Teaching in Higher Ed

How to Ungrade

with Jesse Stommel

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Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

How to Ungrade

The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery.
—Jesse Stommel

Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience.
—Jesse Stommel

Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet.
—Jesse Stommel

Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education.
—Jesse Stommel

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Research on Engaging Learners

with Peter Felten

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Peter Felten discusses the research on engaging learners on episode 216 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Notes from the episode

Research on Engaging Learners
Shape what our students do and what they think in the most efficient ways possible.
—Peter Felten

Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (from How Learning Works by Ambrose et al., 2010, p. 1)

Five Things Students Need to Do:

  1. Time
  2. Effort
  3. Feedback
  4. Practice
  5. Reflect

Three Things Students Need to Think/Feel:

  1. “I belong here.”
  2. “I can learn this.”
  3. “I find this meaningful.”

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Teaching as an act of social justice and equity

with Bryan Dewsbury

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Bryan Dewsbury describes teaching as an act of social justice and equity on episode 215 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Bryan Dewsbury

Mistakes are normal, but how you respond to the challenges is what will make you a better intellectual.
—Bryan Dewsbury

It is not my job to give them information — it is my job to extract potential they already have.
—Bryan Dewsbury

Don’t assume you can take a list of suggestions and implement them and assume that inclusion will happen.
—Bryan Dewsbury

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On Not Affirming Our Values

with Lori Martin, Stephen Finley & Biko Mandela Gray

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Stephen Finley, Lori Martin, and Biko Mandela Gray share about their article: “Affirming Our Values”: African American Scholars, White Virtual Mobs, and the Complicity of White University Administrators on episode 214 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Affirming Our Values
I try to have very honest conversations with my students.
—Stephen Finley

You have to have integrity before you stand before these students.
—Biko Mandela Gray

Integrity and honesty on both sides is absolutely necessary.
—Biko Mandela Gray

A lot of institutions think diversity is having a woman, having a person of color, on faculty — but not structural change.
—Stephen Finley

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Personal Knowledge Mastery

with Harold Jarche

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Personal Knowledge Mastery

Harold Jarche discusses personal knowledge mastery on episode 213 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You can’t turn data into information until you have the knowledge to understand the data.
—Harold Jarche

We are the sum of our interactions, our experiences, with others.
—Harold Jarche

Whatever you do, make it shareable.
—Harold Jarche

Leadership in the network era is helping make your network smarter.
—Harold Jarche

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