La Lopa Teaching and Learning Initiative

This blog will be updated from time to time by Dr. Mick La Lopa, who was a founding member of the Foodservice Educators Network International, the Center for Advancement of Foodservice Education, and Foodservice Educators Learning Community. He is an associate professor in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

You Got SMERFED

In the early days of teaching my sales class, I had students take four team-based exam that had 225 questions to be completed in 1 hour a...

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Listen and Learn to be a Better Teacher

Teaching is not what I do for a paycheck; it defines who I am as a professor. That is why I conduct a regular and ongoing reflection on the...

Saturday, November 17, 2012

New Teaching and Learning Initiative

I want to say thanks to those of you who have followed the blog over the past four years. Now that FELC is no more I am pleased to announ...

Monday, June 18, 2012

Hell's Kitchen

Well, sorry for not posting in so long. I was on a great 8 day winery tour of northern Italy which I will begin to share this week once I g...

Friday, June 1, 2012

Learning Styles Debunked

Perhaps you have heard of Daniel Willingham on your own or in some of my posts over the years. He wrote a great book, "Why Students Do...

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