Do you suspect some of your student teams are not performing at their best? Are your students reporting that they cannot find a time to meet with their group members? Are some complaining that not everyone on their team is doing their fair share of the work? Perhaps CATME software can help you address these… Read more »
Pt. 1: Gender Equity in Student-Teacher Interactions A special guest post by Katrina Overby, Katie Kearns, and Maureen Biggers Gender-equitable classroom practices allow an inclusive range of perspectives to be presented, and they can positively impact the individual and collective growth of students. Yet several nationwide studies report that faculty members exhibit subconscious gender-biased behavior… Read more »
When a student asked, “How many sources do I need?” history Professor Leah Shopkow took the question seriously, transforming her teaching. In an article she wrote about this assignment transformation, Shopkow explains how she went from answering, “It depends,” to truly teaching her students what historians do when they write. Unaware of the forms writing… Read more »
Instructors tasked with designing an online course often have two questions: What do I need to know, and where do I start? Our upcoming workshop, “Quality Matters: Applying the Rubric to Online Courses,” helps to answer both questions. Quality Matters (QM) is a non-profit organization concerned with improving and certifying the quality of online and… Read more »
Images and objects surround us in our everyday lives—from the advert on the bus to the heirloom in our grandmother’s living room—but are often left out of the classroom. Objects and photos engage students across many disciplines (education, anthropology, history, sociology, languages, etc.). By learning to look critically and evaluate an object’s construction and use,… Read more »
A syllabus can be a creative and integrative expression of graduate students’ academic and pedagogical interests. Whether graduate students are applying to teach for their department, Collins, or Global Village, or preparing for academic job interviews, they can use the syllabus to showcase how they would teach their dissertation topic. It can be tempting, however,… Read more »