Category: Higher Education
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The Last Page
When I sat down this weekend to prepare the last page of the syllabus for a course I instruct, I never imagined it would coincide with the death of Kobe Bryant. The profound sadness I felt over the death of Kobe Bryant reminded me of how incredibly devastated I felt about the untimely passing of […]
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Constructing Models of Student Well-being with Dr. Soutter Horton
In the Progressive Pedagogy group, we recognize superb, innovative educators and their classroom innovations. Today, we feature Dr. Annie Soutter Horton at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, who tells us about her research, classroom innovations, and collaboration with Professor Billy Osteen. Dr. Soutter Horton graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Psychology and […]
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Inspiring Book: The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University
This weekend I read a fascinating book that I want to recommend a book to anyone in higher education thinking about how we can make our institutions truly engaged with all of the different students on our campuses. This book is inspiring on many levels. And it is tough and realistic. The book is by […]
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Preparing for Public Facing Writing in the Composition Classroom with Professor Johnson
In HASTAC’s Progressive Pedagogy group, we share innovative teaching strategies and activities happening across higher education. Our commitment to public-facing work is shared by Professor Leslie C. Johnson at Lansing Community College where she teaches Composition I and II. In her Composition II classroom, Professor Johnson has students practice the genre of academic essay and […]
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Theory Into Practice and the Interdisciplinary Work of Julie Thompson Klein
Along with Professor Bruce Janz, I am honored to be part of a special volume of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, “Engaging and Extending the Work of Julie Thompson Klein.” Our article for this volume is called “Theory Into Practice: Julie Thompson Klein’s Boundary Work and Institutional Change.” We focus especially on her work in Digital […]
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The Importance of Conversation to a Student
Being a senior in college, I would say I have lots of experience being a student. I have been in countless classes with countless teachers on countless subjects. I would also say that I am a pretty good student. Until college, I had no idea what the letter B even looked like on a report […]
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Concluding a Course with a Collaborative Public Project: Keywords for Literary Studies
This blog describes how I organized my Introduction to Multicultural Literature course around a collaborative, public final project. Rather than a traditional final paper, the course concludes with students co-authoring a digital glossary of Keywords for Literary Studies. What follows is a lightly edited version of my remarks for the Digital Pedagogy Roundtable at MLA […]
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Ed Tech in History Teaching- Where to Start?
This fall I began working as a TA for a History course at my university. One of the opportunities we have as TAs is that we lead our own discussion sections. As a former English and Portuguese teacher I quickly noticed variations in teaching styles. I was an EFL teacher in Brazil for six years, and my job welcomed games, songs, […]
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Learning how to Strengthen Communities with Prof Osteen
Today on Progressive Pedagogy, Professor Billy Osteen, Associate Professor of Community Engagement at the University of Canterbury, reflects on the devastating earthquakes that hit Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010 and 2011. What he witnessed of student strength, power, organization, and community care informed his proposal and design for the course “Strengthening Communities through Social Innovation.” […]
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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 […]