Teaching in Higher Ed

Make Learning Visible with ePortfolios with Lynn Meade

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Lynn Meade uncovers how to make learning visible with portfolios on episode 612 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Quotes from the episode

Anytime I teach portfolios, it's really big that we talk about audience and purpose. Who is your audience and what is your purpose?

An ePortfolio is basically a curated collection of student work. It includes reflection, and it's usually across the college experience.
-Lynn Meade

Anytime I teach portfolios, it's really big that we talk about audience and purpose. Who is your audience and what is your purpose?
-Lynn Meade

There's something particularly lovely about seeing student or faculty members' written comments about my work. Both the critiques and those comments that build me up, and how very powerful they are, and how much they mean to me.
-Lynn Meade

It's not about the tech. The most important thing is, am I writing? Am I able to think about myself? Am I able to reflect about myself?
-Lynn Meade

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Fostering Peace, Joy, and Community in Teaching and Leading, with Danny Mann

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Danny Mann shares about fostering peace, joy, and community in teaching and leading on episode 611 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Great teaching, and I think great life, is this adaptive, responsive thing, pulling out the bugs or getting things back in balance.

Great teaching, and I think great life, is this adaptive, responsive thing, pulling out the bugs or getting things back in balance.
-Danny Mann

Peace and joy are really interrelated, and I gravitated a lot towards these, as I spent time studying and practicing mindfulness practices.
-Danny Mann

If you discover your why, you could basically feel much more energized and joyful about what you do, if you align your life with that.
-Danny Mann

Giving students space to speak and share ups and downs. So the ironic leading by listening.
-Danny Mann

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Big and Small Experiments in Teaching and Learning with Mike Cross

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Mike Cross shares about his experiments (big and small) in teaching and learning on episode 610 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The reason I did it is because I just wanted to better understand what my students were going through.

The reason I did it is because I just wanted to better understand what my students were going through.
-Mike Cross

I love that, that idea of tiny experiments. I think that that is absolutely critical because we're all so busy.
-Mike Cross

Anytime you can put yourself in someone else's shoes, it makes you a better person, right? Whether that's a better teacher, a better spouse, a better friend, a better citizen, anything.
-Mike Cross

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Pedagogical Wellness and the Conditions for Flourishing with Theresa Duong

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Theresa Duong on episode 609 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Pedagogy, the formal definition in my mind, is this art and science of teaching and learning.

“All we're really trying to do is create these conditions that can help our students flourish and thrive within our classrooms while maintaining the rigor of our work.”
– Theresa Duong

“I felt like I could thrive in my PhD program because I had these people who kept pushing me to go and kept pushing me to take care of myself.”
– Theresa Duong

“Pedagogy, the formal definition in my mind, is this art and science of teaching and learning.”
– Theresa Duong

“To me, wellness is really about thriving and flourishing in the work that you're doing.”
– Theresa Duong

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Overcoming the Curse of Expertise and Other Ways to Be Inclusive in Our Teaching with Sheila Tabanli

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Sheila Tabanli shares ways to overcome the curse of expertise and other ways to be inclusive in our teaching on episode 608 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Quotes from the episode

"I suggest, sign up to a course that you have no idea, and then we'll talk later. In other words, feel what it means to be a novice

“I suggest, sign up to a course that you have no idea, and then we'll talk later. In other words, feel what it means to be a novice.”
– Sheila Tabanli

“An expert in a field doesn't necessarily mean they will be able to effectively teach that content.”
– Sheila Tabanli

“There are differences between how experts and novices look at this content.”
– Sheila Tabanli

“We can still slow down. We can still show how an expert solves a math problem without sacrificing from the rigor or the content.”
– Sheila Tabanli

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