Telling my students why I’m doing what I’m doing

Examined syllabi for introductory courses in hydrology The titles, topics, and approaches to assessment varied widely across courses Found limited consensus in how hydrology courses are taught a...

The war for attention is real, can extra credit power help?

Students bring the heat in meme competition.

You don't need any magical special sauce...

Three semesters of reflections say...

Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

Prediction as a learning enhancer

No one ever has opinions about exams.

The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon

What is active learning? What is effective teaching?

Discussions about curricular strategies and more from a class on teaching college

Writing my way through teaching a class on teaching

We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...

Four things...

Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.

Peer teaching is powerful!

How I teach students to code along with disciplinary material

Some ideas for assessments that help students learn

normalizing errors, growth mindset, stereotype threat....

setting up to run a class

More exciting that is sounds!

Fun, scary, and it works!

It helps you, it helps learning...

I don't think so!

A Canvas "hack"?

Why do students leave things blank? How can we help?

The aggregate length of flowing streams in a drainage network lengthens and shortens as landscapes become wetter and drier. However, direct measurements of stream network variability have been limited...

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