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| Three faculty members–Heather Rhodes (HESS), Andrew McWard (Politics & Public Affairs), and Matthew Smalley (English)–shared some of their goals and practices around assigning reading at a recent Teaching Matters session. Their comments naturally coalesced around the pedagogical purposes of assigning reading: as a way to encourage depth, challenge students to think in different ways about the material at hand, and inculcate reflective habits of thinking. |
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Supporting Student Reading
These articles give some good ideas for supporting our students with reading:
- Searching for Wonder: Teaching Literature with Student-Selected Texts by Mary Isbell
- To get students reading, let them pick the texts by Beckie Supiano
- How to Move from the ‘Main Idea’ to ‘Background Knowledge’ by Youki Terada (written about young readers but relevant for college students)
- Assigned Readings: Questions to Ask Yourself by Nicole Donawho
- How to Use a Course Workload Estimator with Betsy Barre
- Reading Assignments, Activities, and Approaches to Promote Learning by Maryellen Weimer