Something that may be of interest
Denison students will spend their spring semester diving into important topics in their classes and figuring out how to answer one of two questions:
“What will you be doing this summer?” or
“What are your plans after graduation?”
For most students, the answers are directly related to internships and jobs – the work experience they need to launch from their Denison education.
What will students remember from your class in 20 Years? In this article, James Lang tackles this thorny question that has no set answer. However, as we are mapping out our semester, consider how your course might:
Whether you’re a fan of Apple’s hit series or not, the fictional character Ted Lasso has some words of wisdom for those teaching for the first semester or thirtieth. Check out this short piece from The Teaching Professor, What Ted Lasso taught me about my first semester of teaching.
Whether you’re a fan of Apple’s hit series or not, the fictional character Ted Lasso has some words of wisdom for those teaching for the first semester or thirtieth. Check out this short piece from The Teaching Professor, What Ted Lasso taught me about my first semester of teaching.
As due dates for those scaffolded writing projects come due, many of us are holding writing conferences with our students. This article by Paul Hanstedt in
The Teaching Professor provides his fresh approach to this process that get his student actively engaged in the conference. He requires students to take out a notebook and make three lists:
He found that thee conferences were less work, students paid greater attention, and the papers got better.
On Wednesday, November 10 at 12:00 noon, the GLCA’s Consortium for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will present a second webinar in the series by Vicki L. Baker, Professor of Economics and Management at Albion College, entitled, So You’re Mid-Career, Now What?: Next Steps of Your Faculty Journey. This installment focuses on “SWOT Analysis/Goal Setting.”
On Wednesday, November 10 at 12:00 noon, the GLCA’s Consortium for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will present a second webinar in the series by Vicki L. Baker, Professor of Economics and Management at Albion College, entitled, So You’re Mid-Career, Now What?: Next Steps of Your Faculty Journey. This installment focuses on “SWOT Analysis/Goal Setting.”
At a conference in 2011, I saw a speaker use a think-pair-share exercise with a room of more than 200 strangers. Within two minutes, he could barely quiet the room and the following conversation was rich and meaningful. I have used this strategy heavily in my classroom ever since.
Even though I am a firm believer in this discussion method, I am not always the best practitioner.
The past 18 months have been challenging. Even with the return to the classroom, there are still many issues and concerns when it comes to our teaching. Ashley Harvey refers to some of these challenges as the emotional labor of teaching. Her article Seven Strategies for Embracing the Emotional Labor of Teaching helps us navigate this.
Have you used the new Say My Name feature from NoteBowl to learn how to pronounce your students names? This article from Inside Higher Ed explores the importance of using and correctly pronouncing the names of Hispanic and Latino students in the New York City school system, and how this impacts their later learning.
