Deandra Little Authentic Assignments on episode 337 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Category/tags: Assessment and grading.
A really good assignment, which is also a really good assessment, also teaches you something.
-Deandra Little
Thinking about the purpose also helps you talk about meaning.
-Deandra Little
Matthew Paolucci Callahan discusses equity in STEM on episode 336 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
I think that for anybody who wants to learn, if they work hard enough, and if the instructor is clear enough, they can rise to their highest level.
-Matthew Paolucci Callahan
Students in STEM receive bias from other students.
-Matthew Paolucci Callahan
We meet students at the undergraduate level to teach about gender bias and sexual harassment early in their career.
-Matthew Paolucci Callahan
Mays Imad discusses trauma-informed teaching and learning on episode 335 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
I am able to recognize when they are triggered and when they feel disengaged. I also am able to recognize it in myself. We can’t give what we don’t have.
-Mays Imad
I want to acknowledge that we can heal from trauma.
-Mays Imad
My goal is to engage students and help them feel empowered and liberated.
-Mays Imad
We are not just thinking machines; we are feeling machines capable of thinking.
-Mays Imad
Andrew Ishak talks about Learn, Teach… and Satirize with Video on episode 334 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
You’re aware of the audience; you’re aware of the students.
-Andrew Ishak
Know what key points you need to hit. Be aware of the time and be aware of your audience.
-Andrew Ishak
I have 3 or 4 main points I want to hit with some notes underneath each. If I don’t get to some of the notes on some of them, that’s fine. It’s all about hitting the key points.
-Andrew Ishak
Have a backup plan.
-Andrew Ishak
Heloise Stevance shares how to foster curiosity in STEM and (other disciplines) on episode 333 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Some of the most fundamental questions you can ask are the hardest to answer and explain in a concise way.
-Héloïse Stevance
You captivate them with the things that are fun… because learning is fun.
-Héloïse Stevance
Good outreach doesn’t make you sound clever. It makes the audience feel smart.
-Héloïse Stevance
Failure is just part of the process. It is an ongoing part and never really goes away.
-Héloïse Stevance
Héloïse’s response to a young woman’s question about maths
5 Crazy Facts About Failed Stars (brown dwarfs)
Science communication (#scicomm) on Wikipedia
Episode 215 with Bryan Dewsbury: Teaching as an Act of Social Justice and Equity
James Lang shares about his new book, Distracted, on episode 331 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
One of the main ideas of the book is to try to convince people that attention is something that we should value in education and not take for granted.
-James Lang
We are all experiencing lots of challenging issues right now in our lives.
-James Lang
One of the major things I argue in the book is thinking about the structure of the class.
-James Lang
Learning does not happen without attention.
-James Lang
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver, Sometimes
Peter Felten and Leo Lambert talk about their new book Relationship-Rich Education on episode 331 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
We don’t use relational language to talk about how to go to college. And we need to do that.
-Leo Lambert
Relationships are high stakes for students both in college and after college.
-Leo Lambert
Of all the places on college campuses where relationships take hold, the classroom is still the most important place.
-Leo Lambert
They’re not asking us to solve all their problems, they just want to be seen as humans.
-Peter Felten
Paul Eaton shares about transformative inclusion on episode 330 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
There are times where you can be more real with students.
-Paul Eaton
It is hard to get people to think outside of just individual behaviors.
-Paul Eaton
We spend way too much time focusing on the individual acts and not enough time focusing on the system. We have got to fix the system and that is much harder work.
-Paul Eaton
Known and Strange Things, by Teju Cole
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, by Jay Timothy Dolmage
Episode 228: How to Create Engaging Online Classes with Laura Gibbs
Sheila MacNeill shares about time, space, and place on episode 329 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
We need to rethink our notion of time..
-Sheila MacNeill
We need to rethink and consider when and how and why we are in different places at different times.
-Sheila MacNeill
Chris Friend discusses teaching as listening on episode 328 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
We don’t teach content, we teach the students who are in the room.
-Chris Friend
Planning less has always paid off for me.
-Chris Friend
This semester’s classes amaze me with how flexible and sympathetic students are.
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Chris Friend
David Rhoads discusses common misconceptions about Hyflex on episode 327 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Every person that does Hyflex has a unique way of doing it.
-David Rhoads
Lisa Burgess, Idelisa Ayala, & Vanessa Hormann discuss creatively teaching biology on episode 326 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
What do we want our students to walk away with?
-Lisa Burgess
We tend to do a lot of social media interaction. At the end of each lab we have hashtags.
-Vanessa Hormann
You really have to think about the student’s point of view.
-Vanessa Hormann
Bonni Stachowiak shares about Digital Pedagogy Lab Reprised on episode 325 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Connect with others and ask questions. Be open.
-Dustin
Through constraint comes creativity.
-Christina
Provide as much consistency and as much grounding that you can for your students because there is so much unknown outside of your classroom.
-Sylvia
Episode 320 with Jesse Stommel: How to be together in learning online
Dan Levy talks about his book, Teaching Effectively with Zoom on episode 324 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Virtual provides a wider range of ways in which our students can engage in our classrooms.
-Dan Levy
In a virtual classroom students can share their work much more easily.
-Dan Levy
Renea Brathwaite shares about his experience of “becoming a minority” on episode 323 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Where you start is not where you will end up.
-Renea Brathwaite
My core identity was formed and reinforced with value systems that valued me.
-Renea Brathwaite
Until that anger gets deeply seeded in a common humanity, it will just be anger and it becomes misplaced.
-Renea Brathwaite
“Hope has two beautiful daughters: Anger at the way things are and courage to act so that things don’t stay the same”
Shauntae Brown White discusses approaches for helping students to thrive in their learning on episode 322 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
I never want to step into a classroom and not have a plan.
-Shauntae Brown White
Students appreciate someone saying “I don’t know.”
-Shauntae Brown White
I just want to do things with excellence.
-Shauntae Brown White
Josef Woldense discusses the elements of storytelling: audience, path, and destination on episode 321 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Storytelling is a technology that we, as humans, have evolved.
-Josef Woldense
The question becomes how can I have you buy into what I am doing?
-Josef Woldense
Jesse Stommel talks about how to be together in learning online on episode 320 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
It is really important for us to pause as human beings and look at the words we are using and ask ourselves what is actually going on.
-Jesse Stommel
Resilience comes from a place of privilege.
-Jesse Stommel
Marlo Goldstein Hode discusses barriers to inclusion in our teaching and approaches to embrace a diverse classroom on episode 319 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Being mindful of diversity and inclusion in an online environment is equally as important as it is in the classroom.
-Marlo Goldstein Hode
Everybody has implicit biases.
-Marlo Goldstein Hode
Our unconscious biases can be overridden, but they can’t be overwritten
-Marlo Goldstein Hode
Ainissa Ramirez shares about her new book, The Alchemy of Us, on episode 318 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
It’s just these little things that add up and eventually they completely dispirit a person.
-Ainissa Ramirez
Professors and teachers have a profound impact on people’s lives.
-Ainissa Ramirez
If we can learn from the past and see our reflection, we can make decisions about our present and make better decisions about our future.
-Ainissa Ramirez
It’s a burden to have to be perfect.
-Ainissa Ramirez