Teaching in Higher Ed

Equip Students to Dialog Across Differences Using an AI Guide

with Nicholas DiBella & Simon Cullen

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Simon Cullen and Nicholas DiBella discuss how to equip students to dialog across differences using an AI Guide they’ve created on episode 560 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

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Most of my students have not heard cogent arguments on the other side of whatever their own position is because they've been so siloed.
-Simon Cullen

In every one of these classes the point is to try and confront students with the strongest arguments I can find, ideally for the thing they don't believe.
-Simon Cullen

The first thing they hear from me is if you wish to avoid the risk of being offended, then you should probably not be taking this class.
-Simon Cullen

In philosophy, we always embrace disagreement.
-Nicholas DiBella

We have designed the guide to be as neutral as possible.
-Nicholas DiBella

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Cultivating Critical Teaching Behaviors

with Claudia Cornejo Happel & Lauren Barbeau

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Lauren Barbeau + Claudia Cornejo Happel discuss how to cultivate critical teaching behaviors on episode 559 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Being a good teacher or a good researcher is not something you're born with. It's something you learn. It's something you can get better at.

Being a good teacher or a good researcher is not something you're born with. It's something you learn. It's something you can get better at.
-Lauren Barbeau

Teaching doesn't fall into nice, neat color coded boxes. We need something that represents the complexity and the messiness and the way that behaviors overlap and might fall into more than one category.
-Lauren Barbeau

If we can't reflect on our teaching, we can't identify our strengths to start leveraging them, to start working on them.
-Lauren Barbeau

If you're looking for an entry point into critical teaching behaviors, start by reflecting on your teaching and take a look at the materials we've provided to help you do that.
-Lauren Barbeau

Be kind to yourself because some semesters are harder than others.
-Lauren Barbeau

It all comes back to caring about students, being transparent about what we're doing in the classroom, explaining our purpose, and involving them in the conversation that is the learning together in the classroom.
-Claudia Cornejo Happel

While there's no one thing that is more difficult than another, it really helps us to find a behavior that resonates with us and that we can use as a lens to think about our teaching more holistically.
-Claudia Cornejo Happel

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How to Learn Students’ Names

with Michelle Miller

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Michelle Miller shares about her book, A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It's Hard, How You Can, on episode 558 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The test isn't on how well you can recognize the name. The test is on how well you can say the names. That's what you need need to practice doing.

I think a lot of us kinda simmer in this little mindset of, everybody else can do this and I can't.
-Michelle Miller

We’ve all heard the old saying it’s the sweetest sound that anybody ever hears their own name. It elevates the conversation differently to be able to use names.
-Michelle Miller

The test isn't on how well you can recognize the name. The test is on how well you can say the names. That's what you need need to practice doing.
-Michelle Miller

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Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know

with Kent Kauffman

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Kent Kauffman shares about his book, Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know, on episode 557 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Students in public institutions have academic freedom too.

Leave the things that you have full discretion on out of a syllabus. Put those things that allow you to show to your students that you care about clarity into a syllabus.
-Kent Kauffman

What have courts that have authority in your jurisdiction or the supreme court said about the rights faculty have in public institutions with academic freedom?
-Kent Kauffman

Students in public institutions have academic freedom too.
-Kent Kauffman

Do my teaching materials belong to me, or do they belong to my employer?
-Kent Kauffman

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Socially Just Open Education and Black Feminist Pedagogy

with Jasmine Roberts-Crews

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Jasmine Roberts-Crews shares about socially just open education and Black feminist pedagogy on episode 556 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

"What can we learn from the critical work of Black women through their lived experiences?"

I'm focusing on Black women in particular here because there is a history among some Black women with rejecting the term feminism because there is this idea that feminism is for white women.
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

What can we learn from the critical work of Black women through their lived experiences?
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

We're kind of going away from or rejecting this idea that assignments are transactional.
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

Agency, autonomy, that's at the center of it.
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

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