Mays Imad shares how she (and others) is rethinking cricital thinking on episode 410 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
It was so important for me to make my own decisions and come to my own conclusions.
-Mays Imad
Thinking has an affective component.
-Mays Imad
Our rational thinking can be hijacked when we are under the influence of fear.
-Mays Imad
Antija Allen and Justin Stewart talk about their book, We’re Not Ok: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies, on episode 409 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Your voice is important. Your individuality is important. Your presence is important.
-Justin Stewart
We’re not ok but we’re not always comfortable telling people we’re not ok.
-Antija Allen
I don’t want my students to be shocked that I am black and that I am teaching them.
-Antija Allen
A lot of people don’t know what we are going through as black faculty because we are so resilient.
-Antija Allen
Rebecca Pope-Ruark talks about her book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, on episode 408 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
There is a lot of shame attached to a diagnosis of burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Burnout is not something we talk about in higher education.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
We all know someone who is burned out but we don’t necessarily know that they are because it is not talked about.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
There is a stigma of talking about burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Going through burnout doesn’t mean you are bad academic.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Perfection is a comparison disease.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
We will never be perfect. There is no such thing as perfect.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Higher ed will take as much as you give it.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
People are grieving and hurting.
-Chinasa Elue
Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now.
-Chinasa Elue
Language is power.
-Laura Howard
We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve.
-Chinasa Elue
Educational developers are caregivers.
-Este Jordan
The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity.
-Chinasa Elue
People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard.
-Chinasa Elue
We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces.
-Chinasa Elue
It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.
-Chinasa Elue
Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
People are used to using tags as a way to filter information.
-Kevin Kelly
Creating a checklist in advance creates a lower cognitive load for you as an instructor to remember all of these different tasks.
-Kevin Kelly
We can give prompts where students can be successful learners no matter what modality they are in.
-Kevin Kelly
The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.
-Kevin Kelly