Teaching

Teaching

The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

While taking attendance, inner-city substitute teacher Mr. Garvey has trouble adjusting to a classroom full of middle-class white students.About Key & Peele:...

The way we introduce college students to research fails to encourage the ethical practice of open-ended curiosity so desperately needed in today’s complex information environment.

If it’s code for “some students deserve to be here, and some don’t,” then it needs to go.

The work of teaching, assessing, and supporting our learners may feel more challenging recently. New barriers have cropped up alongside existing ones. How can we replace counter-productive responses with inclusive and equitable ones?

“Working on an essay on "rigor" in higher education, and boy howdy are there some real gems in the discourse:”

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A thread on belonging and community, fwiw:#HigherEd #FacDev— Karen Costa (she/her) (@karenraycosta) September 8, 2022

pic.twitter.com/wa89KIpgVD— Melanie Sage she/her 💻👨‍👧‍👦 (@melaniesage) September 4, 2022

Got 5 minutes for 5 tips? So many of us are being asked to move to online with little time to prepare… when we thought we might have been face-to-face. Here are five quick tips to help build …

Classroom observation tools are used to evaluate teaching and learning activities, and to provide constructive feedback to instructors. To help instructors with selecting a suitable tool based on their needs and available resources, in this study, a group of observers assessed lectures of an introductory biology course using three, broadly cited classroom assessment tools in the STEM field: the Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS); the Practical Observation Rubric to Assess Active Learning (PORTAAL); and the Decibel Analysis for Research in Teaching (DART). From a user’s perspective, we evaluated 1) the type and extent of information each tool provides, and 2) the time investment and difficulty of working with each tool. The assessment result of each tool was compared, with a list of expected outcomes generated by surveying a group of college instructors and with the result of a self-teaching assessment tool, Teaching Practices Inventory (TPI). Our findings conclude that each tool provided valuable assessment with a broad range of outcomes and time investment: PORTAAL offered the most detailed information on the quality of teaching practices and students’ engagement, but it demanded the greatest time investment. DART provided a basic estimation of active learning proportion with the least effort. The level of assessment outcome and the time investment when using COPUS was found to be less than PORTAAL, and more than DART. The TPI self-assessment ou...

Article. By James Baldwin. October 16, 1963. Baldwin addresses the challenges of education to prepare children to grapple with the myths and realities of U.S. history.

I’ve come to see #ungrading as something more like a spectrum that’s moving away from traditional event-based grading. Things like SBG are a step towards something better, but there's further to go. I think most ungraders do some combination of pieces on this spectrum 2/3 pic.twitter.com/2ag6vlhAUq— Chris Sarkonak (@CSarkonak) September 3, 2022

Digital learning increases access to equitable higher education and can catalyze improved course outcomes for historically marginalized students.

The goal of the ISEE Assessment is to pool the multi-disciplinary expertise on educational systems and reforms from a range of stakeholders in an open and inclusive manner and undertake a scientifically robust and evidence-based assessment that can inform education policy making at all levels and scales.

Did you miss RIOS' "Critical, Socially Just, and Open Pedagogies in STEM" workshop from #MYFest22, led by two of our leadership, @karencang + @BMDewsbury? Recordings of all 3 sessions are now available to view on YouTube!https://t.co/0P3s3uFElP— Racially-Just, Inclusive and Open STEM Education (@RIOSCommunity) August 15, 2022

In a brilliant workshop today at @olemiss on the implications of AI for higher ed teaching and learning by Bob Cummings and Marc Watkins, Bob quotes @stephenmmonroe: “this is the hand-held calculator moment for the teaching of writing in college.”— Joshua Eyler (@joshua_r_eyler) August 29, 2022

Behavior Research Methods - Using traces of behaviors to predict outcomes is useful in varied contexts ranging from buyer behaviors to behaviors collected from smart-home devices. Increasingly,...

QR codes can complement the design of more interactive and engaging learning experiences in higher education.

As the school year gets underway this fall, many teachers are wondering how to address the mental health repercussions of the past two years. How can we show up for our students with care at the ce…

“We need to have a talk about rubrics for evaluating effective online learning. They have a tendency to regress to a mean (maybe to a minimum) and are resulting in reductive practices that border on controlling and undermine academic freedom of educators.”

As a new academic year approaches, I urge institutions & educators to abandon online proctoring. It's racist, ableist tech that entrenches pedagogies of policing. Need evidence for abolishing online proctoring? Visit the Against Online Proctoring Library: https://t.co/p27UxMGJ5y— Charles Logan (@charleswlogan) August 14, 2022

“There’s so much you can do to build community in the moments before class and meetings #prezoom. Here’s another example: On a scale of cat, how are you feeling today?”

“The author of this travesty clearly has no idea what DEI means, so we gain very little from pushing back, but since people are reading it, I wanted to address the flippant ?s he asks about whether *all* faculty should be asked to show evidence of working toward DEI goals. 1/x”

In fact, they can be fun and rewarding. Not kidding!