T5: Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together

Guest: Judith Canner | Professor | Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Cal State Monterey Bay

For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Grading," which we can think of as anything outside of "weighted average of points." We have become convinced on the benefits of alternative grading, but we continue to struggle with how to cultivate buy in from students. We speak with a variety of individuals who have been experimenting with alternative grading in the classroom to learn how they communicate the idea to their students.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: Halley McCormick | Professor | Department of Mathematics | Walla Walla Community College

For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Grading," which we can think of as anything outside of "weighted average of points." We have become convinced on the benefits of alternative grading, but we continue to struggle with how to cultivate buy in from students. We speak with a variety of individuals who have been experimenting with alternative grading in the classroom to learn how they communicate the idea to their students.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: June Pilcher | Professor | College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Science | Clemson University

For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Grading," which we can think of as anything outside of "weighted average of points." We have become convinced on the benefits of alternative grading, but we continue to struggle with how to cultivate buy in from students. We speak with a variety of individuals who have been experimenting with alternative grading in the classroom to learn how they communicate the idea to their students.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: Robert Talbert | Professor | Department of Mathematics | Grand Valley State University

For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Grading," which we can think of as anything outside of "weighted average of points." We have become convinced on the benefits of alternative grading, but we continue to struggle with how to cultivate buy in from students. We speak with a variety of individuals who have been experimenting with alternative grading in the classroom to learn how they communicate the idea to their students.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this series.  We discuss what we learned in speaking with our guests, the questions that still remain, and what we look forward to trying in our classes as consider assigned readings in our courses.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: Yung-Hsing Wu | Professor | Department of English | University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to benefit our students.  And we know the frustration of leading a discussion with a class that did not complete the assigned reading!  In this series, we explore strategies faculty have used to encourage students to engage with course reading assignments, making them an integral part of the learning experience.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: Laura Le | Senior Lecturer | Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science | University of Minnesota

Additional Resources:

Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to benefit our students.  And we know the frustration of leading a discussion with a class that did not complete the assigned reading!  In this series, we explore strategies faculty have used to encourage students to engage with course reading assignments, making them an integral part of the learning experience.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: Shannon Talbott | Associate Professor | Department of Mathematics | Moravian University

Resource: Link to article describing the guided inquiry that is used in Dr. Talbott's upper level algebra course.

Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to benefit our students.  And we know the frustration of leading a discussion with a class that did not complete the assigned reading!  In this series, we explore strategies faculty have used to encourage students to engage with course reading assignments, making them an integral part of the learning experience.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: Melissa Stucky | Lecturer | Bayh College of Education, Teaching, and Learning | Indiana State University

Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to benefit our students.  And we know the frustration of leading a discussion with a class that did not complete the assigned reading!  In this series, we explore strategies faculty have used to encourage students to engage with course reading assignments, making them an integral part of the learning experience.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].

Guest: Lauren Hecht | Professor | Department of Psychological Science | Gustavus Adophus College

Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to benefit our students.  And we know the frustration of leading a discussion with a class that did not complete the assigned reading!  In this series, we explore strategies faculty have used to encourage students to engage with course reading assignments, making them an integral part of the learning experience.

As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as [email protected].