Keystone Concepts in Teaching: A Higher Education Podcast from the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning

Dr. Shelley Reid returns for a follow-up conversation about how we create a classroom that supports all students – and the instructors – to create an environment of educational success through policies, procedures, assessment, and more.

Reality, equity, equality, and justice figure:  https://www.bu.edu/diversity/resource-toolkit/inequity-equality-equity-and-justice/ 

Stearns Center resource – Designing for Flexibility:  https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/21-Course-Design-Flexibility-ALL-Policies.pdf 

 Stearns Center Face-to-Face and/or Hybrid Teaching Resources (see Course Design & Organization Basics section for Life Happens Pass):  https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/knowledge-center/hybrid-teaching-resources/ 

 Fast Learner/Slow Learner news article:  https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/march/the-myth-of-the-fast-learner 

 Fast/Learner Slow Learner original research article:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120 

 Example Exam Wrapper from the American Psychological Association:  https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/teaching-resources/exam-wrapper.pdf  

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Join us as Dr. Shelley Reid discusses how good teaching is focused on learning, rather than just delivering content, in a way that supports and includes all students. 

Resources: Think-Pair-Share and other active learning strategies, Concentric circles of diversity 

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Listen to our podcast introduction to learn more about Keystone Concepts in Teaching!

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