Get your taxes done early! We are planning a full day of update speakers, workshops, and poster presentations for Saturday, April 15 in Tyler Texas. Our morning update speaker will be Dr. Michael Beckstead, Associate Professor in the Department of…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, as I participate in Valerie O’Loughlin’s online HAPS-I course and get ready to attend the annual HAPS conference. Valerie’s course deals with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), a subject that should be…
I’m at that point in the semester when I really have to start planning for the next terms – both summer and fall – and that makes me dream big at the same time I’m addressing minutiae. Can I develop…
In Texas, the new state guidelines for teaching A&P at the college level include teaching scientific methods and experimental methods. While I’m sure most of us cover something about the ways of science, I know at my campus we will…
We’re just past mid-semester, and that means some of our students are starting to ask for help in catching up on what they should have been doing every week. As with many institutions across the country, we have been working…
I’ve just returned from the annual assessment conference, held by Texas A&M University. One of the themes that was repeated by many speakers was strategies to deal with faculty resistant to assessing general education competencies. Another was the difficult task of…
It’s the season for local athletes to sign letters to commit to teams at the next level, and I find it heartwarming when these young people acknowledge the impact of their coaches and other mentors. They realize that their opportunity…
I’ll be guiding my students through an introductory exploration of the body’s resistance to disease tomorrow morning. Traditionally, I would start with the types of resistance, the layers of defense, and the components of nonspecific mechanisms before digging into adaptive…
I’m feeling kind of unsettled this month. After taking a break from blogging over the month-long year-end break, I’m finding it difficult to kick-start myself. In preparing this post, I looked back at my resolutions – and I want to assure…
Okay, it’s that time in the semester when I have to force myself to focus on the positive – not on the desperate pleas for just half a point, or the snarky comments that I don’t know how to teach.…