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Podcast on Joy Centered Pedagogy
On Episode 566 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I had the pleasure of speaking with Eileen Camfield about her new book, Joy Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching and Learning for All. Eileen invited us to reflect on what it means to center joy in teaching—how curiosity, connection, and creativity can truly transform the experience for both…
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Elaborative Interrogation as a Reading Comprehension Strategy
Edu-Snippets JIM HEWITT AND NIDHI SACHDEVAMAR 9 How can elaborative interrogation be used to improve reading comprehension? Elaborative interrogation is an active learning strategy in which learners are prompted to answer “how” and “why” questions about material they are studying. For example, a student studying Hamlet might ask themselves, “Why does Hamlet contemplate the nature of existence?”…
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Teaching: Small ways to spark joy in your teaching
by Beckie Supiano Chronicle of Higher Education Teaching Newsletter Infusing delight Sometimes, professors operate as if having fun and feeling joy are at odds with doing serious, rigorous work. But that’s a false dichotomy, says Eugene Korsunskiy, an associate professor who teaches human-centered design courses in the engineering school at Dartmouth College. A sense of…
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First Day of Class Strategies by James Lang
Full article available here. Excerpts below. … On that first day, I would argue, your students are forming a lasting impression not just of you as a teacher but of your course, too. Their early, thin-slice judgments are powerful enough to condition their attitudes toward the entire course, the effort they are willing to put…
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The Appreciative Close: A Strategy for Creating a Classroom Community
“What you appreciate, appreciates.” One of the practices I have employed in most of my classes during the past several years is “the appreciative close,” which is an offshoot of “the appreciative pause” recommended by Stephen Brookfield (Brookfield, 2015, pp.95-96). Brookfield suggests using the appreciative pause at the end of whole class discussions, providing an opportunity…