Teaching in Higher Ed

The Principles of Grading for Growth

with Robert Talbert

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Robert Talbert shares about the principles of grading for growth on episode 510 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Points used for grades are a judgment call that results in a label.

In one shot, she can't get a B in the class. And I sat there and just watched her sense of self worth and her excitement in the class just decay away right before my eyes.
-Robert Talbert

When you look at grades as we often use them in a traditional setting, they are much of what we do is under the guise of object what we think is objectivity.
-Robert Talbert

The biggest thing that's broken about grades is that traditional grading is completely disconnected from the notion of a feedback loop.
-Robert Talbert

Give helpful feedback that doesn't humiliate the student, affirms their basic dignity as a human being, and highlights what went well. Helpful feedback also highlights what could use some work and invites students to collaborate with you to make it better.
-Robert Talbert

Reattempts without penalty, that's the closing of the feedback loop.
-Robert Talbert

Points used for grades are a judgment call that results in a label.
-Robert Talbert

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How to Teach in Active Learning Spaces

with Kem Saichaie

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Kem Saichaie talks about how to teach in active learning spaces on episode 509 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Flexibility requires familiarity.

Flexibility requires familiarity.
-Kem Saichaie

Oftentimes, at least at the research intensive level, we have this false comparison between STEM and non STEM types of teaching in classrooms.
-Kem Saichaie

At the heart of many active learning classroom design spaces is the concept of flexibility.
-Kem Saichaie

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How Curiosity Can Transform Lives and Change the World

with Scott Shigeoka

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Scott Shigeoka shares about his book SEEK: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World on episode 508 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Students can feel unsafe on their campuses because of the discourse or the lack of discourse.

It is a really beautiful experience to have multiple generations in the same house where we're all just living and learning alongside one another.
-Scott Shigeoka

Students can feel unsafe on their campuses because of the discourse or the lack of discourse.
-Scott Shigeoka

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Higher Education for All (Including Those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities)

with Tamara (Tami) Shetron

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Tamara (Tami) Shetron shares a vision of higher education for all (including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities on episode 507 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Everyone can learn.

My background is in a field called developmental education, which is some people used to call it remedial education, but the term evolved into developmental because remedial is the idea of fixing things, whereas developmental follows more the natural human cycle of growing and developing across the lifespan.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

Everyone can learn.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

What makes these programs different from a normal, typical college experience is they are designed to help students get employment.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

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How to Use High Structure Course Design to Heighten Learning

with Justin Shaffer

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Justin Shaffer shares how to use high structure course design to heighten student learning on episode 506 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Some students might be doing just fine with the traditional, maybe unstructured class. But we know from evidence, lots of research now shows that this type of structure does help students.

Some students might be doing just fine with the traditional, maybe unstructured class. But we know from evidence, lots of research now shows that this type of structure does help students.
-Justin Shaffer

The keyword through all 3 steps is alignment.
-Justin Shaffer

I don't think the structure necessarily guarantees success because it's the students ultimately have to put the work in to earn that grade, to earn that outcome.
-Justin Shaffer

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