Week 7: You are Valdosta State to our students For me, this is nice to think, but we are a team. And, even though I have been at Valdosta State University since 1999, I feel like a small part of Valdosta State University. I am a Professor in a program in a college in a […]

I just finished teaching a class and it seems that the new students are coming together as a class—maybe even as a team? I’ve never thought in terms of a team.  What is a team?  I looked it up in dictionary.com and I like the second definition best “a number of persons associated in some […]

The theme for Week 2 was Connect our students with activities, and the theme for Week 3 was Connect our students to resources.  I see Week 5-Encourage Experiential Opportunities as being similar to these, but different.  Similar in that it involves more than just reading books and articles, and more than just lectures-readings and lectures […]

Week 4: Understand the challenge of the first grades As I write this, I am thinking I don’t need to be writing this, I need to be posting in my course shells and grading.  Tonight MSW students from two classes I teach attended and facilitated groups in VSU’s Readers’ theater for new students living in […]