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Exploring the Reasons Students Don’t Engage with Instructors to Improve Performance “I was too embarrassed. He would think I was stupid,” replied my private tutoring client. This was her only response to why she did not meet with her professor…
First, a few questions: How many of these abbreviations do you know? SoTL DBER IUSE CAPER Where do most students in the USA take entry-level anatomy and physiology? The answer the first question will be at the end, but it’s…
It’s likely that at this point I do not need to convince most of you that active learning can be highly beneficial to student learning. There is a multitude of resources, including HAPS Educator articles, which discuss successful active learning…
Muscles and bones, bones and muscles. How many times have my students learned the deltoid tuberosity in the bone unit, only to complain that they have to learn all these bone names as part of their muscle attachments?! Many of…
The HAPS Discussion group (also known as HAPS-L and before that as “the listserv”) is the place where the most interesting conversations in A&P are happening. This discussion group has hundreds of members, is very active, and has often features amazingly high…
Before last fall, when I would start to plan out my first day of A&P, I always greatly underestimated the time it would take to go over the syllabus, class expectations, and introductions. Typically, I would plan all those activities…
Consider this post an invitation to submit classroom activities for possible publication in a special issue of the HAPS Educator! My boss, Robin, and I were talking one day about our best classroom activities. “Do you have anything that’s a…
Since 2003 HAPS members have been sharing teaching tips with each other through HAPS publications. Over the years these teaching tips were archived primarily in whole-publication pdf files of the HAPS Educator. While it was always exciting to see the…
Each year Thieme supports great teaching by supporting one of the largest scholarships that HAPS awards. This is always a very difficult award to give, because HAPS is full of amazing educators. This year’s winner was also the 2017 Conference…
With the support of Wiley, the Gail Jenkins Award recognizes an A&P instructor who inspires students and colleagues alike. This year the winner was first-time conference attendee Richelle Monaghan. You can read more about Richelle below. Richelle Monaghan joined…