Teaching in Higher Ed

Triumphs and failures – Day 1

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Bonni Stachowiak shares about the triumphs and failures in her first day of teaching this semester.

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Podcast notes

Triumphs and failures of day 1

Failures

Treyvon trip up

Forgotten supplies

Triumphs

  • Mostly kept pace between three sections of the same class
  • Kept my stuff together – cords, etc. Grid it system worked like a champ
  • Experience what my teaching is like, versus me talking about it (while still explaining while we go)
  • Continually working on just-in-time learning/demonstrations, when possible (tapes, SnagIt)

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

[reminder] Share your own failures and triumphs [/reminder]

Closing notes

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Mindset

with Rebecca Campbell

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Rebecca Campbell shares about the power of mindset.

Podcast notes

Mindset

Guest: Dr. Rebecca Campbell

Recommended by Michelle Miller, from episode #026.

Associate Professor of Education and the Director and Department Chair for Academic Transition Programs at Northern Arizona University.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.  – Christopher Robin

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Background on mindset

  • Early introductions
  • Dissertation work on a piece: epistemological beliefs – where knowledge comes from.
  • “You either get it or you don't.”

Growth vs fixed mindset

Isn't about teaching differently, but about framing the conversation differently. – Rebecca Campbell

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Performance barriers

A better way of describing those things holding students back from academic achievement

How to help students achieve more of a growth mindset

  • Normalize help-seeking behavior: supplemental instruction, tutoring, writing centers, office hours, peers
  • Help seeking behavior is a big deal

The shift between high school and college is pretty big. – Rebecca Campbell

… students come and arrive with lots of incoming characteristics. None of these things have to be overcome, in order for them to be successful.

  • How they engage in learning. How they leverage help-seeking behaviors. << That's what defines student success.

These processes can be guided, coached, mentored and taught. – Rebecca Campbell

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When we make the processes explicit, we make effort explicit and we are saying everyone can grow if you engage in the right processes. – Rebecca Campbell

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We can guide students about the process of learning.

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

Rebecca recommends:

Be kind to students. Don't make assumptions. – Rebecca Campbell

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More on performance barriers

Reframing the conversation

Closing notes

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All that is out of our control

with Lee Skallerup Bessette

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Lee Skallerup Bessette joins me to talk about how to deal with and manage when stuff get's out of control in our lives, as well as how to address those situations when it happens to our students.

All that is out of our control

 

Podcast notes

Guest: Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette

  • Faculty Instructional Consultant at the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kentucky
  • Dr. Skallerup on Twitter: @readywriting
  • Dr. Skallerup on Inside Higher Ed

Digital humanities

… the intersection between technology and what technology can help us do in the humanities. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

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  • Big data, distance reading, social networking and network graphs
  • Digitization and archives
  • Making research, primary sources more available
  • Computational linguistics and mapping
  • Media studies

Digital pedagogy

We have unprecedented access to tools, to information, to interfaces, and the question that digital pedagogy attempts to answer is: ‘So what? What do we do with them?' – Lee Skallerup Bessette

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  • EdTech versus digital pedagogy

Often educational technology are almost commercially based, not to say that all of them are. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Lee's digital pedagogy definition   “Making, bending, and breaking. #hilt2015”

Blogs at College Ready Writing on Insidehighered.com

Losing control during a course

  • Decided how to make this work, but learned some lessons along the way
  • Too much focus on “covering” the content
  • Disappointing results in students' un-essay projects

[When things happen outside your control], sometimes you've got to let go of some of the coverage [of course content] in order to accomplish the learning goals. – Lee Skallerup Bassette

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Finding balance

  • Tends to happen in stages/seasons (especially regarding the kid's ages)
  • Husband just got tenure and those demands also needed to be taken into consideration

Blogging was one of the things that I used to try to maintain some sort of balance. It was something I did for me and my own sanity. – Lee Skallerup Bassette

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Students losing control

  • Worked at diverse institutions
  • Had students research the resources available on campus to them during times of struggle
  • Cultural aspects to a death in the family

I saw my role as listening, so that they felt heard, and then guiding them to a place where they could be more effectively helped. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

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Final advice

Sometimes it's ok to let go of some of the content. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

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Recommendations

Lee recommends:

Cathy Davidson's blog post – Handicapped by being underimpaired: Teaching with Equality at the Core .

Note: Cathy was a Teaching in Higher Ed guest on episode #028

Perhaps the worst people to teach writing are the best writers. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

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Bonni recommends:

Critical Digital Pedagogy Resources and Tools by Andrea Rehn

Lee inspires us for the start to the academic year:

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. And give your students the benefit of the doubt right from the start. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

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Closing notes

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Practical instructional design

with Edward O'Neill

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Edward Oneill joins me to talk about practical instructional design.

Podcast notes

Practical instructional design

Guest

Edward Oneill, Senior instructional designer at Yale.

Teach Better Podcast

I know a little bit about a lot of things. – Edward Oneill (and also Diana Krall, etc.)

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What Edward's clients often need

  • intuitively-appealing ways of conceptualizing the learning process
  • a survey of the relevant tools & which fit their needs & capacities

Edward's special skill

…finding the points in the learning process where assessment and evaluation can be woven in seamlessly

Design approach of Edward's early courses

Successes

  • Made sure students had to do something every week
  • Ensured consistent deadlines
  • Weekly messages, creatively introducing them to that week

Failures

  • Disconnected topics, no second chances

You don't learn anything by doing it once. – Edward Oneill

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  • Not opportunities for practice

I wanted to see it as the students' fault. It's so hard to get out of that [mindset]. – Edward Oneill

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Biggest challenges in our teaching

  • We know our content, but we don't realize how tightly packed our knowledge is…
  • Edward's blog post about the Five stages of teaching
  • Peter Newbury – prior Teaching in Higher Ed guest on episode #053 shared about recall / connections

Rehearsal and elaboration

It's about stepping away from the center and helping [students] communicate with each other. – Edward Oneill

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Methods for incorporating assessment and evaluation into the design of courses

  • Have shorter/smaller forms of assessment that aren't necessarily graded 100% of the time
  • Use their performance as your own assessment

Bonni shares about teaching with Ellen's Heads Up iPad game

Jeopardy game as form of reinforcement

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

Parker Palmer quote

I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy. When my students and I discover uncharted territory to explore, when the pathway out of a thicket opens up before us, when our experience is illumined by the lightning-life of the mind—then teaching is the finest work I know. – Parker Palmer

Edward comments:

There is a special privilege in people letting you help them grow and change. – Edward Oneill

Edward recommends:

On Becoming a Person, by Carl Rogers

As a teacher, I need to see you as a unique learner. If I really try to understand you and try to help you grow, it is not so much about information transfer; it is a more humane kind of relationship. – Edward Oneill

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When you're passionate about teaching and you focus on it and you try to improve – you do. – Edward Oneill

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Closing notes

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The terror of teaching

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Bonni Stachowiak shares some of her fears about teaching and ways that she often attempts to resolve them.

Podcast Notes

The Skillful Teacher, by Stephen Brookfield

Common fears

  • Quantity over quality
  • Confusion
  • Lacking balance
  • Being inadequate

Attempts to resolve fears

Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less, by Greg McKeown

  • Have evidence to the contrary (letters, emails, etc.)

Recommendations

Tommy Emmanuel's Tall Fidler

Closing notes

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