Jeff Anderson Math Blog (JAMB) Posts

I dedicate my working life to empowering learners. My top-level professional goal is to use antiracist learning science to help people thrive. One way I work to realize my goal is to maintain a teaching blog dedicated to college educators. I have a strong interest in developing a community around college teaching. I hope to inspire, encourage, and empower any reader who has a strong interest in building a career in college education and a focus on student success.

With this in mind, I have a few goals in my writing on my teaching blog:

  1. Guide undergraduate and graduate students who want to learn more about building a career in college teaching.

  2. Help readers develop and expand their teaching skills.

  3. Stand in solidarity with readers who pursue life-long professional growth and development.

Throughout my writing, I put a special focus on community colleges since these institutions are the premier locations for student learning. Community colleges often offer students a better educational experience inside the classroom at a substantially lower cost compared with most 4-year colleges and universities. Below are the articles I’ve written on my teaching blog.

2024 JAMB Posts

2023 JAMB Posts

  1. I invite you to support my work (Published: Friday 12/22/2023)

  2. What are my current grading policies? (Published: Monday 9/11/2023)

  3. A Hippocratic Oath for Teachers: First Do No Harm (Published: Friday 6/23/2023)

  4. My anti-racist reading list (Published: Tuesday 5/5/2023)

  5. How do my students get feedback on their work? (Published: Tuesday 5/2/2023)

  6. How do I structure my classes for group learning? (Published: Tuesday 5/2/2023)

  7. How do I structure my classes for individual learning? (Published: Tuesday 4/18/2023)

  8. What are my current grading practices? (Published: Tuesday 4/18/2023)

  9. I am ready to accept help for my content creation projects (Published: Thursday 3/30/2023)

  10. My content creation policies with no required paywall (Published: Tuesday 3/28/2023)

  11. Community colleges provide the highest value per dollar (Published: Tuesday 3/28/2023)

  12. My financial plan for content creation (Published: Monday 3/27/2023)

  13. How I request a room change to ensure my students engage in active learning (Published: Monday 3/27/2023)

  14. The diverse roles that grades play to effect teaching and learning in college STEM classrooms (Published: Saturday 3/18/2023)

  15. Jeff Anderson's How to Become a Strategic Deep Learner Project (Published: Friday 3/17/2023)

  16. Five research-based, learner-centered learning objectives for college students (Published: Wednesday 3/15/2023)

  17. How do we teach about race in college STEM classes? (Published: Wednesday 3/15/2023)

  18. How to learn mathematics at the deepest and highest levels (Published: Friday 3/10/2023)

  19. A Conversation about Alternative Assessment (with Dr. Katherine Stevenson and Jeff Anderson) (Published: Friday 3/10/2023)

  20. Jeff Anderson's Applied Linear Algebra Textbook Project (Published: Wednesday 3/8/2023)

  21. ALAF Update: Draft Table of Contents (Published: Wednesday 3/8/2023)

  22. ALAF Update: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling, v1 (Published: Tuesday 3/7/2023)

  23. Advanced workshop on ungrading in college math classes (Published: Saturday 1/21/2023)

  24. Ungrading and Meta-Learning activities (email to prepare for 1/21/2023 event) (Published: Saturday 1/21/2023)

  25. My first welcome email in winter quarter 2023 (Published: Monday 1/2/2023)

2022 JAMB Posts

  1. 40+ books to enhance and deepen your college education (Published: Tuesday 12/13/2022)

  2. Some research behind my push to re-imagine college math education (Published: Friday 12/2/2022)

  3. Ungrading in college math classes (Published: Friday 12/2/2022)

  4. My Dream Binder: How I Use the Horizons of Focus Model (Published: Monday 11/7/2022)

  5. Foothill College: Create a Video Production PDL Project (Published: Wednesday 11/2/2022)

  6. Let's Re-Imagine Undergraduate Math Education (Published: Wednesday 11/2/2022)

  7. Educational Recording Studio Equipment (Published: Wednesday 10/19/2022)

  8. UMOJA-Puente Scholarship Workshops 2022 (Published: Friday 10/14/2022)

  9. Find Deep Learning Spaces (Published: Monday 10/3/2022)

  10. Dialogic Peer-to-Peer Learning: Think-Pair-Share (Published: Wednesday 9/28/2022)

  11. Explore Your Purpose (Think-Pair-Share Activity) (Published: Tuesday 9/27/2022)

  12. Think-Pair-Share Activities (Published: Monday 9/26/2022)

  13. Advanced access to assignment 1 in fall 2022 (Published: Wednesday 9/21/2022)

  14. My first welcome email in fall 2022 (Published: Wednesday 9/21/2022)

  15. UNgrading in action: Lessons from spring 2022 (Published: Wednesday 6/29/2022)

  16. My Favorite Financial Habits (Published: Thursday 6/23/2022)

  17. More Linear Algebra Please (Published: Wednesday 5/11/2022)

  18. Make Eigenvalues Resonate : SIMIODE Expo 2022 (Published: Thursday 2/10/2022)

  19. Jeff Anderson's Ungrading Project (Published: Sunday 1/30/2022)

  20. My students are smarter, cooler, and more powerful than I am! That's how it should be. (Published: Wednesday 1/12/2022)

  21. Essential UNgrading reading lists (Published: Sunday 1/2/2022)

2021 JAMB Posts

2020 (and before) JAMB Posts