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Students as Partners in Teaching & Learning
Faculty spend a great deal of time creating their syllabus, planning meaningful course assessments, and designing learning experiences to engage their students. These efforts are often informed by their past experience, conversations with colleagues, and possibly engagement in professional organizations. The missing ingredient: student perspective. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up something...
Improve Student Writing with Peer Feedback
Peer feedback makes assignments more social and collaborative, creating opportunities for students to learn from one another. In conversations about shared assignments, students can make connections to lectures, readings, and other course elements. They can also use time in feedback groups to clarify the goals of the assignment and discover varied methods for fulfilling those goals....
The Power of a Good Story
Many of us rightly emphasize “critical reading” in our courses, helping students hone the tools they need to unpack and evaluate the storylines they encounter, whether in historical or contemporary texts, written or visual sources, scientists’ data or politicians’ campaigns. It’s also important, though, to get students thinking about what’s involved in producing the best possible stories, and...
Connecting with Students: Seeing Through a Performance Pedagogy Lens
Principles of Performance Pedagogy provide fundamental support for learning in any discipline. Performance Pedagogy values harnessing students’ pre-existing strengths and their own collection of knowledge and unique experiences. In this post, I discuss different perspectives we can bring to how we engage with students. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up something practical. Connecting with...
Teaching Statistics with House Shopping
Statistics is an extremely practical tool used in many business applications ranging from quality control in manufacturing, Netflix recommendations to Google ads. However, it is also an abstract topic that intimidates and frustrates many students. To help students learn and apply statistics more effectively, I asked them to go house shopping. Well, they just needed to pretend to buy a house....
Rethinking Student Assignments | Part 3: Multimodal Assignments – Structure vs. Choice
In part 1 of this series, I discussed how I like to think about multimodal assignments as holistically integrated into the syllabus. It’s great when an assignment can be all planned out before that syllabus gets its first amendment, but sometimes (most of the time, maybe) it’s just gotta be a work in progress. For me, the key is keeping it flexible. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up something...
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