Author: Nathan Allison Department of English Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2022 As a writing instructor, my favorite part of teaching is hosting conferences: feedback sessions in which the instructor and student walk through the student’s...
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First Time Teaching? SGFP to the Rescue!
Author: Victoria E. Rodriguez, MSW, MPH Program in Public Health Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2022 Teaching for the first time completely on your own is a very intimidating feat. When I was first offered the position to teach an undergraduate...
Creating a Flipped Classroom in a Remote Statistics Course
Author: Jeff Coon Department of Cognitive Sciences Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2022 Statistics courses are fundamental to virtually every STEM major, yet they are often viewed as a necessary evil. Students generally choose their major...
“Uncovering” Student-Centered Historical Pedagogy Within a Lecture-Oriented Tradition
Author: Clay Ammentorp Department of History Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2023 Entering into my first ever stint as an instructor-of-record, I felt reasonably well-prepared to face the unique challenges of teaching History 40C: Modern...
Factors That Promote Student Retention in MOOCs
Author: Adebisi A. Akinyemi Department of Psychological Science Editors: Thomas Matthew Colclough & Helen Meskhidze Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower February 20, 2023 Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are online courses that are open for enrollment to...
Critical Latinx Pedagogy: Empowering Latinx Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Julybeth Murillo, School of Social Sciences Hispanic Serving Institutions Aguilar- Smith states that a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is a “public and private 2- and 4-year postsecondary institution in which at least a quarter of the institution’s full-time...
Implementing Active Learning in Large-Enrollment Courses
Claire Freimark, School of Biological Sciences Introductory undergraduate science courses can be intimidating. Large class sizes, long lectures, and cumulative exams can lead to high stress levels, poor student attitudes, and low retention rates in STEM majors. Many...
Implementing Undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs) in College Classrooms: A Win-Win-Win-Win!
Karma Rose Zavita, School of Social Ecology Big universities are the most likely to have large lecture-style classes and as a result of the labor involved in managing these courses, there has been an increase reliance on the use of Teaching Assistants (TA’s). One...
Implementing Curative Pedagogy in Teaching Theatre History
Talin Abadian, Department of Drama Theatre history courses are generally offered through survey courses where future theatre professionals are exposed to essential historical knowledge and vocabulary (Smith et al 113). Yet even though these courses are often...
Connections Between UDL and Educating Students with Disabilities
Katherine Karayianis, School of Social Ecology As a child growing up with a disability, I often heard the word “universal design” thrown around by my mother at every IEP meeting. I remember her begging my teachers to use these universal teaching strategies to not only...