Teaching in Higher Ed

Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, and Mia Zamora share about community building activities on episode 349 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

It is not enough to tell students I want to listen to you. You have to build the trust so they will talk to you and be candid with you.

Community is more than just a gathering of people in a room. It is a sense of caring about one another and for something.

It is something really powerful when we learn together in community.

You can’t insist upon trust. It has to be something that emerges from moments.

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Michelle D. Miller discusses why memory is important for learning – even in the age of Google on episode 348 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Ask students to link their learning to their own lives.

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Courtney Plotts is back on Teaching in Higher Ed to discuss online culture on episode 347 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

When we look at the culture of learning, whether in the online space or in the classroom space, a lot of students experience marginalization.

Research says that marginalization is a self-selected way to deal with acculturated stress.

When we look at what successful students do, they are not independent, they are interdependent.

We have to be honest that campus culture is not the online culture. It is an extension, but it is not the same thing.

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Archana McEligot discusses filling the equity gap in STEM fields on episode 346 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

You really do need that interdisciplinary perspective when looking at data.

We can’t work in silos, some of the greatest innovations and discoveries have happened through an interdisciplinary perspective.

Many underrepresented students experience imposter syndrome.

Seeing someone that looks like them is so important.

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Big Data Discovery and Diversity: Through Research, Education Advancement and Partnership (BD3-REAP)

BD3-REAP Faculty

John Snow

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Adanely Jimenez, Adrian Delgado, + Jenny Vargas shares about transforming a university on episode 345 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

It was a big 180 slap in the face thing for me being around a whole diverse group of people and students who were my age, but I really thought everyone my age thought the way I did.

I was grateful to have professors who took the time to ask me what was wrong, if I was ok, and how it was going. Being able to speak to my professors when I was going through something made it easier for me to be real.

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Sharon Hamill speaks about caring for the whole person on episode 344 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

It was an opportunity for these outstanding graduate students at Cal State San Marcos to be able to be on the frontlines actually educating.

Watching these public health students get in there and do their thing- I was just in awe.

I think you have to embrace the messiness and recognize that this is probably where the best learning is going to occur.

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Meeting the Moment Through Inclusive Teaching, with Michael Benitez and Meredith Flynn.

Pedagogy is truly a craft. It is an art and requires us to be attentive to it.

As educators, we want to make sure that we create really welcoming environments and that our learning environments promote equitable and successful outcomes for our students.

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Amy Sprowles and Matt Johnson on episode 342 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We became much more aware and knowledgeable about what place-based learning means to other people and other groups.

Place-based learning rests on the power of immersing students, faculty and staff in the place and recognizing the heritage, culture, landscape, geography, plants, animals and rocks and how those things interact with each other to illustrate to students how so many disciplines are interconnected.

You cannot talk about the place without talking about the Indigenous people that have been there since time immemorial.

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Susan Roll and Jennifer Wilking share their experience teaching a multidisipilnary course together on episode 341 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

It was really fascinating to see how students across these three disciplines had different orientations from day one to this issue of homelessness.

One of the real benefits to interdisciplinary teaching is the exposure to different perspectives.

Students have such a deeper understanding when they’re actually doing the research rather than just hearing about research methods.

Once they have an experience and actually talk to a person who is experiencing homelessness, all of those preconceptions start to drop away; and that’s the beauty of doing research too.

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Student Teams Work to Alleviate Housing Insecurity

Episode 234 with Maria Andersen: A new lens to support learning outcomes

Mariah Kornbluh

Mindmap

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Heather Castillo and MiRi Park share about humanized online dance classes (and dance as protest) on episode 340 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

When I went to college I was being modeled into this modern dancer, I didn’t necessarily know what that meant, but I still wanted to be the best.

I think of them as people who do dance, as opposed to merely dancers. They are human beings that have histories of arrival and each person is unique, so there is never going to be just one story.

There was never a doubt in either of our minds that this could be done.

Why keep the information to myself when I can share it with others?

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