Critical thinking is the most valuable skill a college student can develop
Category Archives: Teaching Strategy
I’ve described myself before on this blog as a “new-experience junkie,” which can prove both exciting and frustrating. It’s exciting because each new experience teaches me something I didn’t know before, and as the title of my site suggests, that’s basically what I live for. On the other hand, this tendency to search out new […]
Here’s one thing I learned this semester: applying a theme to a required composition course makes the course more enjoyable for my students AND for me. It turns out that “The Pursuit of Happiness” is a topic that matters to all of us. Because really, who doesn’t want to be happy? One of my students, […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” –Declaration of Independence, 1776 What did the framers of the Declaration of Independence intend when they declared “the pursuit of […]
