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...
Inclusive teaching
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...
Current Challenges in Public Health Pedagogy
Author: Michael P. Huynh Program in Public Health Editor: Helen Meskhidze Editor-in-Chief: Alex Bower December 20, 2022 The Problem After being admitted to graduate school in public health, I was excited to learn how career professionals promote health...
“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...
Covid-19, Educational Inequity, and Student Outcomes
Alisson Rowland, School of Social Sciences The US’s poor welfare infrastructure, combined with the devastation of Covid-19, has perpetuated racist educational inequities (Kyeremateng, Oguda, Asemota 2022; Johnson-Agbakwu et al. 2022). Sonya Douglass Horsford,...
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...
Lilly Conference, San Diego 2022 – Evidence-Based Teaching & Learning International Teaching Learning Cooperative (ITLC)
Jeanie R. C. Toscano, DTEI Pedagogical Fellow Department of Spanish & Portuguese. I attended Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching & Learning in San Diego, California in January of 2022 The in-person conference was a refreshing change of pace after...
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Juan R. Sandoval, Department of Social Ecology The Current State of “Diversity” and “Inclusion” According to a report by the U.S. Department of Education (2019), whites make up approximately eighty percent of the full-time professoriate in the United States....