"As a college teacher for 30+ years, I have taught students ranging from the best-prepared to those needing remediation. I believe that everyone can learn - with the right motivation and skills. And that's where I come in.
In an effort to understand what techniques successful college students use to study effectively, I did systematic research with colleagues on the subject. We looked at reading more...
"As a college teacher for 30+ years, I have taught students ranging from the best-prepared to those needing remediation. I believe that everyone can learn - with the right motivation and skills. And that's where I come in.
In an effort to understand what techniques successful college students use to study effectively, I did systematic research with colleagues on the subject. We looked at reading, notetaking, and underlining techniques and what clues worked to help students achieve good grades. We published a half-dozen articles on the subject, one of which was selected as 1 of the 27 best articles on the subject over a 30-year period. I took the insights I had learned about successful active learning and put them into two editions of an innovative student study guide integrated into a best-selling college textbook, along with a teacher's manual and a test bank of over 2,200 original questions that incorporated diversity as well as multiple levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Over the years I have worked closely with our student tutoring center to help students improve their test-taking ability.
I have extensive experience teaching students throughout the educational spectrum. I was a teacher of choice for Collegiate Connection students - high school students taking college courses on campus, but I also taught for over a dozen years in freshman learning communities of students needing remediation - who turned out to be significantly more successful than expected. I published research demonstrating that innovations to make my classes more accessible to nontraditional students in fact benefited all students. I have also taught courses for high school teachers on how to incorporate active learning into college-level courses. In recognition of this work, I have been invited to give over 70 presentations on diversity and student success. A dozen sets of my syllabi and course materials have been selected by my national professional organization as models of good pedagogy. I have published 10 professionally-refereed book chapte" less...
Oakland University, Sociology
Michigan State University, Masters
Michigan State University, PhD
