This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. If you’re required to move your course online quickly—in case of a campus closure, for example—there are some decisions you’ll need to make… Read more »
Entries by Greg Siering
Preparing for COVID-19 Challenges
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. As you all know, COVID-19 is spreading in the U.S. and abroad, bringing with it threats of disrupting education. We already are seeing… Read more »
Resources on Inclusive Teaching, Stereotype Threat, and Bias
Instructors often ask us questions about how to build more inclusive classrooms, and what we know about these topics from research in the field. We are fortunate to have a rich body of literature in this area, and here are a few resources that instructors might find enlightening. Introductions and Overviews Here are several good… Read more »
Acknowledging Indigenous Peoples’ Day
I am proud to live in a city that officially recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday that celebrates the history and contributions of indigenous peoples of North America. I am a bit saddened, however, that we still recognize Columbus Day as a federal holiday, given what we know about his “discovery” of America—the start of… Read more »
Providing Feedback Early and Often with the Student Engagement Roster
One of the classic texts on undergraduate teaching—Chickering and Gamson’s “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education” (AAHE Bulletin, March 1987)—notes the importance of providing prompt feedback to students, giving students “frequent opportunities to perform and receive suggestions for improvement.” In many cases, this means providing low-stakes quizzes and assignments early in the semester,… Read more »
The French Bread Gambit
This week’s post comes from Carl Weinberg, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of History Things were not looking good for a student pretending to be King Louis XVI. The revolutionary forces had proclaimed that France was now a democratic republic, and the radical Jacobins were calling for the king’s head. Fearing for his life… Read more »