by Leonard Geddes | Aug 15, 2023 | Article
The time has come for students to do a self-evaluation of their academic labor. Believe it or not, students have been in class for about six weeks. If you are on a semester schedule, this means that a third of the semester is already in the books! By this time, each...
by Leonard Geddes | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog Post
As the college semester or term winds down, students will scour their notes to prepare for their exams. But do they have an effective note-taking method? Their system may be useful for capturing information but not good enough to prepare them for tests. Since much of...
by Leonard Geddes | Nov 3, 2022 | Blog Post
Are you a grades educator or an outcomes educator? I discovered that I had changed from a grades educator to an outcome educator over time. While cleaning out several old work boxes, I found some files from twenty years ago. I came across a folder that I labeled...
by Leonard Geddes | Sep 20, 2022 | Blog Post
Have you ever set students up for failure? Well, if you’ve ever advised students to study X number of hours for every hour of class time, then you have set them up for failure. No worries. You didn’t intend to harm them. But by encouraging students to use time to...
by Leonard Geddes | Aug 29, 2022 | Blog Post
Students will begin the 2022–2023 academic year in our post-quarantine world with optimism and excitement to join their peers on campus. But many students will soon struggle as the reality of college work sets in. Their academic success depends on their ability to...