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How to Write a Syllabus

…syllabus. Although this doesn’t guarantee that they read the syllabus, it may provide you with some legal protection should a student or parent appeal something later on. Course Syllabus Template If you want to get your syllabus done quickly, my Syllabus Template will help you knock it out in no time. It includes an editable Microsoft Word template using the same style shown in the above screenshots, my own 6-page sample syllabus that can help you envision and craft your finished product, and a Syllabus Acceptance Form you can use to collect student signatures acknowledging receipt. There’s a lot more…

Episode 65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction

…is to talk to your colleagues, your colleagues, especially if you have never taught before. Chances are the program head or the chair will give you the syllabus of the previous person that’s taught the course, or they may get to put you in touch with a professor that is teaching the same section as you. I would say definitely get in touch with that professor, with one of your colleagues that’s teaching that same course or even someone teaching within the same program and talk to them, talk about what is your typical student in terms of demographics. Chances…

Episode 261 Transcript

…many cases, and the top three that I share that I’ve personally used to have kind of run studies to understand better have been expert maps, note-taking, and formative assessments. And kind of walking through those, what expert maps is. I’m sure anyone listening could kind of — here, I go deep, I’m very detail oriented, and I like knowing, and I end up going, phew. There’s just a lot that comes out. So the expert map’s kind of my way to kind of stick to the syllabus and say, try to push myself to say, what do people really…

Managing Misbehavior in the College Classroom

…to do about it. Do you know of any resources that can help me deal with this issue? I feel you, friend. I taught at the college level for four years, and though most of my classes went well, I did have some students whose behavior made me think, Seriously? You’re in college? Coming from a middle school environment, I expected behavior to be a non-issue at the college level, so going in, I didn’t even think to address behavior in my course syllabus. That was a mistake: Many college students still need lots of guidance about appropriate and respectful behavior…

Episode 12: How Your Nonverbals Impact Your Teaching

…of any community is how do we get along together. We’re diverse. Some of us are cranky, some of us are not, introverted, extroverted. Okay, so let’s set up some rules. Now here’s the way I normally — And I just set up in the syllabus a normal set of behaviors which I feel are very important. With some experience, you’re an experienced person hopefully and you say “To get this….Over the past few years I noticed that these rules are really important to get progress, again for us to move on and get progress against the content. Here’s what…

Episode 61: Seven Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners

…really have to patiently sit down with them to update the planner often. GONZALEZ: Got it. So there needs to be … Now I’m seeing that theme kind of running through all of these, is that there needs to be regular check-ups on these things. PERLER: Yes. GONZALEZ: Got it. PERLER: And you generally want to check the teacher website. You want to check the syllabus, if it’s a class that has a syllabus. And as far as speaking to teachers is concerned, I sit in a lot of IEP, 504, RtI meetings, and there is a huge, huge difference…

Episode 262 Transcript

…puzzle out of it. This is always my Day 1 lesson because on Day 1, I want my students doing what we’re going to be doing all year in class. I don’t want to be going over the rules in the syllabus. I want them to have a taste of what the class is going to be like. So I do this lesson. And I’ve used several poems in the past, but typically I use “Good Bones” By Maggie Smith. And what this lesson does is so you take a poem. I remove key words and phrases from the poem,…

Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

…turns in work that is significantly better (or different) than their evidence of explainability, it is not necessarily evidence of cheating. However, it is evidence that the student doesn’t understand the work they’ve done. This can serve as a catalyst to ask the student to re-engage in the original task to ensure their evidence reflects their actual understanding. 4.7 Frame integrity as the basis of your partnership for effective teaching and learning. Regardless of your school’s academic integrity policy, consider how a statement like the one below in your syllabus (Frontier, 2025) could clarify the importance of integrity as the…

EduTip 1: Don’t make reading and listening compete.

Sponsored by Reading Progress in Teams. Watch a video version of this EduTip on Instagram. This is a mistake I see so many teachers, speakers, and other presenters make, and it’s so easy to fix! Here’s the problem: We give our students something to read—it might be a handout, a syllabus, a brand-new assignment, a PowerPoint slide, a website—you get the idea. And ostensibly we want them to read the thing. But then we start talking. And some of us talk and talk and never stop, the whole time these poor kids are supposed to be reading the thing we just…