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Are Good Teachers Born or Created?
Throughout my 30-plus years of teaching at the high school and college levels, I have often wondered whether good teachers come by being “good” naturally, or can one be “taught” to be a good...
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Improving Completion Rates at the Community College
The writing is on the wall! Sooner or later financial aid for students will be tied to completion rates at the colleges that the students intend to attend. How can we be prepared to take on this...
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Developmental Education and the Week 5 Dilemma
Having taught many developmental education mathematics courses, I have noted that in-person class sizes become significantly smaller around the fifth week of the semester and become even smaller as the...
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Teaching Calculus Online
Teaching any class online presents its own set of challenges. In the past few years, I have taught Calculus and Analytic Geometry I as an online course and have realized that there are some unique...
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So I’m an Used Car Salesperson…
So I’m an Used Car Salesperson….There used to be a commercial on the radio about a wife introducing her husband to friends. When asked what he did for a living, he would reply that he was a spy or a...
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I am truly baffled by all of the negative publicity that “Common Core” has received in the last few months. One should note that Common Core proposes three key shifts in mathematics: focus on fewer...
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My Reflections on the 9x9x25 Challenge
As we wrap up the 9x9x25 Writing Project, here are a couple of reflections that I would like to share. Firstly, the project was valuable to me in that it made me focus on the general topic of good...
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I am truly baffled by all of the negative publicity that “Common Core” has received in the last few months. One should note that Common Core proposes three key shifts in mathematics: focus on fewer...
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My reflections on the 9x9x25 Challenge
As we wrap up the 9x9x25 Writing Project, here are a couple of reflections that I would like to share.Firstly, the project was valuable to me in that it made me focus on the general topic of good...
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