Teaching in Higher Ed

Everyday Acts of Facilitation with Beth Cougler Blom

with Beth Cougler Blom

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Beth Cougler Blom on how teaching and facilitation skills are built in life’s ordinary moments — noticing, saying hello first, and staying curious.

Quotes from the episode


When you love what you do, you see it everywhere.

When you love what you do, you see it everywhere.
-Beth Cougler Blom

I’m here in Canada, and I’m on the West Coast, and there’s so many people learning here all the time about how to be living and working in a diverse community.
-Beth Cougler Blom

If we hone our noticing skills, then we can notice what’s going on with ourselves when we’re teaching.
-Beth Cougler Blom

When I make a mistake, often, I’ll tell the group, because that’s how we all learn too.
-Beth Cougler Blom

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Fostering Skills for Civic Life with Bethany Morrison

with Bethany N. Morrison

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Bethany Morrison shares civic professionalism and how disciplinary identity shapes civic discourse on episode 632 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


Democracy needs to be born every generation. We can't just assume it... Every generation, we have to kind of rebirth it, and it has to happen in our schools.

Democracy needs to be born every generation. We can’t just assume it… Every generation, we have to kind of rebirth it, and it has to happen in our schools.
-Bethany Morrison

One of the principles that we often recommend is setting some community discussion guidelines, talking together as a classroom community about how we want things to go when those hot moments come up later.
-Bethany Morrison

Not saying anything has meaning too. So if you don’t say anything, you are making a decision, and students are going to read that to mean it was okay.
-Bethany Morrison

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A Faculty Guide to Teaching With Video with Jeff Kim

with Jeff Kim

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Jeff Kim shares how faculty can use video in our teaching and make it sustainable on episode 631 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


You raise what you praise. So through these vlogs, you’ll see me not complaining, but actually praising a lot.
-Jeff Kim

Sometimes people can feel a little bit wary about being on social media; they know that the way that I’m going to produce the video is going to be in such a way that’s uplifting.
-Jeff Kim

A vision that I have for my channel is helping students to find out what they’re good at so that they can do good with it.
-Jeff Kim

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Feedback, Voice, and AI in the Writing Classroom with Anna Mills

with Anna Mills

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Anna Mills shares Peer and AI Review and Reflection, plus a layered approach to writing feedback on episode 630 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


AI companies should be designing so that their agents don't go in and say, "I'm a student taking a quiz."

My sense of the value of feedback has not changed. It’s more important than ever, more meaningful than ever, when we do have that connection through words.
-Anna Mills

I think overall I’ve advocated for more sort of technical support for transparency about what is AI and what is not.
-Anna Mills

Students preferred both the peer and the AI feedback. They did not want one or the other.
-Anna Mills

AI companies should be designing so that their agents don’t go in and say, “I’m a student taking a quiz.”
-Anna Mills

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The Story of Grades with Luke Green

with Luke Green

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Luke Green uses the Santa Claus story to rethink what grades measure and the case for ungrading on episode 629 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


What are grades, and what purpose do we want them to serve?

Each student at some point throughout their academic career is going to receive a grade, receive some sort of an assessment that is going to fundamentally alter how they feel about the classroom.
-Luke Green

The narrative that we sell to our kids is that these gifts are earned. The metric is, those who are good children or better children, you receive more.
-Luke Green

What are grades, and what purpose do we want them to serve?
-Luke Green

Usually, it’s a proxy of understanding a student’s overall experience. And GPA is even worse, because you’re putting all of your course grades into a meat grinder and spitting out one number.
-Luke Green

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