Teaching in Higher Ed

Teacher Becomes Student Through LIFE101

with Michael Wesch

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LIFE101

Mike Wesch describes his becoming a learner and what it taught him about teaching on episode 118 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

Quotes from the Episode

I’ve always picked things that are really hard and bring out fears inside me.
—Mike Wesch

Students get out of it whatever they put into it.
—Mike Wesch

I take the philosophy that grading can play different roles depending on the course.
—Mike Wesch

What matters when students graduate is how they’ve changed, not just their GPA.
—Mike Wesch

When I started teaching in my late 20s, it was really easy to relate to students. As I was in my late 30s, it was much more difficult.
—Mike Wesch

Life is too short to not experiment.
—Mike Wesch

Resources Mentioned

 

The Balancing Act

with Kerry Moore

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Kerry Moore discusses how to balance the responsibilities of caring for an elderly loved one with our teaching responsibilities.

caregiving

Quotes from the episode

 

We’re trying to help people grow their own ability to meet needs and to have agency in their own lives.
—Kerry Moore

Sometimes challenges can help us to … bounce forward into new skills and knowledge.
—Kerry Moore

Nothing is going to make the loss of someone you love or a disability okay, but the way we walk through it makes a big difference in what our life looks like on the other side.
—Kerry Moore

A healthy locus of control has a realistic assessment of the things that I am in control of and also the things that I’m not.
—Kerry Moore

Caregiving [has] a lot of physical demands but also a lot of emotional demands.
—Kerry Moore

Resources Mentioned

Connected Learning for the Curious

with Laura Gogia

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connected learning

Laura Gogia shares about connected learning on this week’s Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The most important part of [connected learning] is helping others understand the connections between all the different aspects of their life.
—Laura Gogia

It’s not a tool-first [mentality] … it’s which tool matches up with what I’m trying to achieve.
—Laura Gogia

Assessment becomes about documenting [the] process of learning.
—Laura Gogia

Resources Mentioned

Bonni mistakenly attributed this Twitter analysis tool to being introduced by Robert Talbert on the TIHE Slack channel, but it was actually Ken Bauer who shared it.

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