term. But before you succumb to the impulse to rush through masses of material, […]