As you ramp up for the next semester and ponder ways to get students to read your syllabus, consider some of these techniques. radar, yay, level, heh If you don’t…
Category: design
Thinking Classrooms
Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University, has spent twenty years observing classrooms in pursuit of effective teaching (mostly in K12 classrooms). He has concluded that…
The Peak-End Rule
In 1993 an interesting study run by Daniel Kahneman and other researchers investigated discomfort. Participants submerged one hand in water at 14°C (57.2°F) for sixty seconds and rated the discomfort….
W. Edwards Deming and the Heath Brothers
Management consultant William Edwards Deming is famous for his contributions to quality design and for his management theories. After writing several books (impressively one at age 86 and one at…
Language Matters
It’s almost that time of the year again – time to turn your attention to the next semester. The ritual of updating your course syllabus can be exciting or it…
Two Approaches to Transforming Your Leadership Style
By Aaron Proietti I am wired as a change agent, and I enjoy playing the game of negotiation and influence that is required to change the way organizational systems behave….