Category: Assessment & Badges
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Reimagining the Grading Contract to “Ungrade” with Prof. Eidum
We are thankful this week on Progressive Pedagogy to have Professor Jennifer Eidum (EYE-dum), Assistant Professor of English at Elon University, North Carolina share her collected resources on reimagining the grading contract to move towards “ungrading.” Professor Eidum’s teaching focuses on first-year writing, teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), and sociolinguistics. She uses […]
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Dr. Jenn Polish on Accessible Syllabus Design: Content, Assignments, Assessments, and More
Syllabus accessibility isn’t emphasized enough in academe. Too often, accessibility is limited to a single statement toward the end of the syllabus rather than something that is integrated into a course from the beginning stages of syllabus design. Dr. Jenn Polish asks, “What would happen if we structured our syllabus to foreground accessibility, rather than […]
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Digital Friday Recap: Universal Design for Learning
In this webinar, I had a chance to share my understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) which is a democratic response to the one-size-fits-all approach and provides a framework for educators/designers to increase the chances of learners with different prior knowledge and abilities. UDL is mostly associated with technological tools, but I think this […]
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Rethinking Assessment: Some Questions to Ask Yourself
Originally posted on CUNY Humanities Alliance. Featured image CC BY 2.0 of Marco Verch. This past semester in particular, I’ve received a lot of questions from graduate teaching fellows about restructuring their courses’ assessment structures (mostly to be more in line with their student-centered pedagogical methods). After all, it creates a bit of a hypocrisy when […]
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Teaching History? Or Bringing Out Every Student’s Inner Historian? A Midterm Exam Alternative
Yesterday in class, a graduate student who teaches history as an adjunct professor–in short, way overworked, way underpaid–said she was trying to include progressive pedagogy in her class but it was simply too hard. I hear this all the time. And when I talk to people, it often turns out that what is “hard” […]
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Do you Magoosh?
Allow Us To Introduce Ourselves Magoosh is a completely online test preparation website. The objective is to be a replacement for teachers, classrooms, and books. Magoosh does this through their online practice questions and video explanations that are accessible anytime you want. They pride themselves in their ability to get expert quality presentations and […]
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“Why I Love Reality TV”: NYT Times Op Ed by Futures Ed Prof Racquel Gates
Racquel Gates, professor of media studies at Futures Ed (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the College of Staten Island has just published a brilliant op ed in the New York Times, “Why I love Reality Television.” Her complex way of viewing reality TV dispenses with the idea of “good role models” and “bad role models,” in […]
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How to do Grading With Words: Weekly Writing Assignments and Descriptive Rubrics (Part 2)
Written in conversation with T.L. Cowan https://www.hastac.org/blogs/tlcowan/2018/08/27/how-do-grading-words-wee… I walked into T.L.’s Facebook post around comment 25 because the conversation deeply resonated with my own mixed feelings of dedication, anxiety, and resentment about teaching, evaluating, and labor. The flip comment I posted at the time does, in fact, represent my pedagogical-emotional state, but needs the kind […]
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How to do Grading With Words: Weekly Writing Assignments and Descriptive Rubrics (Part 1)
Written in conversation with George Hoagland. https://www.hastac.org/blogs/george-hoagland/2018/08/27/how-do-grading-words-weekly-writing-assignments-and-descriptive The Problem I Made for Myself Last September I found myself for the first time in a very long time teaching (and grading) a large enrollment course. Well, large for me: about 60 students in one class and another of about 30. Even in these bigger-than-seminar classes, I […]
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How Do You Give Feedback in Engaged, Activist Learning?
Yesterday on Twitter I came across an excellent resource on the best ways to give feedback. It is compiled by Professor Laura Gibbs, a professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been teaching online since 2002 and using the best, most thoughtful methods for any kind of engaged teaching and learning, whether face to […]