Teaching in Higher Ed

Disability Accommodations and Other Listener Questions

with Dave Stachowiak

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On this week’s episode, Dave and I discuss disability accommodations and other listener questions.

disability accomodations

1) Disability accommodations

2) Online scenario manager resource

3) Preparation for getting doctorate degree

4) “Small” approaches to reclaiming teaching as a focus

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Critical Instructional Design

with Sean Michael Morris

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On this week's episode, Sean Michael Morris and I discuss Critical Instructional Design.

Critical Instructional Design

Guest: Sean Michael Morris

Sean is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He’s been working in digital teaching and learning for 15 years. His work as a pioneer in the field of Critical Digital Pedagogy is founded in the philosophy of Paulo Freire, and finds contemporary analogues in the work of Howard Rheingold, Cathy N. Davidson, Dave Cormier, and Jesse Stommel. He is committed to engaging audiences in critical inspection of digital technologies, and to turning a social justice lens upon education. More

Course: Critical Instructional Design

Quotes

[Instructional Design] makes very mechanical the non-mechanical nature of teaching. Certain processes are put into place where the spontaneity is taken out of teaching. The relationship is taken out of teaching. The care and nurture of the student is taken out of teaching.
—Sean Michael Morris

A lot of critical instructional design is questioning. It’s a matter of stepping back and observing and saying, “What are the assumptions of the LMS? What are the assumptions that I make and have been given to make about online learning? And how can I switch that up?”
—Sean Michael Morris

I think there is a direct correlation between the amount of restrictions we place on students and their lack of interest in what we’re doing.
—Sean Michael Morris

The more restrictions we place on learning, the less students have the ability to to explore it themselves.
—Sean Michael Morris

Resources

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Proactive Inclusivity

with Carl Moore

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On today’s episode, Dr. Carl Moore and I have a dialog about proactive inclusivity.

Proactive Inclusivity

Guest: Dr. Carl Moore

Dr. Moore is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Research Academy for Integrated Learning (RAIL) at University of DC. Prior to his current role he served as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education as well as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Temple University. More

Quotes

There are stages in which a person can honestly, truly feel [colorblind], but I do think that there is something to be said about honoring and respecting differences.
—Carl Moore

I have a strong sense of ethnic identity, but also a strong sense of identity of the mainstream majority, [as] an American.
—Carl Moore

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Public Sphere Pedagogy

with Thia Wolf

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On this week's episode, Dr. Thia Wolf shares about public sphere pedagogy.

Thia Wolf

Guest: Thia Wolf

Thia is a Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Experience Program at California State University, Chico, where she has worked since 1989. Prior to her appointment in the FYE program, she coordinated a variety of writing programs, including the first-year composition program and the writing across the disciplines program.  Since 2006, she has been collaborating with faculty in several disciplines to embed public dimensions in first-year classes. Her publications have focused on collaborative learning and on public sphere pedagogy. More

Quotes

Students need to have an experience when they come to college that … gives them a sense that education is for the rest of their lives, it’s to help them do things in the world.
—Thia Wolf

I noticed that the curriculum of first year students looks a lot like the curriculum in high school … I would say that it sends the “Not ready for prime time” message.
—Thia Wolf

When [students] go public with their work, they have to stand by it, and really remarkable things happen.
—Thia Wolf

We don’t give students opportunities to experience and reflect on how the curriculum is part of them and how they are affecting it.
—Thia Wolf

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The Failure Episode

with Dave Stachowiak

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Eight faculty share their failure stories on this special #100th episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.

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CV of Failures

Quotes

At the time, I felt like I had to know everything in order to be a good teacher, so instead of admitting that I didn't know the answer to the student's question, I dismissed it.
—Cameron Hunt-McNabb

I think I understand way better now what kinds of issues my students think are important.
—Doug McKee

I strongly identified with that strain of perfectionism that insists that unless every student in every class feels like every moment was a rich and profound learning experience, then I have failed.
—Jeff Hittenberger

Guest Stories

1) Katie Linder

2) Jeff Hittenberger

  • Felt like he had failed at the end of each semester.

3.) Angela Jenks

  • Didn’t know how much the class textbooks cost.

4.) Josh Eyler

5.) Michelle Miller

  • Didn’t take care of a problem before it escalated.

6.) James Lang

  • Was not clear enough in assignment criteria.

7.) Cameron Hunt-McNabb

  • Thought she had to know everything to be good teacher.

7.) Maha Bali

  • Laughed at student’s suffering … almost.

8.) Doug McKee

Recommendations

Books:

Janine Utell: Dear Committee Members* by Julie Schumacher

José Bowen: Teaching Naked* by José Bowen

Sean Micael Morris: Savvy* by Ingrid Law

Cameron Hunt McNabb: Tina Fey’s advice to “Say yes” in her memoir, Bossy Pants*

Amy Collier: Quotes Anne Lamott: “These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced,” from her book Grace (Eventually)*

Tools:

Doug McKee: Piazza*

Aaron Daniel Annas: Amazon Echo*

Teaching inspiration:

Rebecca Campbell: Be kind to students. Don’t make assumptions.

Linda Nielsen: Cultivate your courage by trying out things you’re afraid of.

Lee Skallerup Bessette: Be hopeful. Be optimistic. And give your students the benefit of the doubt right from the start.

Doug McKee: Try poster sessions with students.

Peter Newbury: Get yourself into a learning community. Get on Twitter.

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