The best class I have ever taken was a topic I loved but she was also the best teacher I ever had, she truly cared about her students and their mental health. I took another class this past semester about a topic I was neutral with and ended up hating the

I think this helps connect classes to real life and shows how the knowledge we are learning can be used day to day.

I used a couple of texts over Spring (one I had used a small section of before) because they were free. I thought there would be more resentment at broken links and imperfect material that I supplemented with notes. On the contrary, students thought the t

I chose a horrible textbook to see if students would be more critically engaged if they knew they had to question and consider everything they learned, even from the “authoritative” voice of our core textbook. I actually think it worked great! They would

“Writing without Teachers” broke my brain as an undergrad. In it, Elbow talks about centering students and removing the idea of the “teacher” from the space, instead focusing on students growing together as a group, and the “teacher” being a gardener or a