John Warner shares about his new book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, on episode 233 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Declaring students defective is kind of a dead end.
—John Warner
We know what to do — we’re just not doing it.
—John Warner
If you don’t target somebody, you’re not targeting anybody.
—John Warner
Kimberly L. Mitchell discusses her book, Experience Inquiry, on episode 232 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Inquiry is getting the students to do a lot of the question asking.
—Kimberly L. Mitchell
Making mistakes is an integral part of curiosity.
—Kimberly L. Mitchell
How do we create authentic curiosity in these places called schools?
—Kimberly L. Mitchell
Josh Eyler shares about his book How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching on episode 231 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Part of the purpose of college is to help students develop the skills to ask really great questions.
—Josh Eyler
People are conditioned to fear failure.
—Josh Eyler
How do we build in opportunities for mistakes and errors?
—Josh Eyler
Part of the work of college is to help our students figure out what they find meaningful in their lives and pursue that.
—Josh Eyler
Peter Kaufman discusses teaching with compassion on episode 230 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Social interaction is the foundation of our society.
—Peter Kaufman
If we can’t interact well, then we can’t have a strong society.
—Peter Kaufman
I think we’ve lost a good understanding of what it means to treat each other like humans.
—Peter Kaufman
Michael Ralph shares about building a culture of learning on episode 229 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Earn mastery on some of the things, or cover a lot and have mastery on many fewer things.
—Michael Ralph
Mastery feels good at a biological level.
—Michael Ralph
Active learning is more a description of the cognitive activities that are going on with my students.
—Michael Ralph