Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni Stachowiak shares how she improves her productivity through a structured, weekly review.

Getting Things Done, by David Allen

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. – David Allen

Give a weekly review a try for one month… and share how it goes…

Bonni Stachowiak shares about the triumphs and failures in her first day of teaching this semester.

[reminder] Share your own failures and triumphs [/reminder]

Rebecca Campbell shares about the power of mindset.

Recommended by Michelle Miller, from episode #026.

Associate Professor of Education and the Director and Department Chair for Academic Transition Programs at Northern Arizona University.

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.  – Christopher Robin

Isn’t about teaching differently, but about framing the conversation differently. – Rebecca Campbell

A better way of describing those things holding students back from academic achievement

The shift between high school and college is pretty big. – Rebecca Campbell

… students come and arrive with lots of incoming characteristics. None of these things have to be overcome, in order for them to be successful.

These processes can be guided, coached, mentored and taught. – Rebecca Campbell

When we make the processes explicit, we make effort explicit and we are saying everyone can grow if you engage in the right processes. – Rebecca Campbell

We can guide students about the process of learning.

Be kind to students. Don’t make assumptions. – Rebecca Campbell

Reframing the conversation

Lee Skallerup Bessette joins me to talk about how to deal with and manage when stuff get’s out of control in our lives, as well as how to address those situations when it happens to our students.

… the intersection between technology and what technology can help us do in the humanities. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

We have unprecedented access to tools, to information, to interfaces, and the question that digital pedagogy attempts to answer is: ‘So what? What do we do with them?’ – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Often educational technology are almost commercially based, not to say that all of them are. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

#hilt2015 Digital Pedagogy – Making, Bending, Breaking https://t.co/hBI5JSGQOB

— Lee Skallerup (@readywriting) July 27, 2015

[When things happen outside your control], sometimes you’ve got to let go of some of the coverage [of course content] in order to accomplish the learning goals. – Lee Skallerup Bassette

Blogging was one of the things that I used to try to maintain some sort of balance. It was something I did for me and my own sanity. – Lee Skallerup Bassette

I saw my role as listening, so that they felt heard, and then guiding them to a place where they could be more effectively helped. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Sometimes it’s ok to let go of some of the content. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Cathy Davidson’s blog post – Handicapped by being underimpaired: Teaching with Equality at the Core .

Note: Cathy was a Teaching in Higher Ed guest on episode #028

Perhaps the worst people to teach writing are the best writers. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Critical Digital Pedagogy Resources and Tools by Andrea Rehn

Lee inspires us for the start to the academic year:

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. And give your students the benefit of the doubt right from the start. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Edward Oneill joins me to talk about practical instructional design.

Edward Oneill, Senior instructional designer at Yale.

Teach Better Podcast

I know a little bit about a lot of things. – Edward Oneill (and also Diana Krall, etc.)

…finding the points in the learning process where assessment and evaluation can be woven in seamlessly

You don’t learn anything by doing it once. – Edward Oneill

I wanted to see it as the students’ fault. It’s so hard to get out of that [mindset]. – Edward Oneill

It’s about stepping away from the center and helping [students] communicate with each other. – Edward Oneill

Bonni shares about teaching with Ellen’s Heads Up iPad game

Jeopardy game as form of reinforcement

Parker Palmer quote

I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy. When my students and I discover uncharted territory to explore, when the pathway out of a thicket opens up before us, when our experience is illumined by the lightning-life of the mind—then teaching is the finest work I know. – Parker Palmer

There is a special privilege in people letting you help them grow and change. – Edward Oneill

On Becoming a Person, by Carl Rogers

As a teacher, I need to see you as a unique learner. If I really try to understand you and try to help you grow, it is not so much about information transfer; it is a more humane kind of relationship. – Edward Oneill

When you’re passionate about teaching and you focus on it and you try to improve – you do. – Edward Oneill